| synapse China. July 07 2010 02:02. Posts 6906 | Profile Blog # |
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 789 United States. July 07 2010 02:02. Posts 959 | Profile # |
Fucking terrible. I did a yellow page search and only 3 results came up with my name. Some random dude ... then me and my dad (same name). Just what I want, people to be able to easily find out exactly who I am. It isn't that I troll or don't want my online activities associated with myself ... its a privacy issue. Some jackass gets angry at me because he disagrees with me or something lame ... all of a sudden he googles me and has my address and phone number? How does that even remotely sound like a good idea. Even worse? He has my parents address and phone number. My parents could end up getting harrassed by some douchebag from the internet ... sounds like a jolly good idea.
I usually side with Blizzard on issues, but stripping away privacy like this is going too far. Now I'm not gunna claim to not buy the game or anything like that ... but I can tell you that I'll never be posting on their forums and be making a new battle.net account with a fake name. I appreciate them trying clean up the flaming and trolling on their forums, but they seemingly have no forethought of the consequences here.
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| Offhand United States. July 07 2010 02:02. Posts 1724 | Profile # |
On July 07 2010 01:53 Sethronu wrote:
I can certainly picture a bunch of trolls doing something like that 'for fun' in a not too far future.
I can garuntee that 4chan or somethingawful will organize some kind of event to make a point about this. As someone said earlier, all they need to do is send a fake death threat to every Bob McBlizzardemployee that lives in the general area of Blizz HQ if they want to get the point accross.
I've had enough relatives and friends get their ID's stolen. There's no way this giant breach of privacy will go by unnoticed. |
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| dbddbddb Singapore. July 07 2010 02:02. Posts 926 | Profile # |
| With the right sources, all your personal info such as your address, contact number, current job, relatives/friends contacts can be found out with just your name. This is going to be a DISASTER. |
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| Kambing United States. July 07 2010 02:02. Posts 1084 | Profile # |
An attempt at a productivity comment: since battle.net accounts already grant us access to blizzard games, I am more than perfectly happy for battle.net to not use RealIDs on the forums and instead give out game bans for people that troll.
Net effect: heavy incentive to not be a dick on the forums, and everyone gets their anonymity if they want it.Last edit: 2010-07-07 02:03:55 |
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| ZinY Belgium. July 07 2010 02:03. Posts 119 | Profile # | |
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| Jantix United States. July 07 2010 02:03. Posts 48 | Profile # |
On July 07 2010 01:48 keV. wrote:
Show nested quote +On July 07 2010 01:45 ViRo wrote:
On July 07 2010 01:41 ShineShineBear wrote:
Seriously what is there to be so afraid of? If you are a civil poster, who cares? Can advertisers find out who you are based on your name only?
Go to http://www.yellowpages.com/findaperson then type in the name and there you go.
Once, they find out your name and location you can pretty much sabotage someones life. A simple google search would turn up my school. To:<my school> From:<my name> I put a bomb in the building. - <my name> Will that put me in jail? No. Will it fuck up my life and make living generally inconvenient for the next however long? Yes. All because Dr. Asshole didn't like what I had to say about zealot balance. You tell me if that is a fair trade.
Sounds like you shouldn't have given your school your real name...
Really, there are so many bigger issues with internet security/privacy than this..
If somebody wants to hurt you or screw you over.. your name on battle.net forums isn't going to change anything.
If you are worried about losing your job because of stuff you post.. stop posting it under a fake name, it can still come back to haunt you.
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| Mesha Bosnia-Herzegovina. July 07 2010 02:03. Posts 434 | Profile Blog # |
I will post. I just don't care anymore. Although i agree with most of people wanting anonymity i also think it's time for actual people stand behind their comments even if all of this is a scam.
It's mostly bunch of kids anyway. It's maybe time to admit it. |
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| Pigge Sweden. July 07 2010 02:03. Posts 85 | Profile # |
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. 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.
employers arent 30 year old cool guys that know what games are and dont care about if you post on game forums or not, they are like my current boss, 50+ years old and think that WoW is that insanely stupid thing that takes up his sons entire life, from his experiences, him seeing me posting about WoW and actively knowing that i play WoW he will judge me and think im unserious. |
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| SichuanPanda Canada. July 07 2010 02:03. Posts 1542 | Profile Blog # |
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. 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.
This goes against the entire spirit of the internet. You should be allowed to make a pseudonym that is not linked in anyway to your real name, and say whatever the fuck you want. That's the point of forums and the internet, and if companies follow in Blizzard's footsteps they are going to ruin it for all of us. I really can't believe a internet user especially one on TL, would agree with such a foolish attempt to get used to use Facebook or other social networking features.
Guess what? When I log on SC2 I want to see the people I PLAY SC2 with, not the hundreds of IRL friends from Facebook, and not all the people on my MSN list. Many of them actually HATE Starcraft, and RTS games in general, but rest assured they would still interrupt me in-game to talk about something trivial (which is what most of my Facebook convos are). There is a time and a place for small talk, and that is AFTER I'm done playing for the day and I go on Facebook or MSN.
Simple as this - we should have an option. Being forced to use or not to use Real ID is not fair at all, and there is no way it could help improve the experience of being on bnet forums. In fact it would probably be worse because people will attribute everything you say on there to be your IRL personality, which in many cases is not the same as people's forum personality. |
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| Barrin United States. July 07 2010 02:03. Posts 4196 | Profile Blog # |
Why.. the.. hell.. .... So any potential employer I meet who googles my name will almost certainly find this page. I am no flamer or anything, but I like to make long posts and argue with people who need to be argued with, and I have no intention of letting any potential employer know that.
What the fuck. lol. |
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 NonY July 07 2010 02:04. Posts 6923 | Profile Blog # |
Actually this makes it so there's a chance that I would post on the forums. They are a cesspool right now. Adding some accountability is a change in the right direction.
I've never liked the idea of using aliases and anonymity for socializing. For straight-up gaming, yeah it's fine. But gaming hasn't been just straight-up gaming for at least a decade now. |
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| yoshi_yoshi United States. July 07 2010 02:04. Posts 434 | Profile # |
| This is the stupidest thing ever. Who wants to show up in google with their posts regarding a computer game? |
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| RaiderRob Netherlands. July 07 2010 02:04. Posts 357 | Profile # |
| Plenty of reasons for not posting under your real name even if you're not doing anything you're ashamed of. For example it's not uncommon for women to not reveal themselves as women on gaming forums as to be treated normal instead of getting smilies thrown at them by insecure boys. That gets kinda hard when next to your Protoss icon it says Louise Fieldings. |
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| Roggay Switzerland. July 07 2010 02:04. Posts 4757 | Profile # |
This is just stupid, blizzard's forums will be deserted (and they already aren't great atm).
And I just refuse to give out personnal informations like that (always hated facebook and such). |
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| BeMannerDuPenner Germany. July 07 2010 02:05. Posts 5146 | Profile Blog # |
On July 07 2010 01:58 Tray wrote:
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...
ooooorr instead of forcing evry single customer into exposing his real name if he just wants to post a bug in the forums they could just hire some students to do some moderating?
you said it yourself. bnet forums are the worst moderated forums ever.wheres the problem with forumbanning evry tard in there?
btw whats even more fun is that one of the guys i used to play wow with got instaforum banned for posting someones real name once (some server flamer war...whatever). now they the force the exact same thing on evryone in their forums. hilarious :D
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| Ghad Norway. July 07 2010 02:05. Posts 2542 | Profile Blog # |
| How about this. I dislike a person, create a b.net account with his name, and then go and post some incriminating bullshit. |
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| Maggeus France. July 07 2010 02:07. Posts 275 | Profile # |
I'm personnally more of a sceptic guy... But I'm unsure what to think of this.
It may be a great idea, in fact, I think it is an already good idea since troll would be finally put to a rest, or at least a lot more than now.
But of course, many people would boycott it. Still, not sure if the guys who'll boycott are those who'll be miss. If you know what I mean. And ofc, privacy MATTERS.
( I c wat you did ther )Last edit: 2010-07-07 02:09:16 |
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| Backpack United States. July 07 2010 02:07. Posts 1760 | Profile Blog # |
On July 07 2010 02:04 Roggay wrote:
This is just stupid, blizzard's forums will be deserted (and they already aren't great atm).
And I just refuse to give out personnal informations like that (always hated facebook and such).
Do you refuse to use credit cards? Do you always pay in cash?
If you are rude to your waiter at a restaurant does he track you down and yadadada?
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| McDonalds Liechtenstein. July 07 2010 02:07. Posts 2244 | Profile # |
On July 07 2010 02:02 Ghad wrote:
Show nested quote +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.
Nobody is forcing you to. Sorry if you have been made to feel embarrassed about something you enjoy though, I guess.
I hope you haven't "liked" anything on Facebook because all of that stuff is hardwired to be public now. |
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