Sexual harassment

[Enla]

I'm not sure if I should feel gladdened by the amount of people who have clearly never dealt with emotional manipulators and narcissists in their lives. Even if it's to the point that stating that blocking and reporting is a catch all solution to a situation involving people who are clearly enmeshed in each others lives. Because at least they haven't experienced it themselves, which is a net positive in my book. Or conversely saddened by the lack of empathy for those who /have/ who often meet with the very same responses and thus fall further into isolation because of it.

As others have stated, blocking really only works on the random creeps who approach you out of the blue who you can tell to get bent with little to no consequences. It doesn't work on people who will happily emotionally manipulate and isolate dozens of people. Treating some like kings and queens, while showing their very worst sides to a select few who then are unlikely to be believed if they ever come forward. Because 'x isn't like that', 'x would never do something like that', 'how could you do this to x?', 'x is the real victim' and so on to the point of ad nauseum. You can't block every flying monkey that comes your way when someone is determined to punish you for daring to have a spine and slander your reputation to anyone who is willing to hear it. Which coupled with the threat of losing friendships and manipulation by the abuser often keeps victims quiet.

Should SE have a bigger role in punishing people for these actions? Frankly I'd rather they just be more serious about looking into reports rather than letting them fester, for reasons stated on other pages. They can't do anything about matters stated off site or out of game but when they have clear evidence of harassment within the game itself it would be nice if they were quicker to respond to it, if at all. My main beef with this whole situation is the amount of people who can't seem to understand the difference between blocking Random Joe Blow who just DM'd you and blocking an actual, long time abuser. The latter of which is nowhere near as simple as people are making it out to be.