Ethel mermania wrote:Trwce and finger the IP and Call the local cops. That is their job.
Look, I think yo ur intentions are good. There just are a lot of ramifications you are not considering. You are not a lawyer or law enforcement and neither is the moderation team. To expect them to act as one opens the site up to liability issues in jurisdictions all over the freaking world.
A more reasonable approach would be to ask the site to have his maxNess contact his legal team to suggest potential resolution to this issue
Oh, I know that there are issues involved that I don't fully understand. I'm not necessarily arguing for all of the above. I understand that the NS Mods understand their problems more than I do.
There are victims who have the RL names, IPs, phone numbers, addresses, and social media platforms of their harassers. This sounds optimistic, right? Surely that can accomplish something. However, again, the police still often can't do anything about it, because jurisdiction. Do you know how hard it is to prosecute someone in another country? Even another state is problematic. Just like on NS, where they can make a new nation and contact the victim, those harassers could fly right over and no-one would be the wiser until it was potentially too late.
My intentions stem from the frustration of seeing so many people victimized. I know that in one case this resulted in physical harm from harasser to victim.
In the end, the victim has to leave the game because he or she never knows what will happen next. He or she is aware that their harasser could be watching everything they say in public, whether it be on forum or RMB. Heck, they don't even need to have a nation to do that! As is often the case RL, ultimately the only one who walks away without problems or conscience is the harasser. And that's pretty much the end of that.
Ultimately the NS Mods/Admins are the only ones who can devise a workable solution, or decide they still can't do anything. All we can do is draw attention to the issue and ask them to help us. We can't make them do anything.