World of Warcraft Forums are f*cked Options

[sixfive]

http://wowriot.gameriot.com/blogs/American...unction?gr_i_ni

Some may know I used to play this very, very addictive game. Well it used to be that in game and in their forums you'd play and post behind a character name. They recently made a change to incorporate battle.net into the game so that you could talk to any character on any server/realm/w.e it is. To do this you have to share your email / real name with the people that are to be in contact with you. That's cool and all, completely voluntary, you don't have to share anything. It'd be nice if you could just share the account name like in Diablo 2 or SC or those bnet things.

Well, they decided to expand on that and when SC2 is released, they're making all forum posts display your "RealID" or First and Last name. So instead of posting behind an alias you post behind "First name Last name" with the option to display your alias lol. Sucks to be them. Even if I played, I got permabanned a long time ago so it wouldn't really matter to me anyway? Still, what a retarded thing to do.

Oh yeah where I was going with this post. The link above demonstrates why it's a bad idea lol. One of the CMs (community manager) decided as an act of faith to post his real name on the forums so other people wouldn't be so worried. Instead, as predicted would happen, very shortly after tons of his personal information was posted. Where he lives, info about his wife and kids, the fact that he lives with his mom?, his college roommates, who he hung out with, his myspace/twitter/fb, etc etc etc.

[sixfive]

Well... Yeah I did :) It was stupid too. Of all the things I did there, I got permabanned for joking w/ a fellow troll that I hope he gets ovarian cancer. HE.

:(

There's also the idea that if a future potential employer googles your name and finds all your shenanigans or trolling or even that you're rather addicted to an MMORPG, that might not look too good compared to some guy invisible to the internet.

Sucks for them.