Help - I am a newbie - Not sure if I was Harrassed?

i'm actively trying to start a list of people to ban from all of our lands for just this sort of behavior.

go here http://secondlife.informe.com/viewtopic.php?t=16 and note his avatar name and wut he did. it's out of SL so i don't think you can get in trouble for listing it there. i'm going to list all the avatars i've banned from my land (only 2) and from all of my friends lands (lots more than that, i assure you), when i get time.

my husband is the creator of that website, but never really did anything with it. if it is used for this only, that is fine by us.

whatever it takes to keep stupid creepy people from bothering nice gamers. especially newbies. that's really irritating and gross.

sorry that happened. but i'd say a good rule is that if it's something that makes you unconfortable, it's probably wrong (for yo, at least) and you should flee the scene and ignore those types of people. good luck and welcome to Second Life.

It was behaviour like this and the actions recounted in the OP that caused me to resign my membership in the Mentors. They had begun letting anybody in En Masse, Not checking thier BG, and Not training them and there was no Monitoring, or Disciplinary mechanisms in place. There were several nasty incidents of verified mentors griefing new people, stealing from them, organizing Harassment against groups within SL. I won't recount the Final Incident that made me resign, But Having seen that on the part of a pair of mentors, I have to say it is entirely plausible to me that the person claiming to be a mentor in the OP was indeed a member of the group.

Right now, LL has cut back many of the programs in place to help both new, and existing players. A group like the mentors IS needed. In it's early times it was an Ideal addition to SL's orientation and support systems. There IS a place for the mentors, But the group Needs to be brought back under Control.

I may be wrong, and this abuser may Not have been a mentor at all, but this incident, coupled with past performances by Real Mentors shows the need for Closer scrutiny.

Angel.

Naw, this guy is of course a jerk, very annoying. But he's obviously about as subtle as a piano dropping from the tenth floor on your head. Even a newborn newbie can obviously smell this rat from great distance, as she just came here to confirm her suspicion. This guy is not very good (understatement) at fooling women into trusting him, and even if he does succeed, the best 'reward' he will ever get for his efforts is to see 'Ruth' naked. Big deal. We've all seen that the first time we played around with appearance. It's pathetic. He should definitely be kicked out, because people like that give us, the people in SL, a bad rep. But dangerous? No.

The guy your mother did warn you about is the seemingly friendly guy who invests, if needed for months, in building a trusted relationship with you. Who listens to you, doesn't abuse the first piece of personal information, who understands you like nobody else. Who slowly isolates you from all those other people he convinces you are bad for you. That guy won't strike until he has all the RL information he needs about you, whether it is how and where to kidnap you and keep you as his sex slave until he discards your body, or just how to milk you for as much money as he can, leaving you bankrupt.

The guy with the horny face is annoying but essentially harmless in an online environment. It's the guy (or girl!) with the friendly face you should be careful about.

Hmm he obviously wasn't a mentor then.
Reminds me of when one of my lvl 1 WoW chars was running to the main town to collect armor & stuff mailed to him by alts. A good looking young lady Mage pulled me up and asked for my clothes item by item, "cool she's going to enchant them for me" she laughed and ran off with them

My stock response to that one is.....(prepares to be AR'd)

WOW really...if its that big then I suggest you stick it up your a** and F**k yourself

Bats eyelashes sweetly

I would have said,"Sorry but I really don't have time to do it 6 times......"

THAT is exactly MY kind of answer....the other day I was hanging around Help Island trying to, well, maybe help some people and that ended with some gits spouting inane chat-up lines too....I just tp'ed away after muting them. I would have WANTED to say the above, but problably NOT on Help Island...

My favorite comeback ever:

You're <insert ridiculous and innacurate number here> inches??

I find that hard to swallow....

Hm, did she just want to see your char nekkid or...was she a closet cross dresser?

@Fiona Branagh: I want one!! With sound!!!! I always try to improvise on this, but to have the proper anim...yay!

Just because someone has a tag, it doesn't mean anything. I have a custom group for myself just to make my own.

I remember meeting greeters and mentors on Help Island when I first signed up, and they were really helpful. I think the new help island looks better and probably teaches you more than the old ones did, but I miss the old setup.

Hi - I would laugh it off if he hadn't told me he was a mentor. The fact that I wanted to learn from a mentor was why I was slightly shocked and annoyed. Trust me - I have met some real weirdos in the real world, lol.

A female friend of mine carries a pair of scissors. She pulls them out, the jerks tend to leave her alone.

lol - I have a sword , but i can't seem to use it, lol

hehe - maybe someone needs to script a Bobbitmaster 5000 Knife with plenty of green spam identifying itself.


"Bobbitmaster 5000 has begun a search for prim parts to remove .... waiting ..."

Oh yes. We can sell them inworld and get that Guy from the TV shows..."Be Dialing People! Only 500,000 left. And if you order now you get a limited edition Beanie Baby Avatar".

that would be a Castrated Beenie Baby

Or would it be Neutered?

Not to detract from the OP (for whom I am sorry had this experience), but...

damn that's a great t-shirt slogan.

LOL

I'm really sorry this happened to you.

I was harassed only once in SL, and it was in a combat sim by 2 griefer pigs. I know a lot of people like to brush this aside and say it's silly to be offended by harassment in SL, because there is no real danger to it, but it can certainly be a disturbing thing to go through nonetheless.

I don't want SL to be policed to heavily. I think we as residents should learn to take care of ourselves, and each other in situations like this. IM me in world, and I would be happy to teach you how to deal with people like this in the future.