Cancel wow account to solve harassment

#0 - Sept. 19, 2010, 2:15 a.m.
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will this work to solve an harassment problem?

1. cancel my wow account which will hopefully remove my characters name ( the one being harassed) from the harassing players (characters) friends list - my account is a 6 month one with about 3 months left on it

2. subscribe to wow again

3. before playing the game again - change the name of my character that is being harassed

4. wait till the name change occurs - blizz will notify me by email

5. logon to wow and start playing again and the harassing player will not have me on their friends list and my harassed character now has a new identity on my realm

will this work??
#21 - Sept. 19, 2010, 5:17 a.m.
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If you wish to remove yourself from someone's friend list, you can do so via Paid Faction Change or Paid Character change, Proudtouch. However, you should really place a petition, as some of the others have suggested.

I am seeing quite a bit of nay-saying here regarding harassment issues being handled by our Game Masters. I'd like to clarify a few things:

    -Never, ever respond to the player who is harassing you.
    -Place the individual on /ignore if possible. Report Spam is NOT a substitute for this.
    -If a player bypasses the ignore function, place a petition immediately including all involved character names. This is considered Ongoing Harassment, and is NOT tolerated


Given all of this, please also keep in mind that we do try to 'reform' such players. Not all of them learn from a warning or a short suspension, and most of them are likely to dissuade you from petitioning again by saying nothing has happened to them. If they are going to lengths to continue harassing you, it's not likely they'll be telling you the truth.

Keep in mind, as well, the nature of our Penalty Volcano - initial harassments by a player may only receive a warning, or a short-term suspension. But multiple reports will accrue and can lead to much harsher punishments, up to and including account closure. You can see more regarding our Penalty Policies below.

Account Penalties
http://us.blizzard.com/support/article/20221