Suggestion for GMs in handling reports of player threats of self harm

[hagare]

This is why I dont really like MMO's anymore. Sometimes, I feel we all forget we are playing a game, which is supposed to be an interface in which you have fun -- a small escape from our daily lives.

I think it is an intense invasion of privacy to assume that a private company will track your IP address, inform your internet provider and ask them to divulge your physical location to the police so that they may visit your home, over what you allegedly said or did in an online game. Big Brother much?

Personal opinions/issues aside from the matter at hand, just my 2 cents.

And sometimes people forget that there's a very real person behind an avatar.
And sometimes people forget that other people's situation can be radically different than your own.