Option to privatize or opt-out of lodestone displaying character. Show your support!

[Reinha]

You can blacklist players, as long as you are not in a duty, or in a number of other instaced areas, and it will do nothing to keep them from seeing you or being able to mess with you, just sending messages or other requests to you.
The blacklist system as it is needs work. I've seen plenty of disagreements in parties where it could be solved by blacklisting, particularly the people who have extremely long macros with sounds in them. If you don't like that you have to leave the instance, blacklist them, and then go back into the instance, which is a lot of work as well as in DF you are going to take a 30 minute ban on queueing.

and this is all besides the fact that blaclisting is per character, so it can be side stepped by making a new character, and then going to a major city to harass the player. There's no way to currently deal with this since things are treated as a per-character basis instead of account wide. If someone wants to they can make as many alternate level 1 characters as they want to harass you, and you cannot do anything about it until each character send their first chat message to you.

And how is tracking the perp on the lodestone an upgrade compared to using the blacklist feature?

[VerdeLuck]

And how is tracking the perp on the lodestone an upgrade compared to using the blacklist feature?

It's not, but there needs to be an overhaul on both features since both are entirely awful for dealing with abuse. Both the Blacklist and the Lodestone do basically nothing to stop someone from finding you, and spamming level 1 alts at you until you either delete your character or they get bored.
Both need heavy overhauls and the privacy options are completely insufficient for a modern game this size.

[Reinha]

It's not, but there needs to be an overhaul on both features since both are entirely awful for dealing with abuse. Both the Blacklist and the Lodestone do basically nothing to stop someone from finding you, and spamming level 1 alts at you until you either delete your character or they get bored.
Both need heavy overhauls and the privacy options are completely insufficient for a modern game this size.

I agree. Blacklisting someone should blacklist all characters on the entire account, and only show a snapshot of the name+server of the blacklisted character from the time it was added to the blacklist (this would prevent blacklist from being used as a tracking tool).

I'm not sure what other things can be done about harassment done with lvl 1 trial characters but being able to hide yourself on the lodestone before changing your name would be a sure way to prevent that.