Bnet forums to be Real Name Only - Page 14

On July 07 2010 02:32 dbddbddb wrote:


Get an admin to ban him. problem solved. it's all spam from the same person.

On July 07 2010 02:32 Kletus wrote:


THIS. A thousand times this.

On July 07 2010 02:33 Tray wrote:


A better question is why do you think it's enough to have 1 CD key per name? It certainly didn't do crap to prevent the trolling/spamming on the beta board, why do you think it would prevent anything in retail? It wouldn't. With real names, do to the conerns brought up here, people will think twice about what they post with their real name attached to it.

And the people who say they will just come up with a phony name will be in for a rude awakening when they're very quickly banned from the forums because they stick out and then when their account is hacked cannot even retrieve it because the name on it doesn't match their real name. People keep saying they'll do this, but they really won't. It's an empty threat. Most people will attach their real name to their account and just post much less often.

The Teamliquid forums have always been a great place to discuss the latest info on our games, offer ideas and suggestions, and share experiences with other players

On July 07 2010 02:31 keV. wrote:
Still waiting for someone to tell me why it is necessary to use a real name instead of limiting the forum users to one posting account per CD-key.

On July 07 2010 02:33 Serotonin wrote:
I can just see this unfolding ...
At first it will be someone tracking another person who mouthed off at them on the forums and assaulting them.
Then the popular or unpopular but really good players will be targets of all those who envy / hate them, hacking their FB / MS accounts posting random weird shit on their sites or creating completely new ones if your name is not already reserved.
And this is the best part, data mining for every person who plays SC2 / WoW and getting sold to adv agencies who will in turn spam those people with either irl advertisements or something of that sort.
Oh oh lets not forget about random girl gamers getting stalked because of their name on the forums by some lonely nerds who want female company.
This is going to be EPIC, can't wait.
Oh man and the poor people with same names as some celebs ???!?! hahaha banned for impersonating a celebrity ?
EPIC I tell you guys !
Oh and they are breaking their own rules, they have a forum code which states no personal information can be released.

On July 07 2010 02:36 Jantix wrote:


My thought is the real name is more to stop people from spewing the first thing that comes to their mind and actually put some thought into their posts.

Having something tied to your real name makes you think a bit more than if you can hide behind your alias.

Its about increasing respectable intelligent conversation so that SC2 can become more than a game.

Your average non-gamer going onto battle.net forums is going to be really put off by the amount of crap that is there. Hopefully this change would help offset it a little bit

On July 07 2010 02:32 Alyoshka wrote:
Long time lurker, first time poster....

I am suprised at how the TL community is so anti-real name yet so pro- eSports.

We love Day[9] because he opened up with us and showed us the human element of playing video games as a sport, not just as entertainment. We can connect a name and face.

The internet at large will never lose its anonymity or its amazing and awesome privacy...but if eSports is to be a success, and household names are to be established it needs to be with real names, not aliases.

Can you realistically think of a scenario where eSports thrives and people retain their anonymity?

On July 07 2010 02:29 Backpack wrote:


No, you didn't "find me."

North Raleigh/Wake Forest is a big place. Even if you did manage to find my address though, what incentive do you have to do anything? Many people know my name online and offline, and the same goes for other big names.

Any celebrity doesn't have to worry about people knowing their first/last name, why should I?

On July 07 2010 02:24 Kambing wrote:


This is the naive view of what's going on. Practically speaking, many employers use google/facebook to find out information about applicants. Furthermore, they don't have to mention to you when you are "no hired" that they did such a search on you name. Even furthermore, there's a strong argument to be made that information via google/facebook is publicly available and thus admissible in such decisions (analogous to how an employer can judge you if you come drunk to an interview vs. professing your love of keggers and frat parties on your facebook page).