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Xiphiass
Latvia144 Posts
On July 07 2010 04:50 Steven.Bonnell.II wrote: You guys are funny if you really think the average employer is going to do searches on the internet for your name... It's a regular practice for every respected employer to do a background check on his potential employees. | ||
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P00RKID
United States424 Posts
Did all of blizzard never get that talk? This sounds like it won't happen at how many people it will piss off. (or possible lawsuits, they don't like those) | ||
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Razor[cF]
United States46 Posts
The reason why Blizzard/Activision won't have an issue with privacy is because they aren't really offering any information that isn't public information, because public records include full names. The problem is when you link the name provided by blizzard with websites like facebook and myspace etc that have shotty privacy policies that does not cater to the technologically challenged. If Blizzard had the option of not showing your name, then it wouldn't be a big deal because there would be a privacy setting, but there isn't. It's definitely going to reduce the amounts of posts and increase the quality of posts, but it won't get rid of trolling. What it will do definitely though is reduce the amount of live moderators they need to manage the boards which increases the bottom line. I like blizzard as a company, but this is a dangerous idea. | ||
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Crixus
Canada110 Posts
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keV.
United States3214 Posts
On July 07 2010 04:47 Kennigit wrote: Blizzard needs to go back to not announcing anything ever until it's about to ship. THEY DEFINITELY DO! http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=ATVI -1.5% That's like 100 years salary of the CR reps they would've been able to let go... | ||
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faction123
Belgium949 Posts
On July 07 2010 04:50 Steven.Bonnell.II wrote: You guys are funny if you really think the average employer is going to do searches on the internet for your name... I've had an interview before where I was confronted about something that was found via google search, actually.. | ||
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McDonalds
Liechtenstein2244 Posts
On July 07 2010 04:52 P00RKID wrote: I remember when I was young there was some saying like "Never give out your real name to random people online, or your info" Did all of blizzard never get that talk? This sounds like it won't happen at how many people it will piss off. (or possible lawsuits, they don't like those) On the bright side, maybe there will be less kids on the Battle.net forums. | ||
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WiljushkA
Serbia1416 Posts
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semantics
10040 Posts
On July 07 2010 04:50 Steven.Bonnell.II wrote: You guys are funny if you really think the average employer is going to do searches on the internet for your name... maybe not the "avg"(pizza hut and sears) employer but you don't think a hospital, business firm, school etc. is going to do a background check on you. There are people who loose jobs are frivolous things like posting on a social site, sometimes it's even more ridiculous like people who were accused of a crime but acquitted becuase of mistaken identity which should have been whipped form the record but 3rd parties can still pick up on that information and bye bye your job chances. Just because it's unlikely doesn't mean you should let it happen. | ||
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nineninja9
United States194 Posts
Honestly, I don't see this happening, what I DO see happening however is a number of polite and well-mannered but ignorant posters debating over trite topics or simply providing bad advice. It'll be even funnier if the forums become dominated with bad advice, but anyone with actual knowledge that goes in giving good advice will either have to debate against the "established" strategies on the forum, or be ignored because of rude language simply because they cannot believe the stupidity that dominates the forum. | ||
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kajeus
United States679 Posts
On July 07 2010 04:45 moyk wrote: How exactly is unnecessarily displaying people's name to the public an "edgy new thing"? It's not -- it's merely raising raising potential issues hence why it's being met with such a huge outcry on this and other forums. It's OBVIOUSLY an edgy new thing -- have you ever heard of such a bold way to get rid of stupid flame wars and trolling? Nobody else has the balls to even try that! This is not an Internet revolution, dudes. It's the Blizzard forums. Which are currently a cesspool, by the way. | ||
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vesicular
United States1310 Posts
On July 07 2010 04:50 Steven.Bonnell.II wrote: You guys are funny if you really think the average employer is going to do searches on the internet for your name... This is a bigger issue than you make it out to be. If you're a teacher at a school and you play games in your free time, the last thing you want is your real name on the same site your student's are on for obvious reasons. Most teachers are pretty careful about that sort of thing, so they would never post on the new bnet forums because of it, but it's not always about some middle manager looking you up on Google. There are very valid reasons to not want your real name attached to your posts. | ||
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Destiny
United States280 Posts
On July 07 2010 04:51 iCCup.Diamond wrote: If you're applying for a job at McDonald's or Hardees or 99% of entry-level jobs, they're not going to check online for anything.Actually it happens a lot. But I guess it depends on what you're trying to hide. Not doing anything wrong? Than no worries. You only think "it happens quite a lot" because as soon as it happens to someone, the news is all over it. Like I said, if you guys are really worried about what's out there, you have two options: 1) GTFO off the internet, or 2: WATCH WHAT YOU SAY! | ||
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sparC
Germany162 Posts
i don't see a difference at all. | ||
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kajeus
United States679 Posts
On July 07 2010 04:55 vesicular wrote: This is a bigger issue than you make it out to be. If you're a teacher at a school and you play games in your free time, the last thing you want is your real name on the same site your student's are on for obvious reasons. Most teachers are pretty careful about that sort of thing, so they would never post on the new bnet forums because of it, but it's not always about some middle manager looking you up on Google. There are very valid reasons to not want your real name attached to your posts. I'm not sure that a couple of mild-mannered posts on the official Starcraft forums are going to spell doom for a teacher, man.  | ||
GMarshal
United States22154 Posts
Picture this. No really do it. It's July 30th, and you just finished installing your copy of Starcraft 2, and you're ready to hop online. You enter the multiplayer aspect and search your first 1v1 game type. You pick Terran, as you are unfamiliar with the other races, and your opponent spawns zerg. 2 minutes go by, and you realize you have no clue what you're doing, and 6 lings come into your base and demolish everything. You lose. "wow... man I got creamed", you think to yourself. So you head over to the bnet forums to ask for advice. Having browsed the forums regularly in beta, you know what to expect, trolls, off topic posts, and the occasional Blue responding only to threads praising Bnet 2.0. But then, you see a topic that intrigues you titled "ZERG IMBALANCED PLEASE REMOVE", so you quickly enter it to become more informed and voice your opinion on how badly they are imbalanced. After some skimming in the thread, you notice something odd..... The name Tony Mcfinklestein is highlighted with the reply "0-4 0%" Noob l2p. You think, why is this douche being mean to new players? You then notice under his name it has his battle.net account and it says Ghetto.Overlord. You suddenly get a surge of hatred coming from inside of you, having remembered that name from the forums during beta, you hated this elitist and his blog with a passion, so much that you copy paste his name into google. Viola! Facebook pops up, and there are a total of 3 Tony Mcfinklesteins, so you have to decide which one is Ghetto.Overlord. After 5 minutes you discover that 2 are private and one is not, thus singling out that now you have a 50% chance of finding him after realizing the 3rd tony is a black Portuguese woman. Now it gets tricky, how are you going to infiltrate his private account? Suddenly you start refreshing one of the names to view his friends, and you notice "Starcraft 2" as one of his 6 friends. You become ecstatic with joy, an overwhelming feeling that you have found the man you hate, and you are overcome with this gleeful desire to wreak havoc on his personal life, all because his views are different than yours. You randomly click a few of his friends before realizing one of them is not private, and read up about her and her personal life, as well as any comments Tony left on the wall. Suddenly you have an opening, and you friend request Tony saying, "HEY WE WENT TO HS TOGETHER REMEMBER ME I WAS THE DUDE WHO SAT BEHIND YOU IN SEX ED". Out of sheer luck, Tony friended you back, and you now have access to his personal information. 3 Days later you show up to Tony's house in Arizona with a 5 Iron in your hands, as he answers the door you beat him into oblivion until his face can no longer be recognized as Tony Mcfinklestein. The end. | ||
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duessues
United States4 Posts
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
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ikkyixo
United States49 Posts
On July 07 2010 04:54 nineninja9 wrote: ...Honestly, I don't see this happening, what I DO see happening however is a number of polite and well-mannered but ignorant posters debating over trite topics or simply providing bad advice... I'd rather have a polite and well mannered, constructive post on trite topics than for someone who does not know about the game make a post and have 15 anonymous people talk down on that person, call them an idiot, and turn away a prospective member of the community. | ||
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kajeus
United States679 Posts
On July 07 2010 04:58 GMarshal wrote: someone posted this on the Blizzard forums and I thought it was worth reposing here: Hahahahahahahaahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. It all started with knowing his name... ...it ended... in murder... | ||
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