In order to work like that on the forums it would need to have an account-wide identifier which, currently, it does not.
Whether or not they choose to display that identifier is of no consequence to me. If I block a character, that block should extend to their entire account.
Btags is just an easy way to allow that to happen. I suppose in a theoretical bubble they can give us an account wide forum identifier that is distinct from our btags but that just sounds a little redundant to me.
Vrakthis has stated that this is not very common, though.
This doesnât matter if you have account wide ignore on the forums. You will have all of their characters ignored.
How does it work in-game then? We go by character names but if you place someoneâs character on ignore, it ignores every character on their account.
Why would that not work on the forums?
You got me. The forums are just built this way.
Well to be fair, do you even know that it would not work on the forums like this?
Why doesnât that happen on any of the other forums that use Btags? Or any other gaming forum in general? This is seriously the only forum Iâve ever used on the internet where one person can post as 100+ different people with the same email address. Not one single other forum operates like this.
Thatâs assuming people ignore them. And ignoring them doesnât hold them accountable for their behavior, it just pretends the problem doesnât exist.
Personally, I have ignored exactly 1 person who was lying about me. Iâm not a fan of ignoring people just because I donât like their views/opinions.
For those who donât ignore people, the problem still exists. People shouldnât be ALLOWED to character hop and pretend to be different people just to push their own narrative or harass people. With the current system AND with anonymous posting, this will continue.
With battletags, it wonât.
Thatâs the thing, players have been asking for a means to have account-wide ignores apply to the forums. If we had that, problem would be solved.
Anonymous posting is just the contrarian extreme like handing out guns and ski masks for âcomfort and safety.â
Different game.
Players are divided across multiple avenues of play, hence they have very different, very aged set ways of interacting with this game.
This concept doesnât actually work with any real success now and I donât see how it would be greatly more successful with btags?
Well, no⌠The trolls are trolls. But you donât get to decide when someone chooses to mark you as ignored, and you shouldnât be able to simply side step that by switching to an alt.
Doing so only hampers that specific characters ability to show up easily to you. They need only bypass that with another alt. Literally an infinite number of times if they so choose.
If it was a btag based system, whether it showed it or not, you would only need ignore the poster the one time per bnet account greatly reducing the issue.
Now Blizzard doesnât have to show the btag for this system to work they need only have the forums operate by the Account/Btag rather than the individual characters.
Btags is how Blizzard has us hold others accountable in all of their other forums.
Works in them should work in here
Iâve put 3 people in this thread on ignore today alone. I have never put anyone on ignore on the forums in the 17 years Iâve played this game. I think I only have 1 ignore in game.
Youâll have to show us your credentials with Blizzard before I believe any of that.
I can post on 50 alts and for a pittance of gold I could post on 50 more. If I used that power for evil, I could probably fill someoneâs ignore list and then continue to cause them grief.
To say people donât do that is grossly underestimating the pettiness of human beings.
Thankfully, B-tags were designed to be public and already are! We already have access to each others b-tags in-game 
It is literally why Blizzard designed the b-tag system!
And it does work like that in all the other Blizz forums whichâŚwait for itâŚuse b-tags!
We want ignores by account not by individual characters like it is now .
When we ignore it is not the character we want ignored it is the person behind the character and any alts they may have .
We donât want the person/s we ignore to be able to change toons in order to get around being ignored .
You may have a limited right under Blizzâs forum coc to say what you want but you donât have the right to be heard by everyone .
d3 has a lot of variety, too. Hardcore, Hardcore solo, dueling players, GR pushers, farmers, seasonal, non-seasonal, seasonal hardcore, etc.
Wow demographic is not unique in that regard.
D3 is much younger in comparison to WoW Retails age.
Ard you already know Blizz uses Btags for their other forums .
Also you have said in the other thread that you are against account wide ignores/ btags becasue you canât be against them .
I seriously wish you were like in the other thread where anything you say doesnât even show up as ignorred content
One thing to consider: compared to WoW classic forums, D3 is older
Another, at what age does a forum population reach âsocial maturityâ? The forum may be older, but are the players? Do you have access to this information to infer your position?
Itâs fun to debate this stuff, but thereâs no empirical evidence that you have access to beyond anecdotes