I've noticed that while in wizards, not a lot but occasionally, I get these people asking for personal information. Sometimes I just brushed it off, but then they started asking for phone numbers, etc. One of them said, "That's just how to get to know one another, right?" No. Obviously in games that is NOT how you get to know a person. In games, you shouldn't want to get to know a person, just talk and have fun. Asking for ages and locations (where someone lives) is going over the boundary, but asking for phone numbers is way out there! I've reported and deleted people that ask for such things, but I would like to ask, or at least bring to the attention of the staff members here. I'm not trying to be overly dramatic but I think this is serious. I know people don't want their kids being stalked by perverts. I know that you can't ban people like that off of sites 'cause usually you have no way of telling unless they do something, but do you think that you could possibly pay a little more attention to it? I'm not saying that you don't because I wouldn't know, but I wanted to bring this up so you are aware of the situation. I'm getting fairly irritated, not to mention concerned, when the number of people asking for my phone number increases.
i know what you mean. some girl asked me out and i was like WHAT!!!??? theres so little you know about anyone in these games they could be 60 year old men looking for smaller children for all we know.
I really agree with you, i remember I had a group of friends who were "dating"
This seems really wrong to me because i believe these friends are no older then 13, and dating online? This is completely wrong too me and something should be done.
I've noticed that while in wizards, not a lot but occasionally, I get these people asking for personal information. Sometimes I just brushed it off, but then they started asking for phone numbers, etc. One of them said, "That's just how to get to one another, right?" No. Obviously in games that is NOT how you get to know a person. In games, you shouldn't want to get to know a person, just talk and have fun. Asking for ages and locations (where someone lives) is going over the boundary, but asking for phone numbers is way out there! I've reported and deleted people that ask for such things, but I would like to ask, or at least bring to the attention of the staff members here. I'm not trying to be overly dramatic but I think this is serious. I know people don't want their kids being stalked by perverts. I know that you can't ban people like that off of sites 'cause usually you have no way of telling unless they do something, but do you think that you could possibly pay a little more attention to it? I'm not saying that you don't because I wouldn't know, but I wanted to bring this up so you are aware of the situation. I'm getting fairly irritated, not to mention concerned, when the number of people asking for my phone number increases.
- Thanks so much for taking the time to read this
+ Samm
Hey Samm,
I agree But there is somethings i would like to add. One is you cant type numbers without open chat. I have noticed allot of kids on here with open chat and i think there should be something done about it. I do know that if you have open chat you have used some type of credit or debit card. i think when open chat is turned on a letter should be sent to the address without wizard101's name on it and addressed to the card holder. saying thank you for choseing Wizard101 as your game or something like that. then it should say you also have activaed open chat then it should go on to explain what it is. I have asked these kids "O: did you lie to your parents?" and they wil out right tell me that they did. or just went in and changed it them selfs with out their parents knowing. i do agree kids should not be giving out their phone numbers to strangers. but that is mostly on the parents to keep under controle. If they dont know about it then someone needs to tell them.
If you see somebody asking for personal information, you should immediately report them. It's against the rules, and I would imagine that the staff takes such infractions very seriously.
We appreciate that our players want to make Wizard City the best it can be, and we've placed the tools in your hand to report players for inappropriate behavior.
We ask that you use the reporting feature to identify truly egregious behavior, such as creative profanity (swearing around the filters), solicitation of usernames/passwords, predatory threats, racist comments and other such actions as outlined in the Terms of Use.
The old story of “the kid that cried wolf” has a lot of bearing in this situation and we trust that all reports received by players are valid and require support intervention.
Because false reporting can be construed and/or used as harassment of other players, we’d like to take a moment to ensure you are aware of what does NOT fall under the category of a reportable offense:
“S/he falsely reported me” or reporting someone for false reporting (2 wrongs don’t make a right)
“Won’t leave my house” (pick your friends wisely and avail yourself of the non-porting option)
“Being rude” (We’re sorry, we can’t enforce good manners. Use the ignore button liberally &/or change realms. It’s wholly up to you to choose to stay around someone that’s not nice to you.)
“Chain Stunning” (admittedly, it’s not much fun for the receiving team, but it’s not a violation of the game rules).
“Scamming” (KingsIsle will NEVER ask for treasure card(s) in exchange for a code. Trading “cards for codes” is done at the players’ own risk. Codes are either fully public or one time use)
“Spamming” (Although the Terms of Use mention spamming, it’s related to email/web posts. Yeah, it’s annoying in game and never of profound statement. Refer to “Being Rude”).
