• Log InLog In
  • Register
Liquid`
Team Liquid Liquipedia
EST 16:21
CET 22:21
KST 06:21
  • Home
  • Forum
  • Calendar
  • Streams
  • Liquipedia
  • Features
  • Store
  • EPT
  • TL+
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Smash
  • Heroes
  • Counter-Strike
  • Overwatch
  • Liquibet
  • Fantasy StarCraft
  • TLPD
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Blogs
Forum Sidebar
Events/Features
News
Featured News
RSL Season 3 - Playoffs Preview0RSL Season 3 - RO16 Groups C & D Preview0RSL Season 3 - RO16 Groups A & B Preview2TL.net Map Contest #21: Winners12Intel X Team Liquid Seoul event: Showmatches and Meet the Pros10
Community News
Weekly Cups (Nov 24-30): MaxPax, Clem, herO win2BGE Stara Zagora 2026 announced15[BSL21] Ro.16 Group Stage (C->B->A->D)4Weekly Cups (Nov 17-23): Solar, MaxPax, Clem win3RSL Season 3: RO16 results & RO8 bracket13
StarCraft 2
General
Chinese SC2 server to reopen; live all-star event in Hangzhou Maestros of the Game: Live Finals Preview (RO4) BGE Stara Zagora 2026 announced Weekly Cups (Nov 24-30): MaxPax, Clem, herO win SC2 Proleague Discontinued; SKT, KT, SGK, CJ disband
Tourneys
Sparkling Tuna Cup - Weekly Open Tournament RSL Offline Finals Info - Dec 13 and 14! StarCraft Evolution League (SC Evo Biweekly) RSL Offline FInals Sea Duckling Open (Global, Bronze-Diamond)
Strategy
Custom Maps
Map Editor closed ?
External Content
Mutation # 502 Negative Reinforcement Mutation # 501 Price of Progress Mutation # 500 Fright night Mutation # 499 Chilling Adaptation
Brood War
General
BW General Discussion [ASL20] Ask the mapmakers — Drop your questions Which season is the best in ASL? Data analysis on 70 million replays BGH Auto Balance -> http://bghmmr.eu/
Tourneys
[Megathread] Daily Proleagues [BSL21] RO16 Group D - Sunday 21:00 CET [BSL21] RO16 Group A - Saturday 21:00 CET [BSL21] RO16 Group B - Sunday 21:00 CET
Strategy
Current Meta Game Theory for Starcraft How to stay on top of macro? PvZ map balance
Other Games
General Games
Path of Exile Nintendo Switch Thread Stormgate/Frost Giant Megathread ZeroSpace Megathread The Perfect Game
Dota 2
Official 'what is Dota anymore' discussion
League of Legends
Heroes of the Storm
Simple Questions, Simple Answers Heroes of the Storm 2.0
Hearthstone
Deck construction bug Heroes of StarCraft mini-set
TL Mafia
Mafia Game Mode Feedback/Ideas TL Mafia Community Thread
Community
General
US Politics Mega-thread Russo-Ukrainian War Thread Things Aren’t Peaceful in Palestine The Big Programming Thread Artificial Intelligence Thread
Fan Clubs
White-Ra Fan Club
Media & Entertainment
[Manga] One Piece Movie Discussion! Anime Discussion Thread
Sports
2024 - 2026 Football Thread Formula 1 Discussion NBA General Discussion
World Cup 2022
Tech Support
Computer Build, Upgrade & Buying Resource Thread
TL Community
Where to ask questions and add stream? The Automated Ban List
Blogs
I decided to write a webnov…
DjKniteX
Physical Exertion During Gam…
TrAiDoS
James Bond movies ranking - pa…
Topin
Thanks for the RSL
Hildegard
Customize Sidebar...

Website Feedback

Closed Threads



Active: 1418 users

Bnet forums to be Real Name Only - Page 7

Forum Index > Closed
3046 CommentsPost a Reply
Prev 1 5 6 7 8 9 153 Next
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.
Prev 1 5 6 7 8 9 153 Next
Please log in or register to reply.
Live Events Refresh
Next event in 2h 39m
[ Submit Event ]
Live Streams
Refresh
StarCraft 2
Railgan 99
StarCraft: Brood War
Britney 13948
Calm 2650
Shuttle 542
Larva 202
firebathero 112
ZZZero.O 24
Dota 2
capcasts96
Counter-Strike
fl0m5498
Heroes of the Storm
Liquid`Hasu431
Khaldor128
Other Games
Grubby4225
tarik_tv3792
RotterdaM180
C9.Mang0149
Trikslyr69
XaKoH 54
Mew2King38
ViBE28
Chillindude8
Organizations
Other Games
Algost 8
StarCraft 2
Blizzard YouTube
StarCraft: Brood War
BSLTrovo
sctven
[ Show 18 non-featured ]
StarCraft 2
• musti20045 17
• Dystopia_ 5
• LaughNgamezSOOP
• sooper7s
• AfreecaTV YouTube
• intothetv
• Migwel
• Kozan
• IndyKCrew
StarCraft: Brood War
• 80smullet 24
• FirePhoenix10
• STPLYoutube
• ZZZeroYoutube
• BSLYoutube
Dota 2
• WagamamaTV747
League of Legends
• TFBlade1120
Other Games
• imaqtpie1462
• Shiphtur180
Upcoming Events
Replay Cast
2h 39m
Korean StarCraft League
1d 5h
CranKy Ducklings
1d 12h
WardiTV 2025
1d 14h
SC Evo League
1d 15h
BSL 21
1d 22h
Sziky vs OyAji
Gypsy vs eOnzErG
OSC
2 days
Solar vs Creator
ByuN vs Gerald
Percival vs Babymarine
Moja vs Krystianer
EnDerr vs ForJumy
sebesdes vs Nicoract
Sparkling Tuna Cup
2 days
WardiTV 2025
2 days
OSC
2 days
[ Show More ]
BSL 21
2 days
Bonyth vs StRyKeR
Tarson vs Dandy
Replay Cast
3 days
Wardi Open
3 days
StarCraft2.fi
3 days
Monday Night Weeklies
3 days
Replay Cast
4 days
WardiTV 2025
4 days
StarCraft2.fi
4 days
PiGosaur Monday
5 days
StarCraft2.fi
5 days
Tenacious Turtle Tussle
6 days
The PondCast
6 days
WardiTV 2025
6 days
StarCraft2.fi
6 days
Liquipedia Results

Completed

Proleague 2025-11-30
RSL Revival: Season 3
Light HT

Ongoing

C-Race Season 1
IPSL Winter 2025-26
KCM Race Survival 2025 Season 4
YSL S2
BSL Season 21
CSCL: Masked Kings S3
Slon Tour Season 2
Acropolis #4 - TS3
META Madness #9
SL Budapest Major 2025
ESL Impact League Season 8
BLAST Rivals Fall 2025
IEM Chengdu 2025
PGL Masters Bucharest 2025
Thunderpick World Champ.
CS Asia Championships 2025
ESL Pro League S22
StarSeries Fall 2025
FISSURE Playground #2

Upcoming

BSL 21 Non-Korean Championship
Acropolis #4
IPSL Spring 2026
Bellum Gens Elite Stara Zagora 2026
HSC XXVIII
RSL Offline Finals
WardiTV 2025
Kuram Kup
PGL Cluj-Napoca 2026
IEM Kraków 2026
BLAST Bounty Winter 2026
BLAST Bounty Winter Qual
eXTREMESLAND 2025
TLPD

1. ByuN
2. TY
3. Dark
4. Solar
5. Stats
6. Nerchio
7. sOs
8. soO
9. INnoVation
10. Elazer
1. Rain
2. Flash
3. EffOrt
4. Last
5. Bisu
6. Soulkey
7. Mini
8. Sharp
Sidebar Settings...

Advertising | Privacy Policy | Terms Of Use | Contact Us

Original banner artwork: Jim Warren
The contents of this webpage are copyright © 2025 TLnet. All Rights Reserved.