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Article #340970Re: Trial accounts, restrictions and harrasment - oh my...
From: Matthew
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 19:53
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 news:imqo93$tgk$1@dont-email.me... > 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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