I’m sure someone does. If people don’t think forum changes are a good or worthwhile idea then they’ll let you know.
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Absolutely NOT.
Well that’s a problem to me, as I don’t want anything to do with the real me or my real self to be associated with an anonymous only avatar, privacy is far too important these days.
Too many people think it’s okay to destroy someone’s reputation over something they did 10 or 20 years ago.
Indeed, why are you wasting time answering him?
+1 for account-wide ignore, although I highly doubt I’d ever have to use it- my in-game interactions never are that bad.
It’d be way more useful on the forums lol, too many trolls here, and people who aren’t interested in actual discussion of WoW, just wanna stir the pot instead.
A difference of opinion is not an attack, but way too many people take it personally.
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Oh come on everyone, where is your sense of humor, this Sunday all that’s happening is someone saying that swearing should be allowed in-game, some priest saying that nobody below 1600 rating should be allowed to post, don’t any of you think any of that’s funny??
I will try to laugh in silence I guess.
Oh wait…I just realized it’s Monday sorry…got my days of the week mixed up.
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Lol I also guess it’s hard to portray comedy through text sometimes, I get that too.
Sometimes people make joke threads but they don’t come off that way when read aloud.
Or maybe I’m just too dense to get the jokes, lol.
They should honestly do away with the trust system. It holds no value and most people post pics to troll other.
I agree with the root cause of the thread. Blizzard forums are chock full of alts or sock puppets. I’ve lost count on the wow forums how many times I’ve had a “couple people” come after me for disagreeing with someone only to discover it’s the same person swapping alts. I’ve even seen a thread where someone exposed a mvp who got caught doing that in the cs forum, trying to gain fame.
I agree with you that I wouldn’t want it showing anything personal like my email or what-not. People on these kinds of games are vindictive.
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Agreed; that’s been my experience.
This is because in wow, unlike other Blizzard games, you are competing with other guilds for guild members and whatnot. That’s what makes WoW a different kettle of fish to Diablo, Starcraft etc.
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Ahh alright then. Doesn’t sounds like a bad idea.
As we have EXPLAINED to you MANY MANY times. Being ignored does not give out private information.
That a you problem.
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Thankfully, not only has that not been suggested, it would actually land Blizzard in legal trouble if they started providing personal info like an email address.
What they could do instead is include battle tags since that’s what they’re designed for and used for on all the other blizz forums.
As a regular poster in CS for many years, I’d love to see you back up this claim.
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I don’t think they were insinuating that they were. There are some forums I’ve visited where you’re identified by your email address.
Eh, kinda? At some point, some people just need to let things go.
Anecdote alert. I found a facebook group for people who played a game I played back in 1999/2000. Saw a lot of old acquaintances that were both good and bad from back then. One tried to start something because we disagreed back then. I mean, if you’re so sore about disagreeing with someone on the internet 25 years ago, you have issues.
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THis whole thread is about account wide ignore for the forums . This thread has nothing to do with account wide ignore in game .
I believe there is a separate one for in game.
Well that makes it unanimous, then, because nobody else wants anything to do with you, either.
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Great. So why are you against account wide ignores then, since account wide ignores adds stronger privacy for you against others?
Why are you against BTags then since BTags has stronger privacy than your character-server?
Like, you say privacy is everything, but yet, you seen to be against anything that can make privacy stronger for you and others. Because we all know the full real reason as to why: You just prefer to engage in toxicity and bad behaviour, some of which, is also breaking laws in a lot of countries, such as stalking for example, when you’ve admitted to something you like to switch around to try and contact someone who has blocked you.
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They really don’t care about privacy .
They are just blowing smoke using that as an excuse to hopefully prevent Blizz from doing something that would protect other people’s privacy from her
To be honest I’m not sure she could tell the truth if her life depended on it .
There others I have ignored but out of all of them she is probably the one person here I would gladly never interact with again on any level if account wide ignores are done .
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Because on the old forum when someone would ignore my alts, people would mention how my other alts I spoke on would mysteriously disappear when I would speak on them, and I hated that.
Call-outs should not be allowed.
Not against btags.
My view on that is that it’s only personal if I was doing it in-game, by posting on a public forum no laws are broken as you are consenting to everyone reading what you have to say.
I would suggest people maybe think twice about posting on certain places on the internet.
As an aside though, what you say is a grey area legally I think, say for example someone blocked me on a chat forum, if I was to delete my account and make a new one later, I wouldn’t see that as wrong, as that would be my choice to make a fresh start, now I admit of course if it so happened in that situation that someone that blocked me got in touch with me and we were suddenly on better terms, that would be a good outcome, they could always block me again if they figured out it was me,
The problem with blocking/ignoring is that it’s SO final…I only ever do that under extreme circumstances. Funnily enough most people that have me on ignore/block on the internet I am actually fine with anyway.
Funny, that.
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Knowing someones alts is not a call out. If switching between alts, and someone calls you out with such behaviour, is not against the CoC. How ever, if someone does call out your alts on the forums, then yes, it is against the CoC under Harassment, though this depends on the context of the call out.
Your behaviour here says otherwise. Want me to also link the other thread to say otherwise?
You do know Blizzard takes a strong stance on online harassment with there services. Because if Blizzard didn’t, then every country, would be taking out anger on Blizzard, and Blizzard could face charges on the globe for enabling this sort of behaviour online. Take from here in Australia for example, it would fall under online stalking. If a person blocks you, they block you. You should have no right to have a way to bypass a block to even attempt to contact them.
Because bypassing someone ignore to even try and contact them, it falls under harassment here on the forums. Outside of the forums, depending on country, trying to contact someone who has blocked you can fall under stalking. Though everywhere has different laws to what authorities would do if caught with stalking. But the point is, engaging in that sort of behaviour, Blizzard does take a strong stance on, because even Blizzard knows what would happen if governments from around the world would do if Blizzard didn’t.
No, I would suggest you think twice before engaging in toxicity. Because the forums is not a place where your supposed to be toxic towards others, and engage in such bad behaviour.
It depends on the purpose of the account. If you delete your account, then at a later date, decide to re-sign up and create a new account to play WoW, then no, that isn’t considered as doing anything wrong. However, if you delete an account because of someone blocking you, and you create a new account to communicate with such person, then yes, your found with harassment, and if the process keeps repeating, Blizzard will report it to the Authorities. And if found to sign up here in Australia, they’ll report it to the Australian Authorities. Because then that is where the stalking comes in.
There is no problem with blocking or ignoring someone. It is by everyone’s choice to whether they block or ignore someone. Everyone here on the forums has every right in to do so, for any reason, or no reason at all. There is no rules in ignoring or blocking people.
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Doesn’t sound right.
Either none of that type of behavior is acceptable or it is. Creates its own brand of toxicity.
Which is why I’ve been calling for updates to the CoC.