h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Hi Im Nats Angelicaheaven

I want to complain about a user that is stalking me, his user name was HOT ROD, but now he is just a researcher number.
As soon as i entered again into h2g2 in another name, he put up his user number straight away.
I don't him there cos he causes trouble with all the lasses on here, like of myself for instance.
He was like this with a girl from Liverpoool aswell as me, and her name is Princess Of Hearts.
So please can you tell him in a nice way to leave me alone.
It feels like i am being stalked if you know what i mean.
Anyway i hope you get back to me aswell as him to leave me alone.
Thanx for listening if you know what i mean.
xx*NATS*xx

Hi Nats,

This is probably not the answer you want but the main purpose of this service is to let people on digiboxes use the BBC's reactive moderation complaints scheme. You need to have a specific post or page which breaks the <./>HouseRules</.> and email the group with the details so we can press the complaints button on your behalf.

Obviously we can try to mediate in a dispute but we have no special powers for doing that and that isn't really the point of this service.

But he is stalking me cany you see that?
I am for being so brunt there, but he wont even leave me alone.
He has even been telling people that i have had it with him on the phone, which i havent i wouldn't even degrade myself to do that.
See what i mean?
He is just a pervert stalking women, well he must get a kick out of it.
I have asked him poliely to take him off my list, but he wont do it.
So i need help really to stop him doing this to me aswell as my friend Hilary Princess of Hearts.
Anyway please try and help, cos i cant take it anymore.
Thanx for listening.
xx*NATS*xx

I have a nasty and malicious person stalking me on h2g2 too and the staff won't do anything about that. Quite the reverse in fact - they tend to side with some of the nastier people.

I'll see what I can do but you have to understand that it won't be much. You say that he has reverted from a nickname to just a researcher number. Do you know what it is or will it be obvious who you mean from your conversations? You don't have your reciprocal friends list set up so I can't check that the easy way. I assume that is what you mean by wanting him off your list.

OK, I've done a bit of leaping around conversations and I assume you mean U236692. That account has 2 angelicaheaven accounts (and other ones which have become an issue lately) on its friends list.

You did make it very easy for people to find you again by choosing almost the same nickname. Then again, if you talked to the same people in the same conversations you wouldn't be hard to spot either.

It looks like you get a few hours to chat at night while U236692 is off-line.

You've already asked him multiple times to take you off his friends list and he's refused. It's obvious that it won't make any difference if I ask him and I know that the staff can't do anything and wouldn't if they could. If you don't create any journal entries then there will be no conversations for him to pick up that way. Without a PS page you are safe from direct messages (though unfortunately there are some software changes coming which will stop people from having no PS).

The best way to have moderately private messages is to pick an out of the way page to chat and then keep deleting the link to it from your space. Don't use an official one because other people will be subscribed to it. Normally you could use one you have created yourself and deleted (otherwise it is too easily found) but if you are on a digibox you wouldn't be able to see the forum number or mess with the URL to get there and post. So a nondescript page which you can remember or search for easily is the other choice (eg one from a researcher who has left).

You can then pass the location of this page/thread to the few friends you trust in real life. Never give out its name/number in a thread or on a page. Always have everyone unsubscribe immediately after posting to it. Your conversation will still be findable but it will be a lot harder for someone else to do this. If you include a really weird password in the very first post you make (not the subject title though) then that can act as a key to search for the thread quickly every time you want to post again but only you and your friends will know the password.

Hi Sef

I am so for forgetting about this posting to you.
Anyway i would like to say, that we are friends again now.
I just hope that it stays that way, cos i can't handle anything like that at all.
I did explain that i suffer with my nerves, aswell as having Psuedo Seizures.
Anyway i will go for now, and if anything else happens i will get right back to you asap.
Anyway thanx for your advice it was considerate of you.
So you take
xx*NATS*xx

I'm glad everything is sorted out for now, Nats. It is much better that you are friends again. Maintaining a "private" conversation thread is a lot of effort.

Hi Sef

for being there for me, and i would like to thank you for your time aswell.
Yeah Phil and i have sorted it all out now, and we are back to friends.
Anyway i would like to say, that you have been like a advisor to me.
I hope that you will keep chatting to me, cos you have been a
I will go for now and hope to speak soon.
So take care
xx*NATS*xx