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Big problem for young wizards.

AuthorMessage
Survivor
Oct 01, 2008
8
I know you see it. Bullying and harassment in the game, mostly on females. Its a problem for the young players to be exposed to this. Menu chat does help a lot with that, but what if they play on their parents "open chat" account, now they are exposed to what some of the wizards of Ravenwood really do. I have seen a great deal of this around the Spiral. Most you reading this message will say to yourself "It's completely normal, everyone does it eventually" well that probably means your one of them.
Another problem would be "heated arguments". One wizard joking around and the other saying some harsh words around the chat filter, sometimes to impress another player. If you see this, it would help a lot if you try to cut in and stop it. Try saying a random joke to get their minds off of the subject. I have added people who have been treated poorly from their "significant other" in the game. And they all agree with me on this subject.
Please, if you see any form of bullying and harassment, or know anyone who does bully or harasse people, tell them to stop and tell them the causes of them doing it. Or come here and comment, or don't comment, but we need to make this game as safe as can be. And that only can be started by us, The wizards, or players, of Wizard101.
Thank you for taking the time to read this

Sincerely yours,
Taylor MythFriend

Moderator
We have also addressed this in our post "What happens when I get Reported" at https://www.wizard101.com/posts/list/28843.ftl

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.

When you report someone, or you are reported, a message is sent directly to Mr Lincoln that includes the chat logs of everything that was said before and after that report.

Mr Lincoln then reads the log and assess the situation. He determines how bad the offense was, looks up prior offenses for the reported individual, and based on that assessment he issues sanctions such as muting or banning and sends an email to the offending account explaining the violation and the sanctions.

If the report was falsely made, that is determined as well, and the player who made the false report is investigated as to whether or not they have made previous false reports. False reports are just a egregious as valid ones, and similar sanctions can be levied against repeat offenders of false reporting.

Everything that a player enters into the chat window is logged. These larger chat logs are also routinely checked for those infractions that are not reported.

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”).

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