If they have a second account they can get your details through that 2nd account by impersonating as someone else.
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I keep forgetting to check in regularly here since the title doesnât actively remind me, even though this is in my bookmarks. 
Anyway, yesterdayâs poll and the likely deluge of garbage to come today on Sunday are evidence why we need a unified forum account - possibly Btags, as they would be easiest to implement. Rather than giving people essentially 160 separate âaccountsâ due to how the forums treat characters.
Iâm just going to point out that people can already send maizou btag friends requests without knowing their btag (and in the process, discover it) if the want to (I donât know why you would, but thatâs neither here nor there)
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Toxic is a word that should be reserved for describing a type of waste. Using it outside of that context is cringe-inducing.
People can already witch hunt, use in game mail to harass, and whisper you on multiple throw away characters in game. This is right now without Btags.
I mean you can do things already without knowing a Btag.
I can add each character a person post with to my in game ignore list manually. (needs to be account wide).
Just type in character - server and your set to go, all you need to do is hover over the character icon or quote to see what server they are on.
See no Btag required, I think you would have to do this for each character and only block that specific character.
Simple solution donât post with your main, post on an alt that you donât play anymore and donât sockpuppet. People only check your character only if they suspect sockpuppeteering.
I wanted to add this to the thread that was locked, Iâm assuming this thread is on a 30 day deletion timer, but I wanted folks to know that this is somewhat solutionable to ignore people in game without Btags.
But, yeah the in game ignore needs updating too.
Oh I am sorry. I will never use that word again since you informed me on how you feel.
Thank you. Take care.
This is one of the top things I want to see ended w a solution from blizzard & once again Iâll just say the easiest route seems to be battle tags to get that end result.
As far as partial battle tags Iâm a bit cautious bcz of how unhinged some of the WoW community is when it comes to stalking / impersonating in that they could simply name themselves the same battle tag but bcz we canât see the full battle tag they could look like they were impersonating you. So if not full battle tags as the solution at that point id rather the alternative idea from people who want a solid forum account which seems extra work.
Ehh, I also check sockpuppeting if they post something egregiously stupid.
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Assuming it will work the same way it works on the forums for all other blizzard games, the numbers would go where your server is now.
So iâd be able to see what the numbers are, in the exact same place where I can see that youâre toon is on Wyrmrest Accord.
My point was more to Maizous alternative of partial battle tags.
I was saying bcz we wouldnât be able to see in total that someone could if they wanted try to impersonate you still to some degree which some parts of the WoW community are very unhinged & like that Iâve experienced that myself my friends have experienced that some people are varying levels of unhinged & sock puppets are just one aspect of that.
That being said again my point was to Maizous alternative, like for me I prefer a full battle tag route, but for Maizous point I was saying my alternative to battle tags would preferably be then a forum ID account.
Ok question .
How does it create the ability for harrasment since other Blizzard Forums use them?
Letâs be honest if they were being used to harrass people someone or some site like wowhead would of had an article about it by now.
As for the number part of Btags they are randomly generated and in the other forums donât appear unless you mouse over the name and then they appear in the bottom left of the screen like char-serv does in here.
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Unironically using any variation of âcringeâ is cringe-inducing. In this context, toxic is apt and descriptive.
Thumbs up to BTags for the WoW Forums.
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on the eu side of things they now have a Community Discords Program
Introducing the Community Discords Program! (blizzard.com)
so at least they are taking steps over there for building a more positive community
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Though wonder why only for EU. What about NA?
https://twitter.com/magdalenadk/status/1654721349431226368?s=46&t=P-saCrhTpuw_LtMbEaex-w
https://twitter.com/zenironkeg/status/1654924855358390272?s=46&t=P-saCrhTpuw_LtMbEaex-w
Everything I have seen has been very negative surrounding that because you agree to never offer any criticism what so ever towards blizzard and people are very much side eyeing it until that part is removed or changed.
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Thank you ^^
Also if you click on the second persons tweet under it they explain how this binds you into never offering criticism
https://twitter.com/ZenIronkeg/status/1654924883913240577?s=20
but I find it very suspicious until further notice, the program I mean theyâre rolling out for discord communities.
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Yeah, I would avoid that.
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I donât really blame them though. Given with the reputation behind past decisions.
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