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On July 07 2010 04:58 GMarshal wrote:someone posted this on the Blizzard forums and I thought it was worth reposing here: Show nested quote +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.
Ghetto.Overlord needs to know how to use Privacy settings in Facebook. You do know you can prevent your friends list from being seen with a couple of clicks.
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In a way it's great: When someone is posting retarded shit, you'll know his name and probably at least his country if not more. Go there or send someone and punch him. That'll teach him that the internet is serious buisiness.
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On July 07 2010 05:06 Xiphiass wrote:Show nested quote +On July 07 2010 04:56 Steven.Bonnell.II wrote:On July 07 2010 04:51 iCCup.Diamond wrote: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... Actually it happens a lot. But I guess it depends on what you're trying to hide. Not doing anything wrong? Than no worries. 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. 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! Some employers don't want their workers to play games, and will look down on such people.
What?!?!
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Bnet forums is retarded anyway, and the only time you'd use it is for tech support (and even then, a lot of problems can be solved without them), in which case you would want to talk to official blizzard employees anyway.
But my b.net account's name is asdf asdf so I won't really mind posting with that.
But with facebook integration maybe blizzard is trying to reduce trolling by enabling the fact you can look up that person on facebook and do anything you want lol
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On July 07 2010 05:04 Liquid`Jinro wrote:Show nested quote +On July 07 2010 05:01 ikkyixo wrote: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. So you moderate the forum... Isn't the WoW forum moderated? I dunno, I haven't read it much but it didn't seem troll-infested.
It is, but they treat people over there with kid gloves. You have to do really stupid crap to get banned. They just need to drop the hammer on idiots more and the problem is solved. Unfortunately they'd rather do it with social engineering by showing your name. Reeks of laziness to me.
TL does a good job of moderating on their own without resorting to this crap, I don't know why Blizz can't.
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On July 07 2010 05:07 ikkyixo wrote:Show nested quote +On July 07 2010 04:58 GMarshal wrote:someone posted this on the Blizzard forums and I thought it was worth reposing here: 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.
Ghetto.Overlord needs to know how to use Privacy settings in Facebook. You do know you can prevent your friends list from being seen with a couple of clicks.
most ppl don't get that or remember to do that.
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On July 07 2010 05:06 Ota Solgryn wrote:
Another thing. People are complaining that activity will be less. Why is that bad. TL have always have a great reputation because of less post but with higher quality. If battle.net forums can obtain anything close to (especially older) TL.net, it will be a huge step towards the better.
TL only got this way through the earnest devotion of admins and mods, who don't actually get paid to do it.
Something tells me B.net forums won't become the same way.
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Well if anything this should be a very interesting experiment to see what happens on the internet. I can see this being a massive failure, but the Bnet forums are already a cesspool so they really can't get any worse.
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On July 07 2010 04:17 ikkyixo wrote:
(I've cut the quote to make it not long. I'm sure if someone wants to backtrack and read the original, they can.)
I'm not PO'd at all. I just don't see what the big deal is. ...don't post on their forums. Simple as that. In the long run, I feel that this change would make the forums more mature.
the "big" deal is that it's always a slippery slope to allow companies with influence (as in companies producing things that we like (sc2 for one) and that we assume are well intentioned and only do sensible things) to sway people along the wrong road (even unintentionally), they set a standard!
and until recently i though blizz was a company that set good standards (until the whole wow debacle)
certainly you and i are not accessible to trouble via this vector, but we are not the target either
personally i'm thinking of kids on that forum without any adult supervision
in the long run? how bout right away?
disclosing your id on internet is not a good thing, it derails all the work serious authorities are doing trying to prevent dangerous people from doing harm...mostly by protecting kids (even against their wishes) it starts with the id, goes to chat and leads to... trouble
there is no other form of protection on the internet (from real threats but also just from getting spammed with adds and offers)
i might add that even one person being hurt (in the strictest meaning of the word, not just ranted on or spammed or whatever) is enough to not do it
anyway i don't think blizz needs more "mature" forums, let the kids vent and troll, who cares... other people can ignore them and get what they want out those forums regardless
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Sweden33719 Posts
On July 07 2010 05:07 Kishime wrote:Show nested quote +On July 07 2010 05:06 Xiphiass wrote:On July 07 2010 04:56 Steven.Bonnell.II wrote:On July 07 2010 04:51 iCCup.Diamond wrote: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... Actually it happens a lot. But I guess it depends on what you're trying to hide. Not doing anything wrong? Than no worries. 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. 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! Some employers don't want their workers to play games, and will look down on such people. What?!?!
I've been asked by someone to remove their name from a post on this forum because of this very reason before.
On July 07 2010 05:07 dhe95 wrote:
Bnet forums is retarded anyway, and the only time you'd use it is for tech support (and even then, a lot of problems can be solved without them), in which case you would want to talk to official blizzard employees anyway.
But my b.net account's name is asdf asdf so I won't really mind posting with that.
But with facebook integration maybe blizzard is trying to reduce trolling by enabling the fact you can look up that person on facebook and do anything you want lol
Hm...........
The two bolded parts are somehow contradictory!
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On July 07 2010 05:07 Kishime wrote:Show nested quote +On July 07 2010 05:06 Xiphiass wrote:On July 07 2010 04:56 Steven.Bonnell.II wrote:On July 07 2010 04:51 iCCup.Diamond wrote: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... Actually it happens a lot. But I guess it depends on what you're trying to hide. Not doing anything wrong? Than no worries. 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. 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! Some employers don't want their workers to play games, and will look down on such people. What?!?!
I know one guy who is in his 40-50ies, who constantly tells me how wasteful it is of his son to play his xbox all the time. And surprise, he's also in charge of employment. I'm sure that if he finds out (simply typing in that persons name in Google) that someone has 3000 posts on WoW forums discussing how OP paladins are, he rather pick someone else for the job.
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On July 07 2010 05:12 Liquid`Jinro wrote:Show nested quote +On July 07 2010 05:07 Kishime wrote:On July 07 2010 05:06 Xiphiass wrote:On July 07 2010 04:56 Steven.Bonnell.II wrote:On July 07 2010 04:51 iCCup.Diamond wrote: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... Actually it happens a lot. But I guess it depends on what you're trying to hide. Not doing anything wrong? Than no worries. 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. 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! Some employers don't want their workers to play games, and will look down on such people. What?!?! I've been asked by someone to remove their name from a post on this forum because of this very reason before.
Because they were playing a game in their free time or they were posting on the forum/playing the game during work hours?
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On July 07 2010 03:51 Mulloy wrote:Show nested quote +On July 07 2010 03:48 Offhand wrote:
Mentioned this on another forum but no one took up the challenge. If you're cool with this change please include your first and last name, email address, bnet account name, and facebook profile.
In the meantime, you can get as much info as you want off the following hints: Offhand, United States.
Thanks! Michael David Mulloy II Gozoku@gmail.com http://www.facebook.com/#!/michael.mulloyHave fun?
Who is Mike? he posts some funny stuff  I love facebook stalking... HA!
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Sweden33719 Posts
On July 07 2010 05:14 Kishime wrote:Show nested quote +On July 07 2010 05:12 Liquid`Jinro wrote:On July 07 2010 05:07 Kishime wrote:On July 07 2010 05:06 Xiphiass wrote:On July 07 2010 04:56 Steven.Bonnell.II wrote:On July 07 2010 04:51 iCCup.Diamond wrote: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... Actually it happens a lot. But I guess it depends on what you're trying to hide. Not doing anything wrong? Than no worries. 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. 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! Some employers don't want their workers to play games, and will look down on such people. What?!?! I've been asked by someone to remove their name from a post on this forum because of this very reason before. Because they were playing a game in their free time or they were posting on the forum/playing the game during work hours?
Because he didn't want potential employers to know about his gaming history.
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On July 07 2010 05:10 TOloseGT wrote:Show nested quote +On July 07 2010 05:06 Ota Solgryn wrote:
Another thing. People are complaining that activity will be less. Why is that bad. TL have always have a great reputation because of less post but with higher quality. If battle.net forums can obtain anything close to (especially older) TL.net, it will be a huge step towards the better. TL only got this way through the earnest devotion of admins and mods, who don't actually get paid to do it. Something tells me B.net forums won't become the same way.
Yes, and it also got this way because people have a reputation. I.e. the so called elitist TL. People with high post count have a reputation, being bad or good, the high post people care about their reputation and you only get to high post count if you are not retarded and offensive (in most cases). IMO this is why TL is great, it's not a direct effect of people being banned, it is indirect.
If your real name is in B.NET you (hopefully) care about your reputation, so unless you are really offensive IRL, people will tone it down and maybe have higher quality posts and less of retard posts.
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On July 07 2010 05:13 Xiphiass wrote:Show nested quote +On July 07 2010 05:07 Kishime wrote:On July 07 2010 05:06 Xiphiass wrote:On July 07 2010 04:56 Steven.Bonnell.II wrote:On July 07 2010 04:51 iCCup.Diamond wrote: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... Actually it happens a lot. But I guess it depends on what you're trying to hide. Not doing anything wrong? Than no worries. 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. 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! Some employers don't want their workers to play games, and will look down on such people. What?!?! I know one guy who is in his 40-50ies, who constantly tells me how wasteful it is of his son to play his xbox all the time. And surprise, he's also in charge of employment. I'm sure that if he finds out (simply typing in that persons name in Google) that someone has 3000 posts on WoW forums discussing how OP paladins are, he rather pick someone else for the job.
Does his son have a job or is he an all-around disappointment? 
I mean, at a certain point you have to ask yourself what you're doing with your life. But if you're applying for a job then you could probably be in a worse state.
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On July 07 2010 05:15 Liquid`Jinro wrote:Show nested quote +On July 07 2010 05:14 Kishime wrote:On July 07 2010 05:12 Liquid`Jinro wrote:On July 07 2010 05:07 Kishime wrote:On July 07 2010 05:06 Xiphiass wrote:On July 07 2010 04:56 Steven.Bonnell.II wrote:On July 07 2010 04:51 iCCup.Diamond wrote: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... Actually it happens a lot. But I guess it depends on what you're trying to hide. Not doing anything wrong? Than no worries. 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. 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! Some employers don't want their workers to play games, and will look down on such people. What?!?! I've been asked by someone to remove their name from a post on this forum because of this very reason before. Because they were playing a game in their free time or they were posting on the forum/playing the game during work hours? Because he didn't want potential employers to know about his gaming history.
Then limit yourself to one or five posts on the official Blizzard forums.
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On July 07 2010 05:06 iCCup.Diamond wrote:
I got the ultimate question here for EVERYONE complaining about this.
How many of you actually use the b.net forums?
I know I tried once and gave up after 2 posts, so count me out.
Well, I haven't played a Blizzard game since Warcraft 2, but I definetly used the b.net beta forum, and expected to use the b.net forum to interact with blizzard if need be. Aint gonna happen now though.
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