Guild Wars 2

So, I was on a Skype call today while playing with a friend. We were exploring Lion’s Arch and found Weyandt’s Revenge and were going through it. While I messed up one part and had to work my way back, she made it to almost the end where you have to pick between three water slides to jump through. As she wasn’t sure which one to go into, she stood there for a while and waited for me to rejoin her.

While waiting, another player next to her asked her which one to jump through. Upon saying she didn’t know, he began saying he reported her for selling gold and the like. Another player, both being in the same guild and race, came up and beginning telling her the same thing and telling her to stop spamming and that he hoped she got banned.

This was all happening while I was trying to get back through, with me being about at the point where spikes go in and out of the walls. When she moved away from them and picked a hole to jump through, one of them continued to follow her. I felt helpless, only able to hear her through call while she grew more and more distressed to the point of tears as he wouldn’t leave her alone and started to say incredibly crude, inappropriate, and demeaning things to her. I’d quote them here, but that would go against the forum rules. She left via waypoint, and by the time I caught up with her she was incredibly upset and had to leave for a while to recover.

Unfortunately, her distress made it impossible for her to recall the player’s names, merely their guild tag and what race they were, nor did she report them as she was more focused on just getting away from them.

Harassment is something that is just unacceptable and I was wondering if there was some way I could use the information about them I have to get in contact with someone perhaps of the guild or just someone who I can report them to? I don’t want it to go unpunished when they’re just going to continue to think it’s okay to harass and upset other players.

MirroredReality.3251:

Another player, both being in the same guild[..], came up and beginning telling her the same thing and telling her to stop spamming and that he hoped she got banned.

This is the important and glossed over part of your message. Why was she accused of spamming?

MeanPi.6025:

MirroredReality.3251:

Another player, both being in the same guild[..], came up and beginning telling her the same thing and telling her to stop spamming and that he hoped she got banned.

This is the important and glossed over part of your message. Why was she accused of spamming?

There isn’t anything glossed over, actually. She wasn’t spamming at all. The only thing she was doing was responding via the ‘say’ feature to the player repeatedly saying he was reporting her for gold selling. Which itself is ridiculous because combined we don’t even have 5 gold. His fellow guild member joined and added in to the harassment while she tried to discern what was actually going on and figure out why this person suddenly decided to ‘report her’ for something she hadn’t done. If anything, he was the one spamming by repeating going: “reported you” and “stop trying to sell me gold”.

Tell your friend not to worry. ANet checks the chat logs before issuing any bans. If she wasn’t selling any gold in chat, she won’t get banned or suspended. (And the trolls who falsely reported her, although I doubt they actually did anything, would face action if they made false reports.)

Thank you for the level-headed response.

She, you, I and everyone should take this whole situation as a life lesson: Sometimes it’s best to keep ones mouth shut, escpecially on the internet. This leads to more life lessons that improve “quality of life”:

It’s easiest to learn something when you totally mess it up, which your friend did and I live by that rule. Run away in terror and later with a clear mind one can dissect the situation, realize what they did wrong and yes, it’s one sided thought focusing on oneselfs actions not other peoples actions towards them (not taking down player names, responding incorrectly to the taunts allowing victimization) and learn how to react in the future. Fear and harrasment make us stronger due to rational thought after the fact.

Ask your friend if she was in that same situation now, what would she do different? If it’s drastically different then what you posted, she learned a life lesson.

There is an option to report verbal abuse. Don’t know why they felt it was important to do what they did but they can get suspensions not your friend. As long as your friend did not ‘give as good as she got’ it would be clear to ANET what happened.
Advice for next time is that when people start to say I’m reporting you for things you did not do, block them.

Actually there is no need for her to recall the names
As said by a previous poster, ANet keeps track of chatlogs…file a report and time around when this happened. ANet should be able to find the specific chat and take proper action

She could have just muted them instantly. And I cannot stress this enough, she cannot let something like that get to her head.
And honestly your toon next to them wouldn’t make a difference.

And by the way, the right way is the one that looks like the entrance.

There is mean people everywhere. And maybe they simply had a gold seller harassing them in the last couple of days with a similar names to your friend. Maybe that’s why they did that.

Anyway, the best reaction is not letting that get to you. Its only word on a screen after all. She could had block them, so she would not see what they were saying after. A report of what they already said was easy after that.

Block them, report them. That’s pretty much all you can do. I know it’s annoying that the anonymity of the internet let’s people get away of these things, but that can’t be helped with how the internet works.

You should tell her to filter chat on map/guild/party only. Then block whoever whispers her if they are being scrubs. If I see scrubs like that in pvp I’ll pwn them for ya.

BTW, once you’ve made it through the dark room and must choose between 3 gaping holes with waterfalls, choose the one on the right. I hear the other 2 lead to death although I’ve never tried them. I instinctively chose the one on the right and later learned that was definitely the right choice.

Lazuli.2098:

BTW, once you’ve made it through the dark room and must choose between 3 gaping holes with waterfalls, choose the one on the right. I hear the other 2 lead to death although I’ve never tried them. I instinctively chose the one on the right and later learned that was definitely the right choice.

If you choose wrong you are revived at the top of the falls and can choose again. Don’t let the death thing fool you and wp out.