EPTBnet forums to be Real Name Only - Page 70
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Kennigit
Canada19447 Posts
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DeCoup
Australia1933 Posts
On July 07 2010 10:41 InfiniteIce wrote: There are 2,120 people in the U.S. named Brian Walker. There are 123 people in the U.S. named [my name] There are 1 or fewer people in the U.S. named [my friends name, she plays WoW and uses the forums] Extrapolate. I understand the point you are trying to make. People with common names would be very hard to locate. People with more unique names would be much easier to identify. But where did you get those figures from? How do you know there are 2120 people in the US names Brian Walker? Or was that number just an example? | ||
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Archerofaiur
United States4101 Posts
And yah just because other people are stupid enough to say they want their private info public doesnt mean you should indulge them. | ||
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Serpico
4285 Posts
On July 07 2010 07:44 Bibdy wrote: I want to know how many of the people in that thread concerned about their privacy have a facebook page and twitter on a regular basis. That would be an interesting statistic. You can set privacy settings on facebook and make sure you only add friends you already know. You shouldnt have to give away your name to have a conversation with strangers. | ||
Warf
Netherlands71 Posts
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Alsn
Sweden995 Posts
On July 07 2010 10:39 iCCup.Diamond wrote: Just because you don't care about what people find out about you, doesn't mean noone else does. Congrats you found a picture of me from 2004. Good work. Now that that picture of me from forever ago is out I will go and cry in a corner. Just to take your own glorious nation as an example(assuming your TL info is correct, which I assume it is judging by your posts in this thread), by following the news I know that your country is far from "over" racism. Displaying someone's name will in many cases tell you exactly what their ethnicity is, opening up for all kinds of harassment for no other reason than Blizzard forced you to if you wanted to participate on their forums. Do you seriously believe that blizzard should be able to impose this on everyone simply because your own situation is fortunate enough that you don't have to care about things like this? | ||
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InfiniteIce
United States794 Posts
On July 07 2010 10:45 DeCoup wrote: I understand the point you are trying to make. People with common names would be very hard to locate. People with more unique names would be much easier to identify. But where did you get those figures from? How do you know there are 2120 people in the US names Brian Walker? Or was that number just an example? Src: http://www.howmanyofme.com As part of our constant attempt to keep this site fresh, we've updated our data with recently released last name information from the 2000 Census | ||
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TimeToPractice!
United States105 Posts
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Diamond
United States10796 Posts
On July 07 2010 10:48 Alsn wrote: Just because you don't care about what people find out about you, doesn't mean noone else does. Just to take your own glorious nation as an example(assuming your TL info is correct, which I assume it is judging by your posts in this thread), by following the news I know that your country is far from "over" racism. Displaying someone's name will in many cases tell you exactly what their ethnicity is, opening up for all kinds of harassment for no other reason than Blizzard forced you to if you wanted to participate on their forums. Do you seriously believe that blizzard should be able to impose this on everyone simply because your own situation is fortunate enough that you don't have to care about things like this? We're not over it but you don't have to hide your name by any means. I guess I'll try and say this again. You are NOT required by law to post on the blizz forums. Use awesome forums like TL. Game. Set. Match. | ||
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Antisocialmunky
United States5912 Posts
Plus you can always use one of those data aggregation sites that sell data on people. So yeah, its not that hard to find someone only by name. | ||
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Deadlift
United States358 Posts
On July 07 2010 10:48 TimeToPractice! wrote: I'm not entirely sure how I feel about this yet, but I know everything that Blizzard does is initially hated and then eventually people realize it's not so bad and then figure out the positives of their decision. Remember when people said MBS, automine, and smart casting would ruin SC2? Yeah... | ||
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yesitsrob
United Kingdom43 Posts
Personally it doesn't bother me, I don't mind posting under my real name. | ||
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Renaissance
Canada273 Posts
Once this goes live, I will never post on the forums again. I'll probably stop browsing them too. I'm a girl, a girl with a pretty rare name. If you put my first and last name in quotes and google it, 13 pages of results come up, only 5 of them are in English. 4 of them are about me. First English result is a page about a play i was in 7 years ago, which includes a picture of me (and i still look pretty much the same). The next three are the results from bowling tournaments I have been in. One of which has a photo of me because I did well. The 5th is some site that says to "find people with this name!" which has no info for my name. I don't have my facebook or anything like that under my real full name. I normally just shorten it so people can't really search for me. So I post something on the forums and people will know my real name. By googling my name you can *get photos of me *find out my hobbies *find out where (and with a bit of digging, when) I do my hobbies *who some of my friends are (some of the bowling tournaments list my teammates) * and find out the area i live in. likelihood that someone will track me down and do bad things to me? slim to none. Something I'm really willing to risk even if it probably would never happen? No But beyond that, I'll be looking for a new job next year, I would hate to have a potential employer google my name, and read what I've said on here. Do I normally troll? No, I'd say 80% of my posts are just quick questions that I googled and couldn't find the answer, knowing that I could get a quick answer here. The other 20% are my arguing about abortion, religion, random silliness and other junk in the OT forums or me falling for a troll. I'm not a huge poster, So me not posting isn't going to change anything, but I do love these forums. I hope something changes before this goes live. Even assigning us a handle/nickname and having said nicknames link to a list of all our toons would be fine with me. But this Real ID thing has to go. TL:DR: version Do Not Want Yes you can find me by googling my name Don't want future employers to see me in the OT forums Yes, I know that it wont be a big deal when I quit posting. Do Not Want And to people who say "Oh I will never post there", chances are you probably will. You may have a rare technical problem. You may want to sign up for a tournament. In my opinion, Activision Blizzard is not doing this because of the trolls. From the looks of it, they are trying to make it so that they have control not only on an online level, but real life as well. | ||
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Redmark
Canada2129 Posts
The first is that Blizzard didn't really think this one through. The second is that no matter where you are, in which community, when you show weakness people will make it fucking hurt. Rage at Blizzard all you want, predict their fall, lynch Morhaime, but don't pretend that this doesn't also expose a dark and ugly side of the Blizzard community and gaming in general. We knew it was there all along; of course it was. But I had held some hope that we wouldn't decide to take the 4chan approach. And as someone who actually browses 4chan from time to time, those of you advocating harassment to 'make a point' are no better than the Anonymous calling up Gamestop employees asking for Battletoads, or mailing death threats to Scientologists. | ||
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Alsn
Sweden995 Posts
On July 07 2010 10:48 TimeToPractice! wrote: Except "everything" which you claim is not even true. The shitstorm raised about bnet2 has created some major backlash for them and many of the things they were criticized for were reversed(friends list thing for one, there are a myriad of other things that they eventually reverted and thats just SC2. Don't even get me started on WoW).I'm not entirely sure how I feel about this yet, but I know everything that Blizzard does is initially hated and then eventually people realize it's not so bad and then figure out the positives of their decision. | ||
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Shirolol
England504 Posts
On July 07 2010 10:51 Renaissance wrote: From the looks of it, they are trying to make it so that they have control not only on an online level, but real life as well. Yeah, activision is just a front for the NWO. | ||
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Oathmaster
Canada81 Posts
Name is Mark Benjamin Bourgeois as well, for those who seem to think it matters to know I'm serious with my post | ||
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InfiniteIce
United States794 Posts
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 World of Warcraft forums Copied DIRECTLY from the world of warcraft forum code of conduct. | ||
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Ndugu
United States1078 Posts
It's a win/win situation. | ||
Liquid`Jinro
Sweden33719 Posts
On July 07 2010 10:50 Kishime wrote: Remember when people said MBS, automine, and smart casting would ruin SC2? Yeah... Remember when people said not having LAN, unique IDs, chat channels or cross region play would ruin SC2? Oh wait they still do, and it still will!  Point being that just because sometimes the community is wrong, doesn't mean it's always wrong. Or vice-versa. | ||
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