Sexual harassment

[Solarra]

Sexual Harassment is a problem yes... yes its bad. But the problem is when people don't bother to do anything about it.

I agree and I'm glad we are having this discussion now and looking at what we can do about it.
It's certainly not new and I don't imagine many people think it is. However, I think there has been a distinct shift in attitudes recently. When I was younger, harassment was something you were expected to deal with quietly on your own, people didn't talk about it much and when they did, victim-blaming was rampant (you'd be hard-pressed to get any support). Online abuse was something most of my friends avoided by not saying they were female or even pretending to be male.

I've already covered what I think we could do as a community in my first post, so the next question is,

Could Square do more?
Clearly the recent articles about The Moogle Post are not the sort of publicity the company wants.
I think there are a few issues that they could address:

- Make dropping someone from your Friends List automatically remove you from theirs.
This is a big one, if you change your character's name, the new name pops up on their list and it isn't hard to work out who you are.
- Make 'divorcing' someone mean their wedding ring either disappears from their inventory or is disabled, so they cannot teleport to you.
- Remove the ability from FC leaders to lock members out of the FC house, thereby cutting off access to personal rooms (which means affected members cannot leave the FC)
- Allow PS4 users to hide their ID (even if you make a new character, that shows who you are).
- Allow us to hide our ID on the Lodestone.
- Make black-listing someone mean they cannot teleport to you using the RAF crystal or contact you in any way.

From an earlier thread on the subject of the Friends List -

People not on your Friends List but who have you on their friends list can...
• Teleport to any estate you're associated with (personal, FC, apartment)
• Moogle mail you
• Teleport to the nearest aetheryte to you if you're a new adventurer

I think we've established that the most serious harassment tends to come from people who have posed as friends and gained someone's trust, so changing these things would help people deal with that sort of situation much more effectively than they can at present.

Edit: Since the new App will synch with your Friends List, I think it's even more important that Friends List removal only being one way should be looked at ASAP