How to stop a stalker?

[AngelusOfEorzea]

Sorry to hear that. You've got a lot of good advice from the other players here. Keep filing reports with the GM. I cannot stand people like that.

[CYoung187]

File a stalking report to your local police station and forward to Square Enix (signed paper letter, return receipt) a copy of that. It will be assured they will think twice about do that again in their IRL.

Some police officer somewhere will be bashing their head against a wall. Keep contacting in game support, I imagine they could easily take care of this.

[SummonerSenah]

Since you're in different FCs now, see if your FC leader will close the FC house to non-members. Then you'd have at least one place where you couldn't be bothered. Outside of that, take friends with you and have them report your stalker, too. And try to ask strangers, too. You don't have to be the one being harassed to report someone for harassment as long as you witness it. So people nearby seeing you being stalked can report as well. The more complaints filed against that person, hopefully the faster the issue will be taken care of.

[AnaviAnael]

Also, see if your FC mates will file complaints as well. If he's constantly at the house, technically he's harassing your FC too. The more people who complain, the better chance GMs will take it seriously.

[kidvideo]

how about "btw, i'm a dude irl & in my 30's... so... what's up?"

[Cherie]

It's hard to know if a harassment report has done anything since SE doesn't share what it does with the person who submitted it.

I have heard of suspensions happening from them.

I think that one person is joking that mentioned this, but you could try telling them you are a guy (even if that isn't the case). If they have heard you in vent that might not work.

Other than that, if you still have friends in your old fc, you could tell them about it. Perhaps they would control their member, even if you aren't in that fc now, they wouldn't want their fc to look bad I'd imagine.

[DoctorPepper]

Best suggestion I've seen in this thread is pretend you're a guy. If that doesn't work then he's just harassing you for the hell of it. If you sent him pictures or confessed your love for him at some point then you're screwed and will just have to deal with it.

I highly doubt SE considers this harassment, it's just emotes at this point and they don't actually effect you unless you let it. Maybe your best option is to lighten up a little and ignore it.

[NovaUltimatum]

The irony here is, posting tips to trick the stalker aren't going to work if he's reading this thread.

[Cherie]

I highly doubt SE considers this harassment, it's just emotes at this point and they don't actually effect you unless you let it. Maybe your best option is to lighten up a little and ignore it.

That may be true but, the thing I think is important is the harassing guy's intentions. This kind of blatant fixation is harassment in my opinion. His intent *is* to harass. Since it's willful, correct me if I'm wrong, but this kind of bothering is against the rules. The OP already blacklisted him. He quite certainly knows he is blacklisted and that is why he is emoting instead (since you can see emotes even from a blacklisted person - I've tested this). He is trying to get around being blacklisted. This shows he know he is harassing.

[DoctorPepper]

That may be true but, the thing I think is important is the harassing guy's intentions. This kind of blatant fixation is harassment in my opinion. His intent *is* to harass. Since it's willful, correct me if I'm wrong, but this kind of bothering is against the rules. The OP already blacklisted him. He quite certainly knows he is blacklisted and that is why he is emoting instead (since you can see emotes even from a blacklisted person - I've tested this). He is trying to get around being blacklisted. This shows he know he is harassing.

While I agree with you I don't think SE will handle it in the same manner. People spam job abilities on random people in cities, spam emotes on random people in cities. None of that is considered harassment but the only reason somebody would do it is to harass another person. I'm sure his persistent confessions of love could be considered harassment but that's why they implemented the blacklist, so people could handle those situations without the need for support to get involved.

If I'm being perfectly honest, I think the OP needs to lighten up and ignore the person. Half the reason he's so persistent is because it gives him their attention and that's what they want. Once he realizes he's wasting his time and getting no attention he will go away.