Did you miss the fact that someone said I wanted someone to not live anymore? I know you’re going to say no because you’re picking sides but it was uncalled for.
How do you know for sure this will happen? Do you know how many moderators there are? Do you work for Blizzard?
Jaesears is doing all of their friends a service. It’s something many of us do. We’re interested in other people’s well being.
What you’re doing is proving you care nothing about other people who post here and their well being.
Despite its positive uses, anonymity and identity shielding can also spur on harmful behaviours and generate new forms of harm, particularly against at-risk individuals and communities.
Anonymity is one of several factors that have been highlighted by our own investigations as a tactic used by those who seek to harm or abuse others online. There are two main reasons for this.
Firstly, being anonymous can make perpetrators feel uninhibited by the usual social standards of behaviour. By hiding their real identity or using fake profiles they can act without the fear of being judged for their actions or punished.
Secondly, being able to hide their real identity allows individuals and crime syndicates to pretend to be someone else and use that as a way to exploit others.
The ease with which anonymous, fake, imposter and impersonator accounts can be generated is a contributing factor to cyberbullying of children and adult cyber abuse, as reflected in a significant number of the complaints we receive through our reporting schemes.
Most image-based abuse complaints to eSafety relate to anonymous accounts on social media platforms. Image-based abuse means sharing or threatening to share an intimate image or video without the consent of the person shown. It includes sexual extortion, when scammers demand money or more intimate images.
Most investigations into child sexual abuse material involve individuals posting the content online anonymously. These investigations have shown that content contributors will go to great lengths to remain anonymous, often using one or more anonymising security measure to hide their identities.
Sexual predators and scammers also commonly use anonymous, fake, imposter and impersonator accounts to lure victims and gain their trust. For example, a sexual predator may use an avatar in a game to pretend they are the same age and gender as a child so they can become a fake friend and groom them for sexual interaction, which is online child sexual abuse. In catfishing cases, scammers often create a fake profile and pretend to have a personal history and characteristics that are attractive to the victim, so they are more likely to engage online and not be suspicious while in the relationship.
Some chatrooms and message board sites are specifically created for anonymous communication, allowing the fast and wide spread of conspiracy theories, discriminatory commentary and illegal and harmful materials, and even inciting acts of abuse, violence and terrorism.
Interaction with an anonymous account online can be very distressing for victims who are targeted by abuse. The fear that the perpetrator can continue to target the victim using another anonymous or fake account adds to the harm. For victims, anonymity can create barriers to reporting. This is because perpetrators using imposter or fake accounts are not easily identifiable. These fake accounts can be quickly discarded and replaced with new anonymous accounts, making techniques such as blocking and muting ineffective.
It is very difficult for regulators and law enforcement to identify and prosecute individuals and crime syndicates using fake accounts. It also makes it almost impossible for social media services and other users to deal with abusers breaching the terms of service, through strategies such as blocking and suspension, as well as preventing, detecting and removing multiple accounts operated by one user.
While conflict, harassment and targeted abuse are social and cultural problems, the role that anonymity plays in facilitating antisocial and illegal behaviour has been a growing cause for concern. However, it is important to note that preventing or limiting anonymity and identity shielding online would not put a stop to all online abuse, and that online abuse and hate speech are not always committed by anonymous or fake account holders.
Nevertheless, more can be done to ensure anonymity is not used to allow harms to freely occur. Steps can be taken by social media platforms to verify accounts before users start to operate them, or take down accounts that violate the terms of service and prevent them from resurfacing.
A balance is needed, where the misuse of anonymity and identity shielding is restricted without removing any of the legitimate benefits.
No. It’s not worry about ‘having more people on their side,’ it’s the fabrication of ‘people.’ Are those individuals liking my posts me or another account’s player characters? Same goes for reporting. It’s the ability of one account to “like” a post multiple times, or to report a post multiple times.
Allowing characters to individually ‘wield that power’ (I write that somewhat tongue in cheek because this is a vg forum…) where folks who only log in and use one character don’t have that ability will manipulating the forums.
You can see the OP mentioning this issue here (which i agree with them, it is an issue), with using alts to false flag, which would not be an option if “1 Btag, 1 Flag” was instituted:
People hiding on alts to create more “support” for their ideas. If your idea needs a megaphone to make it look more popular, then you should re-think your idea.
Second is people hiding on alts to evade ignores. If I ignore someone, I want to ignore that person, not just that specific character.
You might not think this is “abuse” but it’s annoying to deal with.
I don’t work for Blizzard and I’m only replying to that as I’m required to under my terms of being an MVP. And yes, I do know how few moderators there are. It’s actually why threads like this are not instantly nuked unfortunately.
Take a deep breath though Kaine. It’ll all turn out fine whether they shut these forums down completely or move to a system more like b-tags.
The crowd that wants anonymous posting tells us to ignore and report alt hoppers.
Their solution to one the problem of anonymous posting abuse will not work.