They shouldn't be able to do that!
this post was submitted on 14 Sep 2025
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Apart from real world means, the best defence against stalking/harassment is to stop posting on a public account associated with the identity that's being stalked/harassed. If someone is that horrible to stalk you, they'll be more than capable of circumventing a block.
Also, while there's no absolute guarantee, most communities have something vaguely along the lines of prohibiting harassment, as do most instances.
That doesn't mean that a given user's idea of harassment and a moderator's or admin's idea will always perfectly line up. What you think of as being harassment might be what some other people consider disagreeing. But in general, if someone is clearly following a user around and just commenting with the aim of trying to make them miserable, rather than disagreeing with them on some point or something, you can probably report it to a moderator (or, ultimately, admin) and have them remove their comments and probably issue a ban. Brings a third party's eyes into the situation.
And if you truly don't feel that a given community's moderators are sufficiently-restrictive, you can switch to a community that has more-restrictive rules.