Dear SE,
you stated a while ago that you want to move stronger against harassment in-game, and thus updated your ToS to specify harassment and griefing, which I applaude given the rise of such behavior over the last year or so.
There is an ongoing issue though in Frontline, reported to me by others before (I could hardly believe that kind of obscenity to happen) and now I became a target of it myself: Certain people get a kick out of making obscene emotes over fallen bodies. Very obscene and insulting things.
If that is not harassment of the highest order then I don't know what.
And as a former victim of rape honestly what I just witnessed someone doing there when I fell to the ground...
... I needed to log out of the game and recover for a while. I am still not fully recovered, and don't think I can play PvP, or the game in general for a while.
Give us a method to note down the name of people who do that and report them, and then BAN THEM.
Because right now you are allowing the worst kind of people, people who would probably commit all kinds of other atrocities, to get a kick out of behavior in PvP that if done on a normal sport field would send them not just off the field and banned for a long time, but in some countries to jail. And if someone in the military would do that to a fallen enemy or prisoner they would be kicked out and stand trial.
This is unacceptable, and by not allowing us to see who is doing this kind of incredibly toxic and hurtful behavior to then report it you are essentially becoming complicit by covering their identities and despicable acts.
ETA: As someone informed me here examining the harassing player reveals the name, but I think it would be good to give us a slightly better method to identify them -- including a bit after the act, in case someone is simply too shocked by what they experience (I know I was not in a state to right-click and examine while it happened).
And I think disabling emotes to prevent the worst types of such acts from happening would be also something to consider -- that, or at least to make it easy to identify perpetrators (even later on) for report and SE then to come down on anyone doing that REALLY hard. This goes way beyond simple name calling as it sometimes happens in DF and other unpleasant behavior. Things like these can (re-)traumatize people easily -- I know if this would have happened to me some time ago I would have been a candidate for some new therapy sessions to deal with the fallout.
Sexual harassment and symbolic sexual violence, including online, should never be allowed or made that easy to get away with.
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you stated a while ago that you want to move stronger against harassment in-game, and thus updated your ToS to specify harassment and griefing, which I applaude given the rise of such behavior over the last year or so.
There is an ongoing issue though in Frontline, reported to me by others before (I could hardly believe that kind of obscenity to happen) and now I became a target of it myself: Certain people get a kick out of making obscene emotes over fallen bodies. Very obscene and insulting things.
If that is not harassment of the highest order then I don't know what.
And as a former victim of rape honestly what I just witnessed someone doing there when I fell to the ground...
... I needed to log out of the game and recover for a while. I am still not fully recovered, and don't think I can play PvP, or the game in general for a while.
Give us a method to note down the name of people who do that and report them, and then BAN THEM.
Because right now you are allowing the worst kind of people, people who would probably commit all kinds of other atrocities, to get a kick out of behavior in PvP that if done on a normal sport field would send them not just off the field and banned for a long time, but in some countries to jail. And if someone in the military would do that to a fallen enemy or prisoner they would be kicked out and stand trial.
This is unacceptable, and by not allowing us to see who is doing this kind of incredibly toxic and hurtful behavior to then report it you are essentially becoming complicit by covering their identities and despicable acts.
ETA: As someone informed me here examining the harassing player reveals the name, but I think it would be good to give us a slightly better method to identify them -- including a bit after the act, in case someone is simply too shocked by what they experience (I know I was not in a state to right-click and examine while it happened).
And I think disabling emotes to prevent the worst types of such acts from happening would be also something to consider -- that, or at least to make it easy to identify perpetrators (even later on) for report and SE then to come down on anyone doing that REALLY hard. This goes way beyond simple name calling as it sometimes happens in DF and other unpleasant behavior. Things like these can (re-)traumatize people easily -- I know if this would have happened to me some time ago I would have been a candidate for some new therapy sessions to deal with the fallout.
Sexual harassment and symbolic sexual violence, including online, should never be allowed or made that easy to get away with.
Continue reading...