Ongoing harassment/Doxxing threats

[bezal]

Just ignore them, turn off game sounds when you are not in an instance i do it 99% of the time anyways and if the emote spam is bugging you that much buy a new copy of the game and start over on a new server already spent 100s on the game whats a few more sometimes a fresh start is all you can do. With that said i don't see how one person can harass you that much 90% of this games content is instanced and odds of running into 1 person out of the thousands on your data center is extremely low heck most of my time is spent idle in my house with the door locked so no one get in waiting for a queue to pop or pf to fill

[NessaWyvern]

So you'd trust only one side then? Because who knows, could be telling the truth.

Even if Barafox is telling the truth, he could have slanted the evidence to make it look worse, see my post earlier on this thread for examples of how OP could have done those things, without it being as bad as how Barafox puts it.

Also I think Barafox is technically breaking ToS on the forums by calling out, and saying negative things about a person that can be easily identified, (and can cause an additional witch-hunt to this person) whereas OP hasn't called out anyone in particular besides squeenix GMs for not doing something about the harassment.

Also depending on where the harassment takes place, the GMs really can tell you that they can't do anything about it. For example, in linkshells. I got a response from a GM that they won't punish harassment in linkshells, as you can just leave the link shell (was a long time ago, so I don't quite remember the response).
Since you can't tell who invites who to a link shell, if you have someone on the inside inviting the harasser to linkshells OP is in, stuff can get icky quick with the GMs not doing anything about it.

[AxlStream]

Man all this happening on Crystal huh? Hmmmmm.

[Izanagi_Fiaresu]

No, I wouldn't trust only one side. But the forums have a habit with these kinds of threads. 99% of the time, if there's a "GOTCHA" post in a thread like this, the forums usually go all in with that post and never question if THAT person is lying or just straight making stuff up. Which, if I may be a bit brutally honest here, barafox's post seems like a load of crap and seems very tuned for the explicit purpose of undermining this thread. The fact it is his ONLY post, also makes me sit here and question its validity and possibly even question if they are said harasser.

Also, If the OP is truly so well know and feared for being this horrible, bragging, harasser and that there are so many people who know this to the point screenshots are passed around regularly to warn others of OP's nature as barafox says he is. Well then I ask, where are these people? Surely they would come surging forth to call OP out if he's truly so well known for being like this. Or the forums would just laugh him off the stage because they know he is this horrible harasser.

And then there's JackHachet's post, cap stoned with this little tidbit.



So yeah, I'm more inclined to believe OP right now then the very questionable assertions that OP is some horrible uber troll, that is so infamously well known that entire discords for Maetus, and apparently this is slowly growing to be an entire data center (A data center I am on!) knows about his behavior and are actively warning everyone they can of OP's behavior, from someone who's first and only post seems to be here to undermine the thread. Yeah, gonna say that this 'other side' sounds a little iffy to me.

Is there some things in OP's post that make me question him? Yes, absolutely! As some have pointed out, there's a few things in regards to the authority's responses to this that seem off but, this doesn't mean I'm not going to outright think OP is lying completely, nor am I going to instantly trust the "GOTCHA" post as some seem to have here.

That's just my two cents though.

Or it coulda been an alt account of the OP. (Or his wife) trying to drum up sympathy for him. Be skeptical of everything

[Gula]

I already have, because the individual in question decided to demonstrate their reach by ordering pizza COD under my character's name. Scared the hell out of my wife. But that is good advice, thank you. Unfortunately, there wasn't much the local authorities could do on this end without the individual in question actually showing up to my house.

Oh, I missed this post. I think I've been baited into a massive troll thread. Because I remember early internet memes, this being one of them.

[StarRosie]

Or it coulda been an alt account of the OP. (Or his wife) trying to drum up sympathy for him. Be skeptical of everything

That sounds less like skepticism and more like paranoia.

[JunseiKei]

Cynical me is saying something smells. All I can really say is we can only take OP's word and it's painted entirely too blameless to the point I'd expect it on r/thathappened, namely because of this line in bold:

My former friend was having a rough time, and I bought the two of us a game called Magic: Workstation (older program, allows people to play Magic The Gathering with each other) at their request as a Christmas gift. Unknown to me, the registration code disclosed both my real name and town. Given that there are only two people in my entire city with my last name (myself and my wife), and the fact that I'm a homeowner, it was trivial for them to get the information.

Sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen, especially if this scenario is true, you have a case for emotional damages in the very least, given to lead to harassment within another game that is ongoing. If OP is speaking the truth, well, here's an idea to run with and see how far it can take you to possibly get this sorted.

[Izanagi_Fiaresu]

That sounds less like skepticism and more like paranoia.

I mean its all he said she said. No one is credible its the internet

[shaiel]

I don't see how posting on the forums about harassment solves anything. If anything it's escalated, because now someone replied that OP himself has been going around harassing people in the game. So really, now it's just drama. Can't the GMs just pull up logs rather than have people fight it out in the forums lol

[JoyfulSong]

Joyful Song of Mateus here. I run the Crystal Community Leaders Discord, along with having a few hands and voices in some several other communities.

I've been in the community since Stormblood, back when mateus was just starting. I've known Cal... basically since I started my period away from Balmung two years ago.
I don't USUALLY pop up here on the forums? But I saw this on /rSh*tpostFFXIV. I could have sworn this was some dumb post by a well known harasser (who is not Cal, but that diaster is a whole different story,) over here. Was pretty shocked to learn that the guy I've known so long is getting harassed like this.

OP and I aren't close, but I've known him and his personality long enough to know he doesn't DO grudges. When he mistakenly sent someone who brought a lot of drama to my FC, he apologized for ages, and hell, has recommended some of the best people I've had to my FC. When I needed aid with something, he was always one of the first people to offer help. He's been an absolute angel, to be perfectly honest, in the entire time I've known him.
I'm not saying it's impossible for Bara to be right.

But I VERY severely doubt it.

Shoot me a line, Bara. I'd be interested in the information you have concerning OP that's so damning.
Joy#4079

EDIT on 9/8/2021
SO IT TURNS OUT CAL IS IN FACT A GARBAGE CAN, AND IS A JERK. Eat shit, Cal, I put my whole reputation on the line for you.