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McDonalds
Profile Joined March 2010
Liechtenstein2244 Posts
July 06 2010 16:54 GMT
#121
If you guys are worried about employers finding what you post on the Battle.net forums then I suggest you stop posting incriminating things on the Battle.net forums. No more posts about who you slept with, no more posts about what you'd like to do to your neighbour's dog. If you ever come across an employer who hates video games so much that he won't hire you because he saw you asking a question about a video game on the internet then you probably don't want to work there anyway.

If you told me your AIM I could probably find your real name in like half an hour. The problem is that people have no awareness of what they do on the internet. Maybe now some of them will take notice.
High five :---)
keV.
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
United States3214 Posts
July 06 2010 16:54 GMT
#122
Ill be posting as Punchington McFist. See you guys there.
"brevity is the soul of wit" - William Shakesman
dbddbddb
Profile Joined April 2010
Singapore969 Posts
July 06 2010 16:55 GMT
#123
They should also force us to use our cellphone numbers as our identifier. that would really help protect the people against spammers.
Cantankerous
Profile Joined May 2010
114 Posts
July 06 2010 16:55 GMT
#124
On July 07 2010 01:44 roflpie wrote:
I don't get it why so many people are afraid that others will find out who you are IRL.


I'll repeat what someone else said earlier. If you think everyone against this is just a cowardly fool then give your name or address in this thread.

Being able to protect your identity in a public forum (especially one aimed at hormonal kids with a lot of time on their hands) can be considered rather important.

I don't find using your real name on a forum to be a disastrous idea on the face of it, but on a huge forum like the blizzard one I think it's absolutely idiotic that you're being forced into it.
myopia
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
United States2928 Posts
July 06 2010 16:55 GMT
#125
Blizz just upped the ante.

I'll never post on those forums anyways, so for now I'll just sit back and watch
it's my first day
Tortfeasor
Profile Joined May 2010
United States14 Posts
July 06 2010 16:56 GMT
#126
This is a colossal mistake. 4chan is going to do terrible terrible damage to any and all blizzard posters.
A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand. -Bertrand Russell
CursOr
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United States6335 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-07-06 16:56:46
July 06 2010 16:56 GMT
#127
I think all forums on the internet should have this.

Makes people accountable for what they say. People just wanna go around making fun of people, complaining about shit, without any consequences. When that shit is tied to your real name, you better pay attention to what you are saying.

Unfortunately, people will just pseudonym in the future- Too bad there isn't a way around that. You would get way better quality.
CJ forever (-_-(-_-(-_-(-_-)-_-)-_-)-_-)
Sethronu
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
United Kingdom450 Posts
July 06 2010 16:56 GMT
#128
Oh and as for the person who said, real life works just fine without anonymity... Well, you don't walk around with a poster with your name on it, do you? You don't introduce yourself to every person in the strip club you visit and then post a newspaper article about it, do you? Nevermind that anyone remotely 'famous' - and sometimes your average Joes as well - use aliases in real life too.
BeMannerDuPenner
Profile Blog Joined April 2004
Germany5638 Posts
July 06 2010 16:57 GMT
#129
On July 07 2010 01:44 roflpie wrote:
I don't get it why so many people are afraid that others will find out who you are IRL.


please proof your point then and change your sig to your RL name + adress . evry single one of you guys that says its no prob should do it right now or dont post again in this thread.



life of lively to live to life of full life thx to shield battery
Deadlyhazard
Profile Joined May 2010
United States1177 Posts
July 06 2010 16:57 GMT
#130
This is a terrible, terrible idea. Wait until someone gets stalked down on the news and they source Starcraft 2 forums for it.
Hark!
Tray
Profile Joined March 2010
United States122 Posts
July 06 2010 16:58 GMT
#131
Seems to make sense. The Bnet forums are the worst, most poorly moderated forums of anything online, ever. Filled with angsty 14 year olds who just want to piss other people off under the veil of anonimity. This should severely limit such posts.

At the same time it's going to drop general traffic immensely. Maybe that's a good thing...
rS.Sinatra
Profile Joined May 2010
Canada785 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-07-06 17:00:38
July 06 2010 16:59 GMT
#132
with the existence of facebook and all sorts of other ways to google my real name and hold me hostage for the multi-billion dollars i am really worth, i will never ever ever ever ever ever ever post on blizzard forums... ever... again... not that i did in the first place....

on a side note: they should really just hire teamliquid staff to ban trolls on their forums and mod it, they do a real good job here... i mean.. at least if you work for blizzard you get paid...
www.rsgaming.com
Melt
Profile Joined May 2010
Switzerland281 Posts
July 06 2010 17:00 GMT
#133
It would be very wierd because there wouldn't be the anonymity anymore and i think a lot of poeple wouldn't want to adjust to that.

Maybe the discussions would benefit from that but in general it's just another step towards blizzards final goal:

TOTAL WORLD DOMINATION!
Backpack
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States1776 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-07-06 18:43:13
July 06 2010 17:00 GMT
#134

On July 07 2010 01:56 Tortfeasor wrote:
This is a colossal mistake. 4chan is going to do terrible terrible damage to any and all blizzard posters.


Yea, all 16 million of them.
"You people need to just generally care a lot less about everything." -Zatic
ViRo
Profile Joined May 2010
United States137 Posts
July 06 2010 17:01 GMT
#135
-From the Forum Guidelines

Distribution of Real-Life Personal Information

This category includes:

* Releasing any real-life information about other players or Blizzard Entertainment employees

If a player is found to have participated in such actions, he/she will:

* Be permanently banned from the Battle.net forums


time to rewrite the EULA
The back door was open.....so.....
Wi)nD
Profile Joined April 2010
Canada719 Posts
July 06 2010 17:01 GMT
#136
lol, gogogo blizzard
smart move after smart move
McDonalds
Profile Joined March 2010
Liechtenstein2244 Posts
July 06 2010 17:01 GMT
#137
On July 07 2010 01:57 BeMannerDuPenner wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 07 2010 01:44 roflpie wrote:
I don't get it why so many people are afraid that others will find out who you are IRL.


please proof your point then and change your sig to your RL name + adress . evry single one of you guys that says its no prob should do it right now or dont post again in this thread.





I'm assuming that we're talking about new forums for a new game here. Not a sudden change to the existing accounts of users with hundreds or thousands of posts.
High five :---)
Jarmam
Profile Joined June 2010
Denmark140 Posts
July 06 2010 17:02 GMT
#138
I entered the beta under a fake name, my B.net acc is under a fake name (since I only have SC tied to it, should it be hacked), and I shall continue to do so with every Blizzardgame I get from now, I guess. No surprises when it was announced that you had to actually e-mail Blizzard before they would keep your personal info private. Why do they need my personal info at all. To... show it on their forums?

Too bad I have to make a new account for every game I get, since I can't get Blizzardhelp if I get hacked (good luck proving that I am foreign exchange student Lawrence Mason from Scotland), but they don't really leave any other option available. Lets hope they hack my WC3 account first :p
"Freedom for Colossus" - White-Ra
Ghad
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Norway2551 Posts
July 06 2010 17:02 GMT
#139
On July 07 2010 01:54 McDonalds wrote:
If you guys are worried about employers finding what you post on the Battle.net forums then I suggest you stop posting incriminating things on the Battle.net forums.


Look. The problem is that Gaming still has a very bad stigma about it. Hence, I want to retain full control of WHO I show that part of myself to. End result is that I will not post a single word on the battle.net forums.
forgottendreams: One underage girl, two drunk guys, one gogo dancer and starcraft 2. Apparently just another day in Europe.
McCain
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United States187 Posts
July 06 2010 17:02 GMT
#140
The official forums have always been a great place


This is when I realized something was up.
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