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Originally Posted by genher
That doesn't make it right.
Sorry Nemo but I am afraid I am on FTP's side on this one.
Asking for a fee to leave him alone would be illegal in most places and should not be tolerated on FTP more than anywhere else. It’s extortion pure and simple. The only time it could be alright is if it's a common agreement. Here it's not. You are trying to impose it on him.
If someone was bullying you down the road everyday and ask you for a fee to leave him alone what would you do? Would that be ok?
That said, I don't have a problem with you sitting the guy every time he is in the lobby , but by following him around and making it obvious in the chat that you are doing it with intent constitute harassment.
once again, ask yourself what would happen to you if you did this to someone in your city? It probably wouldn't be tolerated either.
How can you permit yourself this kind of logic?
There is no equivalence between what Nemo did and some guy in your city following you around and demanding money!
In the second case, the guy is violating your personal privacy and is likely threatening physical harm if you don't pay him.
In Nemo's case, he has every right to follow and target a player on a poker site. It's just game selection. When he then offers the guy a proposition wherein he'll accept a fee to stop sitting in the guy's games, this proposition is not backed by anything like a threat of violence or force. The guy can laugh in Nemo's face and tell him no, and there's nothing Nemo can do about it, other than keep sitting the guy,
which is already his right and not in itself a violation.
The only real violation I see is chat abuse, verbal intimidation, and possibly the fact that Nemo made his fee proposition through the medium of FTP chat, which FTP is uncomfortable with, out of fear that such a proposition coupled with verbal abuse "looks bad" for its image.
But calling it extortion in the real-world sense of the term is incorrect. It is at most a kind of verbally applied (non-coercive) psychological pressure and should be punished as part of Nemo's chat abuse.