Then, while I started answering the interviewer's question, the hanger-on started whispering to me.  She said that I had hacked her and made her tell me her password, which was very untrue.  I had never even seen her before in my life!  I finished the question for the interview, and the girl continued to harass me, asked me to tell her my password, told me that I needed a makeover, and even told me her own password (which she said about a minute later was not really her password and accused me of hacking her once more). I wondered why in the world she was saying all these things to me. At this point, I reported her for giving our her password and threatening me for mine.

I was about to leave when she suddenly claimed to be a city worker and said she needed my password.  Based on my experiences and all of the warning messages I've seen throughout Whyvile, I reported her a final time for posing as a city worker so she could get my password.  No REAL city worker will ever ask for your password!  I left after that, feeling that I had notified the correct authorities about her behavior.

A few hours ago today (9/29), I received the Report Decisions. I was glad to see that she had been punished, and felt that I had done my part to keep this girl from harassing others. I went to check her city records to see what exactly had been done to her, expecting a, "Sorry, this user's page cannot be displayed" message. But what did I find? She was only taped! For posing as a city worker, harassing me for my password, and even giving out her own -- she was only muted for a few days?! Who knows what information she could have gotten out of someone who didn't know how to handle the situation? And to think that she could do that all over again after her tape comes off... sigh.

My question is this -- why was this girl only let off with tape? I've had many other incidences where I've reported people for much less an offense than this situation, and they have gotten banished. I would much rather put up with those people who I've reported for drawing out explicit images, or something along those lines, than have even one person like the girl I dealt with here on Whyville. What will happen if this happens again and a person who is trying to hurt someone passes through the 911 Report system?  Call me paranoid, but I don't want to know.  I just want these people to be banished and kept far away from Whyville -- is that too much to ask?
 

Editor's Note: Citizens with a history of asking for passwords are banished, usually by second or third incident.  So make sure you 911 report ANYONE who asks for your password -- you will be protecting your fellow citizens, and hopefully those people who ask for info will learn why it's such a bad idea.  (Most people who claim to be City Workers and ask for personal info get banished by the second case, by the way.)  The other people you've reported before may have been banished for events that had nothing to do with your report -- you never know where else they've been or what they've done, you know?