Reporting a website.....

[northwind]

ISP, I would have thought, would make more sense than the police. Juristiction on internet stuff is really complicated where it crosses borders, and who knows where the site's hosted (frinstance, obviously this is a UK site but the server's in the US I think)

Tell your wife to stop going on the site....job done.

It's an American site. Still waiting on the admin/owner to get up so I can start round 3 with him.

It's a site that's very personal to her and I am dam sure she's not leaving just cause of one a$$hole but he is making it particularily difficult now. Hopefully I'll have him banned this afternoon after a bit more intelligence gathering!

Lol i wish the other site had some of these smilies. I know what I would be sending him!



Nev.

whats the site? & who is hasseling your mrs?

retaliation org style is due

[fizzwheel]

Originally Posted by hovis

retaliation org style is due

No No and No, please dont go down this route, I dont want the org getting in a spat with another site, we had that once before and it took alot of my time to get sorted out.

I can't picture a site that is very personal to her that she is not admin or mod of? If I was getting harassed on here, I would just leave, and enjoy my real life, they are all only websites. That said, I hope you do manage to get it sorted out. Or else post a load of illegal pr0n pics on the forum and tip off the police.

Originally Posted by fizzwheel

No No and No, please dont go down this route, I dont want the org getting in a spat with another site, we had that once before and it took alot of my time to get sorted out.

i was only joking...........

and would not mention this site

Originally Posted by fizzwheel

No No and No, please dont go down this route, I dont want the org getting in a spat with another site, we had that once before and it took alot of my time to get sorted out.

Really? This was before my time.

Tell me the story of the great war, oh wise Fizzwheel. Who were our enemy, and are we all at peace now?

Matt

The harrasment, in what form is that coming? It might be easier all round to be proactive and take steps to at least block it. Ie. if it's coming from from email (ie. the harasser has your other half's email address) configure your email client to auto delete anything from him, if it's PMs on the board, does the board software have any kind of ignore/mute functionality?

To be brutal, I doubt there's a whole lot the police either can do, or will see as a high priority to do, unless specific threats are mentioned (they might take interest if you casually mention you think he might be the type to carry heavy rucksacks onto tube trains, but that's probably very naughty). There is no real central policing of the internet, and to be fair, I kind of hope that never happens, there's co-operation over paedophiles, domain name contests and international tax evasion and the like but nothing really central to resolve "minor" problems (I use the word "minor" in no way to diminish the effects your other half is surely suffering, merely in the context when put alongside kiddie-fiddlers).

Hmm, how annoying.

Just an idea, but depending on the kind of site/server software it is, and the kind of trouble you're having, you can block some members from sending PMs to you.

Again though, not much help if theyre posting public threads or something.

Try digging around your/her user preferences and seeing if its possible?

Of course, theres nothing to stop them reregistering with a new username...but that the same case even if you succeed in banning them

If it were me, I'd:

1) call your local police and demand a reference number for an incident of harrassment. They may (probably) not give you a crime number, but they'll give you a reference number of sorts, they have to.

2) Write an email to the site owner, and same paper version of a polite letter explaining what you want done, and why. Mention in it that its their responsibility as an admin to moderate the content of the site, and if they fail to do it you'll take it to a governing authority, referencing the police number you already have. Be nice, it usually works.

3) Contact the ISP if/when/if not you get any response from the admins /registrars and forward (politely) all of the information/feedback you have to date, along with why they're in breach of their contract and should be contacted and duly dealt with.

Have you tried doing a whois search to find the registrant of the domain? Even though the site is? US based -the registrar may be anywhere.

The other back-down option of course is to delete your/her account and reregister a new one, making no "profile details" obviously similar. Delete the old account.

Good luck.