Pet peeve of mine, which has become regular/acute enough that I am seeking therapy. Qualified providers may submit their resumes...

Seeing an increasing incidence of players starting duels with me while I am AFK, or focused intently on other things. Generally this happens in a very crowded and otherwise peaceful venue (the main room in Elden Root, etc), suggesting the perpetrators are picking through the numerous other players in the crowd looking for toons (standing at bankers or crafting stations, etc) to harass. Personally, I consider this griefing, and in the RP context of the game unequivocally dishonorable. You are entitled to your own opinion.

I don't PvP, or even know how to accept/decline duels, so I have no idea how this is happening. Is a player obligated to proceed with a duel initiated by another player if they take no action? If so, this is abysmal user interface design. It is also possible I am accepting these duels inadvertently while cycling through inventory/crafting tasks, UI/addon interface, etc. Keystrokes are keystrokes, and the UI can make of them whatever it chooses (and I have had my "Primary Action/Accept" keybinding do unexpected things before, based on context). And is there an incentive beyond pathological insecurity, malignant narcissism, and/or a desperate need to manipulate (like an achievement, or something)? In any event, I just suddenly end up briefly in combat and then dead with no warning and no idea who is attacking me, and then I have to rez, at whatever inconvenience to myself. Fortunately, I run a combat log addon, can identify the p̶a̶t̶h̶e̶t̶i̶c̶ ̶m̶o̶r̶o̶n̶ assailant and ignore them after the fact (I ignore people like this because I want to have nothing more to do with them, in perpetuity).

FYI to new players who may also end up harassed in this fashion: I am enabling the associated option on all my accounts/toons: ESC>Settings>Social>Notifications>Auto-Decline Duels. This apparently defaults to "OFF" (implementing an "opt out" dynamic, enabling duels by default... perhaps this should be reversed?). Change it to "ON". You will need to do this on all your toons.

Annoying/frustrating, but hopefully this will take care of it.