As the organizer of a community group for Hauki Seeks Manor, I'm at my wits' end when it comes to dealing with griefers. It's really the typical stuff going on--piggies being stolen and notes being taken from the bulletin board--but it's gotten out of hand. We had over 30 piggies in our building (we have 19 floors plus a lobby) but are now down to under 10. Our bulletin board used to be regularly covered with 5-10 notes at a time, but now it's almost always blank because of someone raiding it as soon as anything is (re)posted.
We knew who was behind the griefing at first (someone who lives outside the neighborhood, of course), but now it seems that he's not the only one doing it. Lately there's been another outsider who's been trying to trick newbies into letting her into their apartment so that she can steal their belongings.
I know most people aren't open to the idea of locking the neighborhood to outsiders (even though I think that would be wonderful, because people who don't live there really have no business to be there unless they're invited in by a friend), and I know any mechanism that would let us punish these people would just get abused... So instead of coming up with something that would let us directly stop or punish the actions, my idea is something that would let us know exactly who is doing this crap and what they're doing! I want some kind of "surveillance" mechanism that would tell us who took piggies from our building and when or who cleared the notes from the bulletin board and when. If we could only have some irrefutable proof, then I think it would be much, much easier to confront the griefers about it or be able to file abuse reports.
I know there are going to be piggynappers who are quick to respond, "But it's legal to take pigs! Anything in public places is fair game!" I don't want to illegalize pig capturing. But it is NOT fair game for you to come in and ruin the communities that we work hard to create just for marginal profit or for your own twisted satisfaction. It is NOT fair game when it takes no effort to wipe the bulletin board clean but it takes us all a lot of tender love and care to write our notes and post them. FAIR GAME would be a game where it's equally easy for us to thwart you as it is for you to thwart us. If we could just have some kind of accountability, I think that would be a big step towards making Glitch a fairer game for communities who want nothing more than to share gifts, notes, and piggies with their neighbors in peace.
Thoughts?
Berskie