Sounds like a gross oversimplification of what’s happening here.
I’ll also remind you that if your solution was guaranteed to work so well, then Blizzard would’ve already done it.
That they haven’t leaves room for plenty of doubt and skepticism.
I think that having Btags show would be a good, useful option for sight-recognition of people across their alts (which some people would actually like to have displayed about themselves), but no, it’s not necessary if we get account-wide ignore.
I’d call Btags (with numbers on hover-over or profile viewing, otherwise people could impersonate each other way too easily) being displayed under a person’s character my ideal state, but I’m only rabbling for the bare minimum of account-wide ignore if people are going to be weirdly paranoid about people knowing their Bnet ID, despite the fact that knowing it gets you no more access to a person or information about them than they already have.
It’s definitely not something I get pressed about, though, neither has anyone else that I’ve seen in the entirety of the argument going back a year and a half demanded to see anyone’s Btag, even when the argument got heated. Because we all know that it literally doesn’t do anything if you know it except give you a quick indicator that someone is the same person posting on a new character, for reasons that don’t even need to be nefarious.
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Thats what I keep saying in this thread, its easier to ignore the account then ignoring level 10 characters that can be created within seconds under in one subscription that can be used to post here.
While its true that dedicated trolls will spin up accounts, I’m not a fan of this argument because of the fact that if this is implemented, they are easily ignored compared to creating level 10 alts under one sub and because discourse treats characters as “accounts”.
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Honestly, I also think it’s good because I want to be able to switch characters while people still know it’s me. With so many alts, sometimes I want to show off my hunter or my rogue or my mage.
But then no one knows who I am and I lose all my post counts and the account level I’m trying to build. So, I just stick with the one character which kinda sucks.
EDIT: In reference to btags or having just one forum account instead of hundreds.
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Neener neener neener… I’m literally eating a taco right now. It’s my second, in fact.
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Someone woke up and chose violence 
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This. I want account-wide functionality on the forums:
- Account-wide trust levels
- Account-wide post history
- Account-wide ignores
- Account-wide flags (hopefully more of them, too)
- Account-wide likes
I’m ambivalent about Battletags on the forums. It’s not something I’m worried will be abused, because I haven’t seen any convincing argument that it can be abused. Full battletags, partial battletags, no battletags, battletags in the open, battletags only visible on mouseover. I just don’t care.
It does seem to me, though, that the easiest way to implement account-wide functionality would be to have Discourse undo the changes made specifically to the WoW forum (and only the WoW forum) that put us here; specifically, altering the WoW forums to facilitate character-based accounts rather than account-based accounts. And that means the WoW forums behave as all of Blizzard’s other forums behave. They all show the battletag when you mouseover a player’s portrait, and there is absolutely no indication that people are being harrassed, stalked or doxxed as a result. Nothing bad is happening to anybody.
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Just something I’ve picked up from my cat.
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For me it’s cause the ignores put out are all character specific and don’t carry over when I switch.
Blizz, I put them on ignore FOR A REASON.
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lol? um i think everyone knows ppl who are against this are a minority and are not loud at all so the fact they havent done anything yet is kinda telling lol. ur not runnin out of ppl ur fighting the same folks u been for over a year…not many care this much and obviously neither does blizz.
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I just want to ignore the person, which is my right to chose to ignore the person. I shouldn’t have to keep ignoring each character for the person to have a way to bypass the ignores.
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yeah this issue is not on the minds of most WoW players
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The problem though is that as I’ve explained on the previous forum, people would call out my alts, that was not fun, I didn’t like that,
Even if they made up a rule banning people from calling out alts, the fact is that some people selfishly think they are above the rules and common human decency, I don’t think I’m above the rules personally but there will always be those that do it,
So I remain strongly on the side of maximum privacy, I am frustrated with this idea that taking away people’s anonymity will somehow result in less anti-social behavior, you are always going to get jerks unfortunately,
The fact is that I may concede that anonymity and identity shielding makes it difficult for people to hold people responsible for what they say online, it also has the positive affect of protecting people’s privacy.
I would much sooner a system in place that stops anonymous users from misusing that privilege to control and abuse people, in the case of this forum, the fact is, that Blizzard reads all of it,
Did you know there are many eSafety recommendations that say to children to only use their first name to protect them from potential predators and whatnot,
And also for those that called me homophobic in the past, consider this, that some people might be afraid to express their sexuality or be ‘outed’ to their families and friends so the online space may give LGBTQ+ a safe space to explore their identities,
Whether you think I am right or wrong, I don’t just argue this case for my own selfish reasons, but to freely express ideas without risking retaliation or real life consequences in my opinion, is a good thing and something we should protect.
Now obviously, I do accept there are risks and potential harms for people for people that want to be anonymous and alt hop, so I am not saying those in the account-wide ignore cap are necessarily wrong, but I am saying there needs to be a balance!
What I would like to see, is the misuse of anonymity and identity shielding should be restricted but without removing the benefits. I don’t have the solution to that though, but the way I see it, it shouldn’t really matter who is posting what if they are not breaking the rules, are you really going to hold one particularly poster with such contempt?
Besides, they might eventually come out and admit it was them, especially if someone you have interacted with outside of WoW, so it’s not like they can hide forever if they’ve become close to you or something like that. But I guess I’ve never actually been that close to a forum user…maybe only once.
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yeah i really don’t enjoy when that happens either. it just isn’t fun.
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I’m sorry to hear that happened to you. Call outs have no place on the forums.
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I think you’re missing the point here.
Account wide ignores does not remove your privacy.
Battle tags does not remove your privacy.
You talk about wanting to remain anonymous, but neither of those things removes anonymity. There is ZERO personal information that can be gained from ignoring someone’s account. There is ZERO personal information that can be gained from knowing someone’s btag.
You seem to be mixing up the wow forums with other social media sites. You are already completely anonymous here and you will remain anonymous even if they add these features.
Your privacy isn’t at risk.
Private information, for the record, is your real name, address, phone number, age, date of birth, etc. NONE of that can be found by knowing your btag or ignoring your account.
From everything I’ve seen, it just sounds like you get salty when people ignore you and you don’t want people to have the option to cut you from their lives. You take the internet too seriously - this is coming from someone who takes the internet too seriously.
Your life will not end if someone ignores you.
Your privacy will not be invaded if someone ignores you.
I won’t be responding to you anymore because it’s clear that you either don’t understand what you’re talking about or you’re choosing to not understand for the purposes of trolling.
I truly hope you find the help you need with your self-esteem issues because, if you’re not trolling, you’ve got serious self-esteem problems - again, coming from someone who has serious self-esteem issues and can recognize it.
I’ll say it again for the people in the back.
Knowing your battletag means nothing. You are still anonymous. No one knows any personal information about you.
Account wide ignore does not take away your privacy. It does not give away personal information nor does it take away your anonymity.
#FreetheBattleTags
#AccountWideIgnoreisNeeded
Vongola#1794 is my battletag. You can find out nothing about me through this, but feel free to try if it will help appease your worries.
A battletag is no different from making a forum account (on literally any forum other than WoW) and choosing a username. It has no identifying, personal information. It’s just a word with random numbers.
It is NOT personal information.
Have a good day, ya’ll 
Blizzard, make this happen so we can put this nonsense behind us.
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account wide ignore allows forum users to link other users’ mains to their alts, which is not something that many people want.
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That’s from two months ago. They still intend to do something, it’s just a matter of time. Will it look like account-wide ignore or Btag posting? We don’t know. But they want to do something.
We’re just letting them know that we would still like it to happen in the meantime so that it doesn’t fall off their radar when it’s time for forum updates.
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This should also be in mind when considering the importance of blue posts.
Unless stated otherwise one blue poster, who states they function as support only doesn’t represent the community or game development design team.
Hence they cannot be used in dependable accuracy for predicating forum updates for the future.
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I truly do not understand them. Like, how is ignoring invading the privacy, which is something they have never explained.
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