As stopit precedents have accumulated, so have standard responses to typical offenses. Moreover, field staff have become better attuned to standard responses, and often are able to handle complaints completely on the spot. This was very difficult before stopit gathered enough data to develop, test, and implement response policies. Standard responses and field-staff skills gradually have reduced the senior administrative overhead associated with stopit. The third stopit mechanism is a carefully-structured standard note to alleged perpetrators of harassment, improper use, or other uncivil behavior.
Account holders are responsible for the use of their accounts.
User Accounts can help you change your password and re-secure your account. Detailed directions to User Accounts follow. Two interesting outcomes ensue. First, many recipients of u.y.a. notes go to User Accounts, say their accounts have been compromised, and change their passwords - even when we know, from eyewitnesses or other evidence, that they personally were the offenders. Second, and most important, u.y.a. recipients virtually never repeat the offending behavior.