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EmeraldSparks
United States1451 Posts
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Jayson X
Switzerland2431 Posts
It's so crazy what happens these days when the internetz is in uproar. | ||
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Psychopomp
United States237 Posts
On July 07 2010 01:18 jamesr12 wrote: worst idea in the history of forums? It's actually a good idea, if it weren't for peoples paranoia. I've been part of forums that require you post under your real name, and they were probably the most civil places on the internet. This will reduce the amount of trolling and shitposts in the official forums. It's just a huge PR hit, that's probably not worth it. BTW, to people talking about invasion of privacy, this would never fall under any of those laws. You know what you're getting into by posting on the forums. An invasion of privacy would be Blizzard themselves giving everyone your name. | ||
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Saturnize
United States2473 Posts
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purerythem
United States245 Posts
On July 07 2010 16:56 EmeraldSparks wrote: Posts in SC II General Discussion Rage Thread: 802 Posts in WoW General Discussion Rage Thread: 16226+ owned. TL forums will always out do blizzard forums for sc in general. As for wow, other than mmo-champion, I don't know of many other large sites. | ||
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ibutoss
Australia341 Posts
Not happy with this direction blizzard is taking. | ||
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kalleralle
Sweden183 Posts
Brave and revolutionary move by Blizzard which will go down in history. Well done ! User was warned for this post | ||
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Thingdo
United States186 Posts
I seriously dislike the thought of having my real name out there on official forums and in games. I've already made a battle net account that only shows the first letter of my last name, and I'm considering making another one that uses an entirely fake name altogether. I don't understand what Blizzard gets out of it either. Trolls are still going to troll under fake names, and serious posters are going to be driven away. There is absolutely no benefit that I can think of. I'm seriously hoping that Blizzard revokes this change. I'm normally a massive Blizzard fanboy, but they have really dropped the ball on this one. It seems like the team handling gameplay and stuff did a great job, but the Battle.net team has been screwing up left and right. | ||
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Saturnize
United States2473 Posts
On July 07 2010 09:08 FuriousJodo wrote: I like how people who are afraid of internet attacks have no qualms with attacking innocent people over the internet. I'm not sure what you mean by that. Do you mean people who have problems with internet attacks via the internet or physical attacks via getting someones personal information on the internet? | ||
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Psychopomp
United States237 Posts
On July 07 2010 17:10 kalleralle wrote: Lol you guys are totally brainwashed conformists all of you. How can this possibly be a bad idea, for any1 but the idiot trolls who never think their posts through? Being responsible for ones post fucking rules, finally we can get constructive posts in the forums, this should be implemented everywhere, especially in political forums. Brave and revolutionary move by Blizzard which will go down in history. Well done ! Lol you guys are totally brainwashed conformists all of you. And now you've made everyone who thinks this is a good thing look like an annoying "rebelling" teenager  | ||
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Antoniuss
Portugal26 Posts
Over- reactiiing..... | ||
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Thingdo
United States186 Posts
On July 07 2010 17:12 Antoniuss wrote: This changes nothing, what keeps you from changing the real name to your nickname? Nothing, till now. You don´t know. Over- reactiiing..... Actually you can't change the real name associated with an account. I tried earlier today. The only way to get the real name changed is to get a new account, and if you already have games on an account, that means repurchasing them. | ||
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Wargizmo
1237 Posts
1) keep it the way it is and continue to look unprofessional. 2) nuke the forums altogether 3) spend a lot of resources on moderators monitoring the forums 24/7, and constantly deleting, banning and warning people. 4) force people to use their real names. Obviously 3 is the best option, but they went with 4, lets just hope the resources they save end up going into making a better product. | ||
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Turbo.Tactics
Germany675 Posts
Lol you guys are totally brainwashed conformists all of you. How can this possibly be a bad idea, for any1 but the idiot trolls who never think their posts through? Being responsible for ones post fucking rules, finally we can get constructive posts in the forums, this should be implemented everywhere, especially in political forums. Brave and revolutionary move by Blizzard which will go down in history. Well done ! Besides pissing on everyones leg....you missed the point. The whole rant has nothing to do with taking responsibility for forumtrolls, it is about the destruction of privacy. Big Blizzard is watching you.....as well as the rest of the world will be able to. | ||
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Whole
United States6046 Posts
On July 07 2010 17:08 purerythem wrote: TL forums will always out do blizzard forums for sc in general. As for wow, other than mmo-champion, I don't know of many other large sites. They have ElitistJerks for raiding and ArenaJunkies for PvP. | ||
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nukkuj
Finland403 Posts
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Thingdo
United States186 Posts
On July 07 2010 17:18 Wargizmo wrote: Blizzard's official forums are a hive of immature, racist and inflammatory posts which reflect horribly on the company, they basically have 4 options: 1) keep it the way it is and continue to look unprofessional. 2) nuke the forums altogether 3) spend a lot of resources on moderators monitoring the forums 24/7, and constantly deleting, banning and warning people. 4) force people to use their real names. Obviously 3 is the best option, but they went with 4, lets just hope the resources they save end up going into making a better product. I don't really see 3 having to be an expensive thing. Require a battle.net account with a game to post. Hand out bans to abusers. 90% of trolls would disappear in the first few weeks. Trolls aren't gonna risk getting banned when they can't just make a new account and come back without repurchasing a game. I'm pretty sure the forums do currently require a cd key, so that much is done already. All they need to do is really step up the moderation for about a month, and bring down the banhammer hard on offenders. Everyone would fall in line or be expelled. | ||
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Disastorm
United States922 Posts
If there really was a company that wouldn't hire someone for playing games, I would never want to work for them in the first place. At my job I make it pretty well known I play games all the time, everyone in my group knows me as the gamer and when they ask me what I do every weekend I tell them I pretty much just play games all day and do judo. | ||
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Turbo.Tactics
Germany675 Posts
I'm pretty sure the forums do currently require a cd key, so that much is done already. All they need to do is really step up the moderation for about a month, and bring down the banhammer hard on offenders. Everyone would fall in line or be expelled. How about a seminar for the Battlenet Forum Mods, beeing coached by TL-Mods? Do it for the sake of ESPORTS and our privacy! | ||
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Defeat
United States476 Posts
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