Question: If some stranger here at DU is PMing you and accusing you of saying or doing something

[Mike 03]

you didn't do, and keeps pestering you, is it against the rules to expose this person? I have no idea why I'm being pestered by this individual. I've managed to go more than six years here without any kind of private issue with a DUer. Never even put someone on "Ignore." But I don't like getting PMs from weirdos...

[azmouse]

1. Report it to the mods.

They can handle it.

[yewberry]

2. You can alert on the PM.

That would probably be the best way to go.

[Lithos]

3. You have several options

1) Alert on the PM
2) Ignore the user

Or you can PM me with the particulars.

Lithos
DU Moderator

[Mike 03]

5. Thank you, Lithos.

I'm going to leave well enough alone unless it gets out of hand.

Thank you!

[CreekDog]

18. you may want to report it, just in case they are doing it to others

just a thought.

[CLANG]

4. Well, I know it wasn't me. I say off with his head!

[Fuzz]

6. Sorry, I thought you might want to know how to make your thing bigger.

;)

[Sal Minella]

7. Yeah, if he wants to go on living without accepting The Absolute Truth I Bring,

then let him live in darnkess and cofnusion. I'll just stop sending notes, then.

[Tsiyu]

10. Love that new screen name

:rofl:

[Madrone]

13. OMG

WHere did you come from, woman!!??? I was just thinking about you recently. :hi:

[Tsiyu]

14. Ha! Been wondering where you were as well.

i've got The Purpose of Your Life" sitting on an end table in the LR and I think about you often.

Check your PM Girlie!

[Sal Minella]

19. Thanks. It won out over "Aunt Teak" and "Xavier Breth."

Ever listen to the credits at the end of Click and Clack on public radio -- the working mothers have a division headed by "Erasmus B. Draggen," their Russian chauffeur is "Pikopf Andropov," the upholstery tester is "Mike Easter" and on and on. "Roxanne DuBree" is lovely and I'm fond of "S.O.Tariq."

[Tsiyu]

20. Oh Gawd Yeah

Click and clack

"Don't drive like my brother"

"Don't drive like my brother."

Those names in the credits always crack my kids and me up.

Your other two choices were great as well, but the new one is so timely :applause:

[liberal N proud]

8. Happened to me a year ago

Turned out the user had mistaken me for another user who was being abrasive. It went on for a while and I tried to be cool about it. Someone else finally came to my aid and explained it was not I that had done what they were all over me about.

[BlooInBloo]

9. 1) Tell them to stop. 2) Block them. 3) Alert them.

That's my escalation chain, at any rate.

[scarletwoman]

11. Put it on "ignore". There are 3 sections to "ignore", you can use the one that just blocks someone

from sending you PMs.

In any case, if someone is harrassing you, you should notify a mod.

sw

[Berry Cool]

12. Alert. Definitely alert.

I had a jackass send me a threatening message once. I alerted. Pizza time.

[flvegan]

15. Listen to Lithos.

[MrSlayer]

16. I would respond with things that have nothing to do with the subject at hand.

You can have fun with this sort of thing.

[arcadian]

17. "Die! Die you mother fucker!"

"You should kill yourself because your family certainly hates you, do them a favor and kill yourself!"

That is the PM I got from one sociopath on DU.

[EFerrari]

23. My favorite come back is "Dive! Dive!" said the Capatain into the thing.

lol

[Horse with no Name]

21. I got one annoying one from someone

kept asking me where I lived, my private email addy, etc.
It was a DU'er I had never heard of.
I didn't engage them...and they persisted about 4-5 messages and then stopped.
But yeah, definitely alert the PM.

[MaraJade]

22. Report to the moderators. . .

I had "stalkers," and the only way that I got rid of the idiots was to
report to the mods. I suggest that you do the same.