Can we have more privacy in forums to feel more safe?

[Lovefool-alterac-mountains (Lovefool)]

No, I disagree with you.

Also, I give a for the spam.

Mods, please give the thread the low orbit ion cannon. It’s the only way to be sure.

[Zapco-sargeras]

@Madelke-mannoroth

i support this suggestion and i am posting in it to have a civil discussion regarding it, so yes, it is partially my thread.

For the sake of privacy and clarity, it’s Blizzard’s thread. Thank you for playing!

[Akariliselle-cenarion-circle]

@Madelke-mannoroth

@Akariliselle-cenarion-circle

You’re ignoring the other examples of anonymity and toxicity.

did you name any video game forums that require a monthly subscription in any of those examples?

In case you’re unaware, this is a much larger issue that affects more than just forums.

[Jalanili-moon-guard]

@Nelfas-azshara

and you do not get to decide if they violated or breached CoC. You just fake flagged, becasue you THINK that they violated something, but it does not mean they actually did.

There’s no such thing as a “fake” flag, hon, as long as I’m only flagging with one character. There’s just a request for a moderator to look at a post, and that’s straight from the Blues.

“I think this post violated the rules of the forums, could you take a look?” is all that a flag indicates.

[Brakkarion-wyrmrest-accord]

Why does this make me imagine that Blizzard now has a cannon somewhere in space that just has Ion’s face on it shooting mouth lasers?

[Nelfas-azshara]

@Annastasi-proudmoore

trolls no longer able to hide behind anonymity and trash up the forum with their crap? bring. it. on.

but history has shown that for instance 3 of my topics were locked because those who are for battle tags and against more privacy kept trashing,deailing, posting nonsense gifs, talking offtopic, which led into topics being locked.

[Caelin-boulderfist (Caelin)]

What was “hostile” about their response? They informed the OP that reposted deleted topics is a “no, no” and then gave their opinion that their suggestion was pretty bad. What are they not allowed to state their opinions now because they have green text?!

[Madelke-mannoroth]

@Akariliselle-cenarion-circle

this is a much larger issue that affects more than just forums.

but i am not interested in discussing what happens outside of video game forums; this is a suggestion to improve the wow forums, not society as a whole. thus, i need not concern myself with the circumstances outside the scope of the WoW forums.

[Annastasi-proudmoore]

@Nelfas-azshara

but history has shown that for instance 3 of my topics were locked because those who are for battle tags and against more privacy kept trashing,deailing, posting nonsense gifs, talking offtopic, which led into topics being locked.

you don’t get to play innocent bystander with me. you reap what you sow.

battle tags on the forums to curtail sockpuppeting and trolling please, blizzard!

[Varidra-shadow-council]

@Madelke-mannoroth

thanks for your opinion but this thread is not to convince you, this thread is for the benefit of blizzard.

Nope, you are wrong here.

@Nelfas-azshara

Having the ability to fully hide one’s armory from repeat stalkers would enhance user privacy and security. Armory information reveals a player’s gear, achievements, playstyle etc. While some players appreciate the transparency, others may prefer to keep certain details PRIVATE Implementing an option to hide the armory from the public would empower players to control their own information.

Thoughts?

Thank You.

The initial post even invited conversation and discussion. Our thoughts were requested. We are giving them.

[Madelke-mannoroth]

@Jalanili-moon-guard

“I think this post violated the rules of the forums, could you take a look?”

but there is a moderator message in this OP that expressly states that this thread was re-opened (and thus is not against any CoC).

[Cayna-hyjal]

I can’t believe some people think there’s even a remote chance Blizzard will EVER allow anonymous posting. If they do anything it will be something like BTags.

[Brakkarion-wyrmrest-accord]

You do know that tests are usually done before they are applied, yes?

Let’s use an analogy.
The WoW forums is a box of rats.
Other forums are different boxes of rats.
Other forums introduce neurotoxin and the rats die.
You can look at the other boxes and think, “Maybe I shouldn’t introduce the neurotoxin because of the effect it had on the rats in other boxes.”
Or, you can say “Let’s introduce the same neurotoxin to the WoW box of rats, surely it won’t have the same effect because they are in a different box.”

You can probably see how silly that seems.

[Nelfas-azshara]

@Annastasi-proudmoore

battle tags on the forums to curtail sockpuppeting and trolling please, blizzard!

there is other active topic for that, please go there. here we trying to talk about more privacy.

[Akariliselle-cenarion-circle]

@Madelke-mannoroth

@Akariliselle-cenarion-circle

this is a much larger issue that affects more than just forums.

but i am not interested in discussing what happens outside of video game forums; this is a suggestion to improve the wow forums, not society as a whole. thus, i need to concern myself with the circumstances outside the scope of the WoW forums.

Ah, so it’s better to ignore examples of what happens with anonymity and toxicity just because it’s not a 100% perfect match to the WoW forums. That sounds like odd logic considering how many troll posts there already are on the forums, but you do you.

But there are other forums that require paid game subscriptions, although you did somewhat claim otherwise. From what I know, none of them allow anonymous posting, but I could be wrong about that.

[Annastasi-proudmoore]

@Nelfas-azshara

here we trying to talk about more privacy.

Sorry that’s not how a discussion forum works. This isn’t an echo chamber.

I vehemently disagree with your stance, and I’m just as able to make my stance known here as you are.

[Madelke-mannoroth]

@Akariliselle-cenarion-circle

so it’s better to ignore examples of what happens with anonymity and toxicity just because it’s not a 100% perfect match to the WoW forums.

sorry that you want to bring in irrelevant examples to this topic but i am politely informing you that those examples do not have any bearing on the topic of anonymous posting for the WoW forums.

thank you, though.

[Nayaga-lightbringer (Nayaga)]

@Cayna-hyjal

Completely irrelevant

Oh yea! I wear black socks and that proves we need anon posting. Duh!

[Nelfas-azshara]

@Cayna-hyjal

I can’t believe some people think there’s even a remote chance Blizzard will EVER allow anonymous posting.

well blizzard did anonymous streamer mode in oveerwatch2. We can expect that can be expanded in other games and forums too.

[Madelke-mannoroth]

@Akariliselle-cenarion-circle

From what I know, none of them allow anonymous posting, but I could be wrong about that.

well if no other paid video game forums allow anonymous posting, then we have no examples to show that anonymous posting on the wow forums would result in a negative effect.