Blizzard plans to reveal poster's real names on forums. Rage ensues.

Funka Genocide · 07-07-2010, 10:05 AM

I'm actually all for this change. I must sadly admit I play the game and am a bit of an avid theory crafter. I've written some guides that have been made sticky threads (mainly for warriors, bless their berserker, steel clad hearts) and the community as a whole is attrocious.

I never really understood why they never seemed terribly interested in visible moderation. Everything that happens (which isn't much) is always shadowy and behind the scenes. There's no mod posts, no warnings, its just suddenly blammo: thread is deleted and some posters aren't posting anymore.

I guess they don't feel like paying people to moderate an internet forum (I can kind of see the reasoning there, moderating those forums properly would be a full time job and honestly, who wants to pay people to press buttons on a forum interface?) and its not as if they can simply elevate users to mod status. You would see the advent of super cliques and arbitrary bannings before long and a complete break down of the system.

They've always had a real hands off approach to the community, and sadly the community is a disgusting rabble of morons and inciteful e-rage addicts. At least now people won't be emboldened to run their mouths on level 1 alts.

Its way too easy to hide behind another character on those forums. Now people can be held accountable for their posts and the bad apples can hopefully be weeded out. Although, in a community like that, we're talking about a variance in rotten fruit, as there's very little of the wholesome delicious variety at the best of times.

07-07-2010, 10:05 AM	#5
Funka Genocide Sent to the cornfield Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Las Vegas Posts: 4,566	I'm actually all for this change. I must sadly admit I play the game and am a bit of an avid theory crafter. I've written some guides that have been made sticky threads (mainly for warriors, bless their berserker, steel clad hearts) and the community as a whole is attrocious. I never really understood why they never seemed terribly interested in visible moderation. Everything that happens (which isn't much) is always shadowy and behind the scenes. There's no mod posts, no warnings, its just suddenly blammo: thread is deleted and some posters aren't posting anymore. I guess they don't feel like paying people to moderate an internet forum (I can kind of see the reasoning there, moderating those forums properly would be a full time job and honestly, who wants to pay people to press buttons on a forum interface?) and its not as if they can simply elevate users to mod status. You would see the advent of super cliques and arbitrary bannings before long and a complete break down of the system. They've always had a real hands off approach to the community, and sadly the community is a disgusting rabble of morons and inciteful e-rage addicts. At least now people won't be emboldened to run their mouths on level 1 alts. Its way too easy to hide behind another character on those forums. Now people can be held accountable for their posts and the bad apples can hopefully be weeded out. Although, in a community like that, we're talking about a variance in rotten fruit, as there's very little of the wholesome delicious variety at the best of times.