Abuse of the TOS. Loophole regarding griefing/trolling. Needs a solution.

[RoyalBeef]

No, that actually is stalking. Once it moves to private property it becomes tresspassing and/or breaking and entering.



If some people have the RP tag on, they are RPing. Just let them get on with it.

Stalking requires active harrassment. Just being there does not qualify as harrassment. I can sit in front of someone's house in my parking car all week if I want.

[kidalutz]

Stalking requires active harrassment. Just being there does not qualify as harrassment. I can sit in front of someone's house in my parking car all week if I want.

You can but the cops would harass you away.

[RoyalBeef]

You can but the cops would harass you away.

They'd ask for my ID and ask what I'm doing. That's about everything they can do.

[Hazmick]

Stalking requires active harrassment. Just being there does not qualify as harrassment. I can sit in front of someone's house in my parking car all week if I want.

No, you can't. The police would ask you to move on if the resident of the house was distressed by your continued presence.

If person A follows person B everywhere, for a prolonged period of time, even if they never say or do anything else to person B, person A is committing an offence by stalking.

[Kaethra]

Stalking requires active harrassment. Just being there does not qualify as harrassment. I can sit in front of someone's house in my parking car all week if I want.

According to my state's law, it doesn't require active harassment, but observation, monitoring, and surveillance. And does not even have to be done physically, but can be done electronically through electronic messages and other eletronic medium. Apparently my state is in the 21st century on this.

So not only are these people breaking TOS, but they are breaking actual state laws.

So my advice to the OP, keep recordings of this. SE may not take the evidence but your state will. Your state can subpoena SE for the owners' information of any characters involved and prosectute them.

This isn't some silly fun, stalking is serious. Royalbeef, this is not something to play around with, and the only reason I can see you defending this, is if you've done this to RPers or others in the past. I recommend you stop. You can face serious penalties.

[Gula]

Whose Line Is It Anyway?

Warrior of Light who is upset by trivial things

As someone who actually works in law enforcement - I can tell you that you will be laughed out of whichever police station you decide to visit with your "evidence". No one is going to take you seriously when you claim that someone on a video game is "stalking" you unless they have actually made threats to you. It doesn't matter what your state law says - those laws are primarily to make it easier to prosecute cases of ACTUAL stalking. Please don't waste our time with this rubbish unless you want to get laughed at.

Kinda rude to openly laugh at someone no matter how seemingly random their distress. Is this why cops are seen in such a negative light these days?

[Kaethra]

Kinda rude to openly laugh at someone no matter how seemingly random their distress. Is this why cops are seen in such a negative light these days?

I question the validity of their claim. Besides any LEO that 'laughs' at any sort of distress would be out of a job.

[Shadha]

I question the validity of their claim. Besides any LEO that 'laughs' at any sort of distress would be out of a job.

Just because someone's in distress doesn't mean they're right to feel that way. These are people who deal with things like murder cases. "Someone who doesn't know me in real life followed me in a video game" seems like it very well could earn a few laughs.

And again, we're talking about a case of griefing here. It wasn't charming, but it wasn't stalking. I was literally there when it happened. Chill out.