As long as these sites aren’t publishing my real name, I can’t bring myself to care if they list my alts.
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Check-pvp does, but glad.gg which does the same thing (and more, even giving achievement dates for rating breakpoints and a total count of each type of title and what season it was earned) does not allow you to hide, even if you connect with battle.net. Dataforazeroth is also useful for finding people because you can’t hide your pet count and if your main has been tracked by the site, clicking the alts pet score will take you to the main 99% of the time.
This would be so useful. Especially if it worked on classic alts. Big problem with it however is right now a lot of trolls are making blank, unconnected battle.net accounts just to troll on. This ensures there is no way to link them back to their main. Dunno how to solve that one.
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i didn’t know of this one! I’ll have to check it out
Yeah 
i guess the one comfort is knowing they’re having to give double the sub cost to blizz for it
Elae, is that you?
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I’m not sure what bearing people discussing on a place outside of the guild has on raiding but I don’t think any logical people would do that, especially having “Jerks” in their guild name.
I could care less what anyone in my guild says outside of the game as long as it doesn’t create issues inside the guild. People in my work place speak eloquent and professionally. If they swear in their own homes, that’s their business, not mine.
If you like seeing people do this, go into the CS forum. All those people who heart every comment the blues make do this often. You don’t need to be a stalker to find this out.
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Because it shows what kind of person they are. Morale is a thing, and I didn’t want to have to deal with someone inclined to go rage-y.
Also, it should have been fairly obvious I was not speaking for this guild, but I guess if you wanted to score a few points, so be it.
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Again, what they do outside of your guild has no bearing if they compose themselves in your guild.
Joe Blow works in an office but dresses in goth and listens to death metal in his apartment. Not the workplace’s business. I moderate in a respectable subreddit but also participate in some controversial ones. Someone tried reporting me to my moderated reddit saying “omg, this guy thinks this, why would you want that person moderating here?” The admin said “What does that have to do with our reddit? They act just fine here”
But that’s your business to do things that way. I wouldn’t want to associate with anyone who stalks their teammates anyway.
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Can i ask why people are honestly so quick to blame the tool when it’s not even it’s intended purpose and instead blame the people who go about misusing it? Why is checking stuff now suddenly bad because some malicious people are taking advantage of it? I mean this isn’t even going into that people use piracy as an excuse so people won’t see the things they say. (A move that i don’t think is geniune or speaks highly of the confidence of your points given).
If anything, wouldn’t hiding just empowers more harassment because you’re letting them bother you, and since it’s online, it can be easily dealt with? (without censorship of coarse) 
…Of coarse, we got to have that obligatory “stalker” meme. I would laugh if this wasn’t being used as a legitimate argument on why we can’t have things like that.
These sorts of things have a purpose and that it cuts though the crap and gives you straight up the info I.E, what’s their characters and such. Plus not to mention this isn’t even our characters, at least not in a legal term, so if they want to make them public, then i don’t see any downside to that, because last time i check, there is no street address, ip address and other actual personal stuff we wish to keep private attached to the characters made public.
More information (ingame that is) isn’t bad, though i’ve noticed a weird trend with people being against that and wanting that sort of info (much akin like DPS and RIO stats and etc), wanting to be clouded… 
There is no way to know they will react differently in a guild setting. It was not a risk I was going to take. We all have our own personal criteria, and that was (one of) mine.
And I wouldn’t want to associate with someone who used a word with an actual meaning to describe checking someone’s video game forum history, so I suppose we are done here.
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I guess so though personally haven’t really felt much of an issue people finding out what my alts are.
Privacy. Or at least that’s always the go-to excuse.
I was unaware that knowing someones alts gave away their home address.
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Yeah i don’t get it either tbh. I just think the whole “hide alts” or hide what you said sort of thing is kind of silly. Once it’s on the internet, it’s effectively there forever.
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I hear you there. As a guild officer, it let me catch two people who were jumping from guild to guild, taking as much as they could from a guild’s bank and leaving. Was able to protect my guild before much of any harm was done.
On the same token, I can see why it could be a problem, but my answer to that has always been: So let’s put the screws to the people who are making it a problem instead of removing functionality other people are using for completely legitimate reasons. If there are stalkers using things like that to harass, then we should be coming down on the STALKERS’ heads hard and ending the problem that way. Especially considering people like that will always find a way around whatever barriers are put up until you actually make a move to stop them by stopping specifically THEM.
Yeah exactly. We possibly missed out on some great raiders, but the risk wasn’t something I was comfortable with.
I agree though if someone is using someone’s history to harass them on other characters (or any character), then that would be bad… I just don’t feel what you/I were doing fell into this category. I didn’t use the info beyond opting to reply (or not reply) to someone’s post looking for a guild. 
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I talk to myself frequently! It’s no sin!
Well, its a more sign of my mental deterioration - my community has been in lockdown for weeks and weeks now and Im starting to have deep conversations with the cat.
But right, you don’t mean that sort of talking to myself thing.
Teddy, my little black Persian, has limited conversation, its mostly “give me more food now, you cruel person” and “if you pull that knot again with the comb Im biting your face off!”. But he does purr sometimes, which is nice.
Yes there is. Find out. You can gkick people if they don’t act to your standards. And that includes people who pass the stalker test. But as stated, if that’s how you do things, you do you.
Forums should use your Bnet name anyway, not character. What’s the point of posting to forums from individual characters?
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I don’t invite people to rbgs with gross character names. Idc if they’re hero xp 
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Right? That’s what I was getting at. We all have our personal lines we won’t cross. We are under no obligation to invite anyone.
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