No no, I meant that if I ignore someone, they shouldn’t be blocked from seeing my posts.
You’re fine. I’m sorry work makes you grouchy. 
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Which is a herculean amount of effort for someone to go through just to pester someone. Scan through every post on every forum that was ever made, trying to suss out other alts? If you spent enough time on it you could make a statue out of a person using individual slices of Kraft American Cheese if you wanted to too and leave it in effigy on their front lawn as a form of harassment. Should we stop the production of Kraft cheese slices?
Which is reportable as ongoing harassment and easily dealt with by each of your alts reporting and putting one of that person’s alts on ignore on each of your alts that they whisper.
Which is reportable as ongoing harassment and the guild leader can put that person on ignore and report them.
Which is reportable as ongoing harassment, and the raid leader can kick that person from the group, ignore them and report them.
Which is reportable as ongoing harassment. Are you seeing a trend?
You can build a shelf with a screwdriver, or you can stab someone in the temple with it, but that doesn’t mean that we stop making screwdrivers. Outlier cases of highly unusual and unbelievably dedicated bad behavior shouldn’t be used to dictate what tools can and can’t be used by the vast majority of players to control their experience in the game and on the forums.
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so you admit that it is possible, thank you for confirming that my proposition is correct.
that’s all i really needed…
basically you’re saying “oh these five people want account wide ignore, so it doesn’t matter if you are correct, we are going to disagree with it anyway so that we get what WE want.”
And you admit that it’s just as possible to do it already, right?
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so you’re saying, oh players can already find alts and harrass them in game, so its completely fine if we make it easier to do??
Nope.
I’m saying that it’s better to give player tools to deal with a problem that actually exists than to allow that problem to run wild because maybe somehow someone will do the practically impossible to abuse the solution in a way that doesn’t work outside of very specific conditions and massive amounts of time and resources.
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yes, that is exactly what you are saying…
you are saying, oh its fine if people can harrass players in game by finding alts already, so let’s just ignore that because it doesn’t fit my agenda and what I want
Nope
I’m saying that we need to make it harder for people to harass others in the forums by getting rid of the fact that it’s trivially easy to bypass ignores forever. You seem very very upset at the idea of people being allowed to actually ignore someone and keep making up imaginary situations that don’t actually work to fearmonger about such a little thing
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yes, you are basically saying this
“well i want account wide ignore, so i dont care if it makes it worse for people in game”
One, your battletag isn’t private information. If it were, Blizzard wouldn’t use it as an account identifier on every other forum without violating privacy laws.
Two, it allows people to request your permission to contact you in-game. If you ignore or deny the request, they still can’t contact you.
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Not at all.
I’m saying you’re lying about most of these things. Like how will it let someone know you’re in a raid?
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my btag is private outside of game… go ahead, if my btag is public… tell me what my btag is right now
Like I said before .
They say the solution will cause said problem because they already do the said problem and know the solution would stop them from doing so
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I feel like I should illustrate what bait looks like to folks, but I think most here know. I just wish folks would learn not to bite. 
We really do need some major changes on the forum, though. This thread, and all prior threads similar to this one but regarding a different main topic, have illustrated this fact time and time again.
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They also need to make it so the player can prevent people on B-Tag from viewing who their other friends are. Why? It keeps stalkers from harassing their friends / befriending their friends to use as pawns for further harassment. Call it the Moaka rule. (Not a real name. Name taken from the fictious name used during a Preach Podcast that dealt with such a player)
I outright refuse to use B-Tag until this vulnerability is addressed.
I believe this is already a setting. It has to be done via the friend’s side, though, iirc. Something about friend of friend display, I’d have to dig into the settings to find it.
Edit: found it, I think.
When you’re going into your Account settings, go to Privacy and Communication → Friend of Friend Suggestions. It basically says whether you want your Btag to show up when someone does a friend of friend search.
Not entirely what you wanted, but I suppose in some ways it could help? You’d need basically most of your friends to check it off, though.
Edit 2: Tarrok has pictures!
We totally get that you think that makes it “Private information”, but unfortunately, it’s not considered private by Blizzard. Since they’re the only ones who matter (since they invented it and designed it to be public) they can still add it to these forums with no worries at all.
Your imaginary witch hunts for alts via a global ignore system is just silly. There are much stricter in-game consequences to harassment (like losing your account completely) than there will ever be on the forums.
But you’re going to have to go on ignore now. Even after adding you, I still firmly believe I only have one actual person on ignore…and like 3 alts. This is why I’m all for a global ignore and the implementation of b-tags on the forums. Can’t wait to see them added just like all the other Blizz forums have them 
You know, because they’re not “private”.!
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if btag is public information, tell me what my btag is…if its public, then u can find it right now, right?
No I’m talking about other people’s ability to click ‘view friends’ and see who else I am B-Tagged with. Are you sure this blocks that functionality? I don’t want people creeping into my family life.
Lets also not forget that Cogshanks was made by a loser who had a desire to list people’s forum alts and they were actually making people pay them in game gold if they wanted to be kept off the list. Thank goodness Blizzard finally fixed that. They SHOULD of banned the maker though.