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Re: Trial accounts, restrictions and harrasment - oh my...

#340970
From: Matthew
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 19:53
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report each toon that does the griefing   they might use trial accounts but 
unless they are using a hide an isp program   their ISP comes back to the 
same logon not matter what account it used

I also think there is an add-on that you can ignore or filter whisper and 
chats from a certain level toon  not sure I have to look it up


"IYM" <"S U N risr"@optonline.net> wrote in message 
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> hey there - Have a bit of a quandary I thought I'd get some advise to...
>
> Over the last several days, our guild and members has been subjected to 
> harassment from various level 1 toons.  We are unsure if this person is a 
> former guild member, or someone that feels a member did them wrong or 
> what - but is is clear this person is unhappy with the guild... lol
>
> The tactics are it is always a level 1 toon, usually a hunter.  He spams 
> every member of the guild as they come on and stay on with whispers (until 
> he is ignored) by using the "who" and typing in the guild name to see all 
> online members.  He spams trade with derogative things about the guild 
> and/or individual guild members.  He obviously knows enough about the 
> guild that he knows inside information either as a former guild member or 
> acting on behalf of one.  He uses a hunter so that he can name the pet 
> something like the guild master's toons name and something bad. For 
> example if the Gm was "joe", some recent examples are "Joesmoms" 
> "joesaprick" etc, (you get the picture).  this goes on for about an hour, 
> then he disappears for about 15 minutes and it all starts all over again 
> with a different toon as people have him blocked by then, and now they 
> start getting whispers again.  It's obvious that during this time, he's 
> deleting and creating the new toon.  This went on most of the day 
> yesterday as well.
>
> Now, to get the obvious out of the way - This person has some obvious 
> mental issues to keep this going, has no life and yes, we have submitted 
> tickets to Bliz, but nothing.
>
> We have new guildies and they are being whispered with derogative things 
> too.  I;'m sure these people don't want to deal with this crap, and it 
> makes it hard to make a good impression trying to deal with this.
>
> Now to the meat and potatoes of my post:
>
> This person would have to be a complete and utter moron to use thier 
> regular account to do these character creations and deletions, so we are 
> assuming that they are being done on a trial account.  Would it not be 
> more beneficial to everyone, if say below level 10 *on a trial account 
> only*, you cannot join a guild, participate in trade chat, and/or other 
> type of restrictions that would prevent abuse?  Also would it not slow or 
> reduce hackers if they put a 100g mail restriction on lower than level 10 
> trial accounts?  Does anyone below level 10 on a trial account need more 
> than 100g, to be able to post in trade, join guilds, ect. anyway? 
> dunno...very frustrating.   Bliz can't find gold hackers, so I doubt they 
> can find this person.  It'd be great if they do and suspend the persons 
> account, but I doubt it.  We'd figure they'd give up by now but alas, no 
> avail.  This person REALLY is sick and deranged to spend days and hours 
> and an entire weekend doing this.  Crazy people out there...
>
> Any suggestions on what the next step should be?  I'm afraid of losing 
> some potential new people who are really good raiders who may be great 
> additions to the guild....If bliz can't do anything, I'm at a loss... 
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