EPTBlizzard's official forums attract some of the worst people on the internet. It's almost a given that someone will make use of that sort of information...
Bnet forums to be Real Name Only - Page 47
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maybenexttime
Poland5452 Posts
Blizzard's official forums attract some of the worst people on the internet. It's almost a given that someone will make use of that sort of information... | ||
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Bob300
United States505 Posts
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Scientia
Canada31 Posts
Isn't this against their ToS? So much for "Blizzard will never share your personal information". | ||
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InfiniteIce
United States794 Posts
On July 07 2010 07:12 kajeus wrote: Huh? First of all, young kids legally can't post under their names anyway. Secondly, your argument is first that they "don't know better," and then second that they "are forced." There doesn't seem to be any logical consistency to what you're saying.  It's bad that they're forced because they don't know better...?I believe you are not reading the replies accurately. I'm not the droid you're looking for... (You didn't originally quote my post. I simply responded to yours. The "don't know any better" isn't my argument.) | ||
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heishe
Germany2284 Posts
On July 07 2010 07:12 Kennigit wrote: Don't wish that. He's a cool guy. PR storm :x ah you're right, bashiok is pretty cool. still fucking funny though, he got owned. | ||
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Ecto
Denmark54 Posts
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MuTT
United States398 Posts
On July 07 2010 06:58 Deadlyhazard wrote: http://wowriot.gameriot.com/blogs/Americans-are-bad-at-games/Real-Names-on-the-Official-Forums-New-REAL-ID-function?gr_i_ni Holy crap!!! Yes this change will actually work in our favor. Some people are surely going to send hate mail to his house or give him a text or call on restricted. It is good for us because now they have repercussions of what they announce to the public and the choices they make. I dare one of the Blues to post " LAN will never happen, for your enjoyment " with their real name. Before we could only threaten with omgggzz ima cancel my preorder but now we can do much much more *mauhahahaha* | ||
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TheCookie
United Arab Emirates34 Posts
If they put more effort into banning and warning user's and having a very low tolerance while modding their forums, they will have the positive environment that they are after. | ||
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kajeus
United States679 Posts
On July 07 2010 07:13 maybenexttime wrote: This is one of the dumbest decisions made by Blizzard yet. Blizzard's official forums attract some of the worst people on the internet. It's almost a given that someone will make use of that sort of information... I would be interested to know how often the following people have been personally targeted by creepers or murderers for having their names known: Jinro, Nony, Day[9], HuK, Idra, Artosis, Goatrope, KawaiiRice, TheGunRun, Liquid`Nazgul, Tasteless... Man, I guess I could just go down the streamer list... | ||
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Kerotan
England2109 Posts
I'm a fascist. No, not like that, but I'm a control freak online, I didn't have a facebook account for the longest time, since I didn't like the idea of this mine of data that even my friends could see, even now I have rigidly structured groups which have different layered permissions on what they can see. In a ideal world I wouldn't have facebook account at all, but its kinda become required so I don't become a shut-in at Uni. The same applies for everything else online, I vet everyone that asks for my real name and anything else. Now I can see why people don't care about their information online, but I don't see why they want everyone to post their real name online, I don't buy the trolling explanation since anonymity is not the root of dick behaviour, but only a catalyst. So if you are so desperate for your real name to be online, make this optional, I just don't get why you are forcing me to do the same. If this does go through, which I doubt, I just won't post on the forums, or make a new Bnet account for SC2 with a fake name, its not like I use my Bnet account on a daily basis, its function is only as backup. | ||
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Clamev
Germany498 Posts
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InfiniteIce
United States794 Posts
On July 07 2010 07:14 Scientia wrote: Whether this stems trolling is irrelevant. They're breaching upon ethical codes with this, and blatantly disregarding their consumer's right to privacy. Isn't this against their ToS? So much for "Blizzard will never share your personal information". On this note, and this is an extreme long shot, does anybody know the process of starting a complaint with the appropriate boards in USA? I'm thinking of how the Korean FTC did with the SC2 EULA. This is probably not even viable, but something that could (should?) be explored... PS: Micah's Facebook was created on July 1st, 2009. So it's (most likely) not just some alias set up in advance to prepare for the shitstorm this change has created. Now I really feel bad for Bashiok. | ||
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keV.
United States3214 Posts
On July 07 2010 07:16 kajeus wrote: I would be interested to know how often the following people have been personally targeted by creepers or murderers for have their names known: Jinro, Nony, Day[9], HuK, Idra, Artosis, Goatrope, KawaiiRice, TheGunRun, Liquid`Nazgul, Tasteless... Man, I guess I could just go down the streamer list... To be fair, the starcraft community is miles better then the world of warcraft one =/ Disagreements about starcraft 2 are a lot less volatile than class discussion... | ||
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kajeus
United States679 Posts
On July 07 2010 07:14 InfiniteIce wrote: I believe you are not reading the replies accurately. I'm not the droid you're looking for... (You didn't originally quote my post. I simply responded to yours. The "don't know any better" isn't my argument.) Ohh, sorry. So YOUR argument is simply that they're being forced now and that's bad. Well, they're only forced if they choose to post and can legally use their own names on one particular public forum. So they have two choices: don't post or take responsibility for their posts! | ||
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purerythem
United States245 Posts
On July 07 2010 07:03 heishe wrote: lol this is so fucking good. I hope he gets stormed with phone calls now. I just sent him a text asking him not to go through with this. | ||
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ScienceRob
United States382 Posts
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Shirolol
England504 Posts
On July 07 2010 06:58 Deadlyhazard wrote: http://wowriot.gameriot.com/blogs/Americans-are-bad-at-games/Real-Names-on-the-Official-Forums-New-REAL-ID-function?gr_i_ni Holy crap!!! Does anyone else feel a bit uneasy at how pathetic the entire blizzard community is acting about this whole thing? Ok, so you now know that guys name.. So you googled him (Why?), found out a bunch of pointless information about his preferences (again, why?) and then felt strongly enough about his preferences to make a blog about it and then claim that hell is opening up and we are all going to be swallowed. Just because you can do something, doesn't mean you have to - in most normal situations in life people just don't really care what your favourite movie is, where you live, or even what your name is. But suddenly when the internet comes along, if anything about you personally is ever found out it's the worst thing to happen since.. I spilt some tea on my leg the other day - and it was still luke-warm tea aswell, nasty. You can find all the information you want about anyone in the world right now, without your name being shown on a forum to do with blizzard games. So what's the difference if you can see them? Fact of the matter is: Stop over reacting, step back and look at how ridiculous you are being. | ||
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InfiniteIce
United States794 Posts
On July 07 2010 07:16 kajeus wrote: I would be interested to know how often the following people have been personally targeted by creepers or murderers for have their names known: Jinro, Nony, Day[9], HuK, Idra, Artosis, Goatrope, KawaiiRice, TheGunRun, Liquid`Nazgul, Tasteless... Man, I guess I could just go down the streamer list... THe thing about this is that they aren't forcing *US* to respond to them, ask them questions for the Day9Daily, Ask Idra!, or anything else, using our real name, on a service we paid for, that can ONLY be used while connected to the internet, a place where anonymity is key. Plus, people actually like the players/casters/people you mentioned. | ||
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shawster
Canada2485 Posts
On July 07 2010 07:19 ScienceRob wrote: I can't help but feel bad for the Blizzard employee. i do feel bad for him but he should've seen it coming | ||
Liquid`Jinro
Sweden33719 Posts
If this does go through, which I doubt, I just won't post on the forums, or make a new Bnet account for SC2 with a fake name, its not like I use my Bnet account on a daily basis, its function is only as backup. The problem here is that if you do this, and your account gets hacked, you cannot get it back. | ||
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