New forum function - posting anonymously, as Anonymous

[Hwanwok-ysera (Hwanwok)]

@Nelfas-azshara

@Jaesears-dalaran

I can’t block because they’re anonymous is VERY beneficial.

why exactly you block person? for different opinion? That’s rude.

First of all, you selectively quoted, please read the bolded text and this in full

@Jaesears-dalaran

Yes, being told to off myself repeatedly by someone I can’t block because they’re anonymous is VERY beneficial.

Second of all, you telling someone to unsubscribe from life and that someone wanting to block you isn’t having a different opinion, your just sending a real life threat to them and also harassing them.

I dont block people because they have a different opinion, I only block (and report if needed) those who want to send to me death threats and harass me.

@Nelfas-azshara

We have 24/7 working moderators and forum rules and CoC.

That still doesn’t stop someone who has an ability to post anonymously to bring toxicity.

@Nelfas-azshara

he made false claims

I mean from your OWN words, you said “why exactly you block person? for different opinion? that’s rude.”

Sounds like to me that you are trying to justify a death threat.

Remember, Death threats =/= a different opinion.

@Mungadai-area-52

Why do you feel unsafe?

Because as demonstrated when the OP took Jaesears’ post and selectively quoted it that she/he just wants to feel safe trolling and being hateful.

@Nelfas-azshara

but you see that people asking anonymous posting are kind and nice, being polite

I dont see that with you deep down in all honesty.

@Zensetal-trollbane

the issue is that you can’t really compare other message boards to the wow forums because other message boards don’t require a paid subscription like the wow forums do.

Requirements don’t matter.

@Zensetal-trollbane

anonymous posting would be perfectly fine here.

No, people already do that with throwaway level 10 characters, level 55 classic dks and level 58 evokers such as yourself.

In my experience with those and seeing throwaway characters here, they are often times toxic.

It won’t fix or make the forum any better.

@Ardmccloud-frostmourne

It is hardly a coincidence that the same posters from that thread are venomously against the idea proposed here.

Because to put it this way, its a bad idea, it doesn’t help make the forum better in anyway and it makes this site a breeding ground for toxicity and trolls.

You already have the OP trying to justify unsubscribing from life because that anon had a “different opinion.” then Jaesear.

@Nelfas-azshara

it will not. Because we have monthly subscription.

It doesn’t matter if it costs 15$, people will still come here to troll no matter if its free or not.

@Nelfas-azshara

made up stories

So what Jaesear experienced on a site where you can post as anon and that anon user told her to unsubscribe from life is a made up story? Also trying to bring a potential downside to this suggestion being made here for the WoW forums?

Thank you for showing us that you want to be a terrible human being as if you already haven’t it showed already to begin with.

@Nelfas-azshara

i never said anything like that.

Yes you did.

@Liolang-daggerspine

bye bye…you arent trolling me son.
YOU DONT NEED ANY MORE OF MY ACCOUNT INFO, INCLUDING MY BTAG…PERIOD.
perma blocked

If battle tags are considered “private information”, I want ask you something.

How do you feel that Plunderstorm is using your battle tag name thats if you have played it?

Also Rankin isn’t trolling, we have been telling you since you were on Taienna when the btag thread wasn’t locked that battle tag name portions have always been public information and will be displayed regardless how you feel about it not being out there.

@Bulakzebgor-faerlina

But Maizou used to be an MVP so I am inclined to lean towards believing Maizou’s story

The amount of downplaying from your side is a big yikes for me dawg.

[Petdetective-pagle]

@Rankin-shandris

How would having more accountability would lead to anarchy

Because that’s what happens when the general population is in charge of holding others accountable. It leads to mob rule, bullying, and exclusion.

That’s precisely why Blizzard themselves deal with holding others accountable. Any plans that you have to hold someone “accountable” via their btag would be a violation of the CoC and frankly would be terrifying.

[Rankin-shandris (Rankin)]

@Ardmccloud-frostmourne

Posters cannot be trusted to use that accountability fairly.

Oh noes, some trolls would be completely muted instead of being able to alt hop like they can now. The horror!

@Ardmccloud-frostmourne

It would quickly devolve into factions of players who play the game differently just ignoring one another until posters just leave these forums all together.

What’s to stop that from happening already? It just takes slightly more effort. Your slippery slope fallacy needs to be folded up and put back into storage.

@Ardmccloud-frostmourne

Those who disagree with you aren’t fundamentally a troll or what not for proposing or agreeing to something you don’t.

We don’t think that everybody who disagrees with us is a troll, but people who use that argument in favor of being able to avoid being ignored are very much suspect in their motives.

[Rankin-shandris (Rankin)]

Man, that’s some nice fearmongering. Try again with a real argument.

[Ardmccloud-frostmourne]

@Rankin-shandris

What’s to stop that from happening already?

If Blizzard can track account wide suspensions, they likely have other data that indicates exactly that occurring through the quality of data or feedback they collect off these forums.

They introduce something like account wide ignores into the mix and that data is disrupted.

[Malgorok-zuljin]

It’s literally just someone ignoring you bro

It’s not that serious

[Petdetective-pagle]

@Rankin-shandris

Man, that’s some nice fearmongering

Do you have a reply to the points raised or do you just call anything you dislike “fear mongering”?

@Malgorok-zuljin

It’s literally just someone ignoring you bro

You can do this without having access to someone’s btag.

[Rankin-shandris (Rankin)]

If someone gets banned from the forums, they’d be banned on all of their characters anyway because it’s already be account-wide.

[Ardmccloud-frostmourne]

You don’t represent the majority of the forum either.

So that argument is valid.

[Rankin-shandris (Rankin)]

@Petdetective-pagle

Do you have a reply to the points raised or do you just call anything you dislike “fear mongering”?

I’m not going to give a serious response to someone who thinks there’s a secret cabal of users who want to control the forums.

[Malgorok-zuljin]

@Petdetective-pagle

You can do this without having access to someone’s btag.

I don’t recall asking for btags

This thread is about 0 identifiers about posters, so people will feel even more bold to be increasingly toxic

[Petdetective-pagle]

@Rankin-shandris

I’m not going to give a serious response

Noted, so there is no reason to continue further with you.

@Malgorok-zuljin

I don’t recall asking for btags

The conversation that I was partaking in is about Btags.

[Malgorok-zuljin]

@Petdetective-pagle

The conversation that I was partaking in is about Btags.

You said you, while responding to me though

[Jaesears-dalaran]

@Petdetective-pagle

@Malgorok-zuljin

It’s literally just someone ignoring you bro

You can do this without having access to someone’s btag.

Unless someone hops onto a different character and continues to harass you. You have to ignore each character individually as opposed to just blocking them once. And considering you can make a character, get ignored, delete that character, make a new character and continue to troll and harass while pretending to be a different person…

Hm, I wonder why we need btags.

[Petdetective-pagle]

@Malgorok-zuljin

You said you

Because you replied to me, someone who was having a conversation about Btags.

[Malgorok-zuljin]

Sheesh, so hostile

You anti taggers sure are a contentious bunch

[Spacefloozy-stormrage]

@Uncleruckus-darkspear

Your mother smells of elderberries

Your mother was a hamster girl.

[Petdetective-pagle]

@Jaesears-dalaran

Unless someone hops onto a different character and continues to harass you. You have to ignore each character individually as opposed to just blocking them once.

You can account wide ignore people in the game without having access to their btags. It can work like that on the forums. We don’t need btags for it.

@Malgorok-zuljin

Sheesh, so hostile

Nothing I said was hostile, I’m just clarifying the conversation for you.

[Jaesears-dalaran]

@Petdetective-pagle

You can account wide ignore people in the game without having access to their btags. It can work like that on the forums. We don’t need btags for it.

The whole point is that people can character hop and pretend to be different people. With battletags under their name, they can’t do that because everyone will know it’s the same person rather than two different people.

This thread is proof of that.

[Brakkarion-wyrmrest-accord]

Accountability is a two-way street. BTags isn’t about having players becoming Judge Dredd on the forums. Blizzard will still handle the punishments.

Thing is, the forums don’t have an account-wide ignore like the game does, so if they added account-wide ignore, visible BTags won’t be required. That’s more or less the focus of the entire anonymous vs btag argument, being able to properly ignore people who would be doing wrong, has nothing to do with reporting or applying bans or suspensions.