As long as the whip users take getting reported like men

I knew that one could crack the whip, but I wasn't aware that it did anything to anyone outside a mission.

By the way, the Motion Picture top, with the Seven of Nine bottom and heels done all in black makes an awesome outfit with that whip on the side. whoot!

harassment and pestering in social areas needs to stop
we can't afford to get a reputation as that sort of game

the whips are fun leave it alone and go play on k-7 or we may need to insert a large garden gnome into you.

Whip is another tool to annoy ppl lol

I'm still Lollin about all this. But I have to ask. Why So Serious?

I haven't even seen people using the whips in-game yet but I do spend most of my time on DS9.

You of all people should realize that not everyone goes into the major social areas to be harassed by idiots who don't have the common courtesy to realize the setting off anything (if it's the ferengi whip, generators, triage, etc, etc) in the social areas ruins that area for OTHER PLAYERS

And after sleeping on it, I say this, there should be an automatic fail of all DOFF missions a player has going and penalty to that players dilitrhum / energy credits reserve of say... 50% if they set off any power of any kind in a social area of STO.

How does this "ruin the area" for you? I mean I get mildly annoyed if a whole room is infested with fireworks, shard-clones and the like, but that's it. Do you yell at people on the streets when you don't like their hairstyle or something?

And if you really just can't stand it, switch instance, it's fast and it's free you know.

I (in my Bajoran character) was waiting in a specific location (exchange) in a specific instance for a specific person (a Bolian friend of mine) to meet up and help him with a mission he can't deal with.
He was late
I was subjected to and Witness to over 30 minutes of stupid harassment and pestering by first one then two then Three complete jerks.

Had my own weapons been functional I would have undoubtedly turned them into blue outlines.

A lot of people saw this and very few spoke up about these people.

The Whip is wrong , its leading to sexual harassment , generalised harassment and childish bullying

and the "You must have enjoyed it" comments are like saying "she was wearing a short skirt so she was asking for it"