Quote Originally Posted by Steelbreaker25 View Post
That's not what hearsay is. Not only this it not a court preceding, but hearsay is generally using what Person C heard Person B say about Person A as evidence. In the redditor's post, they talked more about the systems in place (of which only the wedding ring teleport is incorrect, I think), and used the experience of others and themselves as examples, although not extensively. There were no accusations thrown around
You are correct that this is not a court, yet the term is used outside legal settings according to this: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/hearsay

Apologies if my English was off, I will edit it to better reflect my intent.

And you are correct that in the original un-edited version of the Reddit post there were no direct accusations, but in further edits and in the replies to that topic OP states:
Edit: We are aware that there's an option to report for this behavior, but after a group of friends and I reported a stalker who harrassed our friend, nothing came off it. He continued harassing her (and eventually some of us) for weeks, until she quit and he got bored, and he's still playing this game, seemingly unhindered and unpunished. Maybe this is an issue with EU GMs, but they did not take this serious at all.

Edit 2: Yes, she also reported them, it wasn't JUST 3rd party reports.
But to who? Who can I go to after GMs do not protect us? I can't exactly meet with YoshiP himself and say "Please hardware ban this person". To whom and how can I escalate this?
To me that is a direct accusation that the EU GM team will not help those who report against bad player behavior. Reddit OP did not lie about a single function that currently exists in-game and through the Lodestone, and if it had just been a post going over the potential for abuse of those systems it wouldn't merit comment because they'd be right.

Then you have the quote the article published pulled:
"I love this game dearly, but it's an MMO, and stalkers and harassment is [sic] plentiful," the Reddit user wrote in the initial post. "I've heard so many horror stories, had to console friends who've had to deal with it, and found myself in this situation a few times as well."
If they're telling the truth the system is broken. If they're lying they are potentially hurting the game by maligning it.