That is a marvelous idea.
Get on a real toon and Iâll answer.
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Not an assumption. Going off your own words that you talk about your friends, without them knowing, in ways that may upset them.
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what makes you think your answer would be of that much value to me?
One of the big issues with the current system is that we CAN"T ignore all the alts because they each show up as a separate account. Switching to Btag means once ignored, none of their 400 characters can bother you.
Huge improvement.
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It would be.
The classic clowns not being able to post in retail would be a huge improvement too.
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A lot and I would say most posters on the forum love the fact they can hide on Alt names and post hostile remarks and post without any chance of being called out for it or real repercussion to their main account in the public eye.
I personally always use the same toon and itâs my main so if they made us use our battlenet tag it wouldnât bother me in the least bit. And yes, I feel it would cut back on a lot of the toxic behavior that goes on, on the forums, because people would have to own up to it.
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Well, now the world knows youâre lying lol jk that was a little too harsh 
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It is definitely more than a few people. Also, it is much harder to avoid someone for harassment when they can literally have 400 alts versus a system where they can have all the alts in the world, but only 1 account.
I donât know maybe I should use my powers of alt liking and create a long discussion thread between all 12 of them when itâs time to post another Dracthyr thread.
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And when they make additional BNet accounts?
Only paid and active subscription can post on the forums, currently.
Do you think that people wouldnât make a new account and some random level 10?
Some might but others wouldnât want to keep dropping money for the game and time over and over to keep trolling since one click and you are back blocked.
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It was broadcast publicly on or around December 4, 2018 via one of the class discords. I donât remember that one as I closed that discord conversation long ago.
Someone freaked out about it came to me via my realm discord because Iâm a frequent beta tester and they thought I had connections to Blizzard and bring the issue to their attention.
I was skeptical of the claim and managed to reproduce it. I did multiple times at 5:52am pacific and again at 9am on a different computer on December 4th, 2018.
I reached out on the battlenet API discord and an MVP there confirmed it was a known and patched bug. I asked when the patch was pushed. They said 17 hours before. I double checked the version number and confirmed I had the patched client but was still able to reproduce the problem on version 1.12.5.10733. You can still find this on that discord server.
I have screenshots of the contemporaneous conversation on the API discord as well as the contemporaneous Google doc with step by step screenshots (with the real names partially censored) I sent via that MVP to the devs. You can add me on discord and Iâll send you the stuff, zandrae#1418 .
Itâs not an isolated incident. It happens sometimes. And these ones are reports that werenât deleted to prevent a mass panic. There are likely more cases reported elsewhere, reported privately, or that have been put under wraps.
But you donât have to believe me if you donât want to.
If they are dedicated enough to pay an extra sub fee, then there isnât much you can do.
What we want is to raise the cost of bypassing an ignore from $0 and 10 min max, to $15/month per new account you want to troll on.
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Ooh data, see yeah this is something that could reasonably happen and makes a case for a single forum account over simply using Btag.
Step 1: Be a gold baron 
Step 2: Make a new BNet
Step 3:
I said in another similar thread that this just makes trolling a privilege of the wealthy 
Hey if it makes Blizzard more money we might get some really good updates. /s
I personally am not opposed to a single form account but I donât trust Blizzard to not goof and cross the battlenet/realid streams again.
Overall I think other solutions are doable that would have the same results without having to stick a visible battle net account or something else under names.