I'm a in a group that takes shifts on Wickdoon Mood to tend the trees there. While on shift, a typical troublemaker became aggressive and raped my character. He went up behind my character moving rapidly back and forth. He then commented on the state of my ass after performing the action, and taunted me by laughing with the '3' key.
I was horrified, and I told only close friends about what happened. I had never used the 'abuse' system and was hesitant because of the nature of the abuse. Live chat finally encouraged me it report. When did, I recieved this message from staff:
"Thank you for your report. We have taken note and will keep aware of any further reports related to this player. I suggest that you block this player to keep them from harassing you. In the future please use the 'Report Abuse' right away so that we can see the context and what was said. Thank you."
The ToS state "...all of your activities in connection with the Service ... are automatically logged" and yet there are no records of the event, not in local, or private, or live help chat? Even worse was the insinuation that my rape report wasn't good enough to do anything except 'keep aware' of him until he abused someone else. I tried dismissing it as a mistake on behalf of staff for losing or erasing the logs, and assumed Tiny Speck only punished players who interfered with the game itself.
Then I learned Tiny Speck suspended a player for saying 'rape' as a joke. I am furious. If a rape joke is a suspendable offense, a rape act should be worthy of a ban. My rapist is permitted to walk around free to taunt me, while a controversial character makes a dumb joke and gets the boot. I joined glitch because a friend told me it was not a place where I could get murdered, assaulted, or raped. Now every time I see my rapist online I want to play less and less, and I'm now at the point of quitting.
So I want justice. Either way Glitch is going to lose a player. Tiny Speck can either ban the rapist troll (they know who it is), or forfeit a long time benefactor and contributer.
Since glitch is one big community, I would like to appeal to that community now. If I've ever traded or cooperated with you, partied with you, had an engaging conversation or in any way treated you with kindness, please stand up for me now in the comments and vouch for my honesty and good character.
I cannot continue to play in the same game as the person who raped my character. If Tiny Speck really wants to make a statement about rape, punish the actual rapists, not just fools who make dumb jokes.