Everything has its own context. Call outs even have its own context. In otherwords, it is the context of the call out on whether it breaches the CoC or not.
Look at 2 examples: Lets say I created a thread, and I’ll use you for an example:
Thread A would say:
People should invite Ardmccloud to help them, he is a great guy, and he does help you push your keys.
Thread B would say
Don’t queue with Ardmccloud, he’ll trick you to helping with the key, but will leave the group in the middle of the dungeon.
Which context of the call out would be breaching the CoC? Context is everything, which is why it isn’t on the Code of Conduct, because the context has all different meanings when it is calling out to whether it breaches the Code of Conduct or not.
I don’t think you understand though. Call outs are an entirely different topic in itself. And it goes into context, because there is many different meanings to call outs. If you want to stalk people or witch hunt others, than good for you. What people want is more security over the information they see, whether it be through an account wide ignore, or just implementing BTags on the forums to ignore the user.
It is not my job to police on behaviours of anyone. It is my job to monitor my own behaviour. It is the same with everyone here on the forums. We’re all responsible for our own behaviours. If you think someone is breaching the CoC, then report it, and move on. Not that hard to do.
They’re not against them. They just don’t want their privacy to be put at risk with any kind of suggestion someone comes up with. I’ve seen suggestions on here that do that. One was someone saying to expose everyone’s email address.
It’s been in dire need for years. It’s too vague, generic, ambiguous, and convoluted.
Btags is fine. I’m talking about actually showing people someone’s email address, which was one suggestion that someone made. That’s a big fat NO for me too.
I, along with the person above, are not saying that account wide ignore is not a good thing, it would be very beneficial, just not in the ways that some are wanting that reveal things that others do not need.
It’d be the best thing since we don’t have cogshanks anymore to reveal it when people try and pull the wool over your eyes. One thing I’ve read that some people are doing is purchasing multiple licenses to games (some multiboxers) so they can have multiple “separate” forum accounts.
People just need a sub, they allow free trials to post.
Blizzard needs to make it where you are a certain level or new expansion purchase to post.
We have an example here where someone made a throw away account and didn’t have to purchase Dragon Flight. They made a dragon and a draenei both at starter areas.
I think the Btag is good enough at least playing whack an account is not as bad as playing whack an alt.
I’m not sure if Warbands will be effective on the forums as well as in game, we’ll find out when it happens.
Summer is going to be interesting to watch to see what happens.
Yes, it has been brought up before. Of course, over the course of the past few years, but people have been adamant that it’s the “best way” when it’s not. You do not need that information.
Feel free to link where it was suggested in this thread that we move to emails. I’ve tried searching for it and found people saying that they wouldn’t want that, yet not a single post suggesting that we should use email.
As I mentioned previously, Blizzard wouldn’t be legally allowed to do so. That means that it’s not something anyone has to worry about anyway.
What we have seen in this thread is a gross misunderstanding of what “Personal Information” is. Some posters (which are happily on my ignore list) seem to think that their battle tag is private. Blizzard disagrees and designed it specifically to be public.
This thread itself is actually about account-wide ignore though, and not about b-tags or email addresses. Let’s try to stay on topic.
You’re BattleTag is just your Blizzard account Nickname. You know, something similar in place like SteamID, or XBox Gamertag.
You can not reveal people’s personal information or email addresses through someone’s BTag. I’ve linked mine several times, and nobody has exposed any of my own personal details yet.
No, but the comment of “privacy”, there is no privacy in regards to BTags. Otherwise, if there was, it wouldn’t mention anything about being a public nickname when signing up to Blizzard, BTag name in account settings, or in the Support Article. Everything in relation to privacy actually, is listed in here.