Well the reason I used the “boiling the frog” approach is because that’s how people describe enacting social change. It’s become a lot more common of a phrase in the modern day. It is a bit creepy if you read too much into it. It’s mostly just an analogy to illustrate that gradual change is less likely to produce a negative reaction than an immediate change out of nowhere.
Hey good job! Glad you are happy with a skill you worked to cultivate. ^.^ It’s just general approach to life, work at anything and if you want to give it the effort to see results and not quit because it wasn’t perfect the first time around, you’ll improve. Speed of improvement seldom matters, what matters is improving. Plus it’s a huge confidence boost. Take it from someone who tried weightlifting for a year going through an intense phase of dysphoria. Couldn’t even lift the damn bar without weights on a bench press but as months went on and I was able to do more and more weight I was immediately full of confidence every time I went in there eager to see if I could raise my maximum even just a slight bit.
It does seem a high percentage of hidden profiles are those trolling or activing negatively on others, not all of course.
That said, hidden profiles don’t really prevent anything, armory can still easily be found on them with a minor amount of work. For posts all you have to do is click the little magnifying glass on the top right of the forums, options, and then type the name in the ‘posted by’ box, and click the portrait that matches the person posting and you have post history (which works just as well with classic characters, for post history anyway).
Sure but that’s why I talked about the merits of the post. Notice how your argument intended to be absurd offered no actual evidence? The merits are low regardless of your credentials.
Meanwhile a scientist who has studied it would not need to inform me of their being a scientist. They would be able to back up their talking points with data about why the sun is not in fact a giant ball of marshmallows.
Obviously incorrect posts don’t get downvoted into oblivion but it’s not like they suddenly would if people could stop hiding behind alts and making their profile private. People wouldn’t behave any differently if we could see exactly how much experience a player had.
I think looking at profile is relevant at times. I have practically 0 pvp experience, it’s not a part of how I play the game. However if I’m stupid enough to babble on about pvp balance when I myself don’t play or even know that aspect of the game I 100% deserve to be called out.
usually it’s cowards, trolls, and spineless people that hide profiles. Though there are a few that hide profiles and say they’re super high rating for mythics, arenas, mythic raiding
I had my profile hidden for years until someone called me out on it. I probably thought it concerned RL privacy when I created the account. I saw no reason to actively hide my characters so I went in and opened it, it was only hidden because privacy online generally sounds like a good thing, especially if you don’t care to think it through.
Haven’t had anything different since I opened my account, other than one person in classic noticing when I posted on that character, but for all I know that could have happened anyway. It was no big deal, so I never bothered re-hiding it.
The only reason people hide their profiles is when they’re talking about stuff they actually don’t have experience in and think their raw feelings on the matter are enough when it’s not, and don’t wanna argue to justify it.
It’s like 1400 people saying 2400 in arena is a joke, anyone can do it, and PvP’ers have it too easy as a result meanwhile that person has never been above 1550 and their Step Into The Arena achievement is dated back in 2012. Those are the people who deliberately hide their profiles.
There’s a severe difference between checking your credibility and just going out of their way to badmouth you. If someone when I was playing OW tried to tell me that Widowmaker is useless against Pharah, I went to check their performance. Because Widowmaker counters Pharah if you’re good with her. The Pharah doesn’t even get to play the game. Though IDK if that’s changed, last I played was 2016.
The issue is some people on both sides of the argument misuse it. Like some people will look for irrelevant things to make you look dumb and win an argument by making you unwanted to be associated with (Like how Cancel Culture operates) vs discrediting you based on provable lack of credentials. Then because people do the former, everyone acts like trying to question someone’s credentials to back up their opinion is ad hominem.
It’s like High School Debate class where my teacher brought me in one day to kind of observe how the students were doing and critique them. One student made a point, the other refuted it with a study. The first person immediately demanded to know what study, looked at the author’s name and said “Oh yeah well they’re a bigot so their opinion isn’t valid.” as it would change anything about the study. People default to character assassination when they can’t refute anything, but usually I see people confuse what is character assassination and discrediting based on credentials and just throw it all into character assassination.
Like a certain dwarf hunter here who makes really stupid opinions on things and I refer to their logic as stupid then they spend 3 replies screaming that I called them stupid. Like learn to read.
This also gets into situations where things can be different at a different level of play.
Widowmaker has a higher than normal skill floor, making her just borderline useless in general if you aren’t good with her where you could do much better with another character you were mediocre at but was easier to play.
It makes the credentials of the person not as relevant so long as they have some experience with the content. A player being bad might explain why they think Widowmaker can’t counter Pharah, but it doesn’t make the opinion less valid. It just needs the caveat of “at low level play” added to the end.
This happens very rarely on WoW. Blizzard takes harassment very serious. Continued harassment is an insanely quick way to lose an account. It’s almost a certainty that nobody on WoW was stalked for years.
Unless we’re talking about transmogs or gearing advice I just don’t see the need to click through to anything. Can’t bother getting that invested anymore.
Eh, but then you’re just kind of disregarding objective cases. Like Pharah is specifically designed to be countered by anything that uses “hitscan” which means when you click, the bullet hits instantly, no travel time so she can’t bob in the air and dodge the headshot. It would be more apt to say that Pharah is stronger in low rating/against unskilled players.
Since it isn’t like the fact Widowmaker counters Pharah goes away because low rating if that makes any sense.
It’s more that in this case a lot of the countering is derived from player skill rather than character kit.
For example Winston is strong vs Genji even if your Winston isn’t very good. A Widowmaker is not strong vs Pharah if your Widowmaker isn’t very good.
It’s a case with any of the “countered by accuracy” characters. Things simply don’t play out in reality at low level play the same as they do in high level play.
The odd peep that replies to rate the mog above you with a hidden profile is always annoying. Otherwise I just assume they have some kind of OCD or PTSD.
