Removed ability to hide Account Achievements?

[Salorael-wyrmrest-accord]

And will keep bumping until the functionality is restored. I have friends who are being actively harassed right now. Blizzard uses AI to respond to any support tickets. Ignoring does nothing really.

[Jeysca-wyrmrest-accord]

@Salorael-wyrmrest-accord

And will keep bumping until the functionality is restore

Bumping here will not help, it is not currently a bug.

Post in the Achievements or General forum so that devs can actually see it and consider a change. You can also make suggestions in game those go directly to them.

I would like to see this reversed as well, but bumping this topic will not have the potential to change anything.

@Salorael-wyrmrest-accord

I have friends who are being actively harassed right now. Blizzard uses AI to respond to any support tickets. Ignoring does nothing really.

Please have your friends do an ongoing harassment report. The biggest key here is that they need to not engage the other person at all. Even saying something like “leave me alone” turns it from harassment to engagement on their part. Put the person on ignore and if they circumvent that by using another character, repeat the process and file a ticket. There is a specific ticket path linked below for ongoing harassment. Each time they circumvent the ignore to contact the user, report. It will take a little while, and will take longer if the user engages at all, but eventually their actions will catch up to them.

Reporting Ongoing Harassment in World of Warcraft

Also it isn’t AI responding but templates. GMs will never say if they actioned another account or not.

[Pawgwalker-dalaran]

@Aeøx-moon-guard

What a silly hill to die on. “Oh no someone looked at my achievements and is judging me.”

It has more to do with people on the forums with a bunch of sock puppet accounts not wanting to be found out, but I agree with you. Oh and sweaty arena players.

@Etamalgren-drenden

Stalkers and/or psychopaths can use the achievement system to keep targeting the same victim over and over again, even across alts and accounts on the same battle.net account because of account-wide achievements. Being able to only show character achievements helped to mitigate most (but not all) of the ability to do that.

You know what helps more? Reporting them and blocking them.

@Salorael-wyrmrest-accord

And will keep bumping until the functionality is restored.

It was a deliberate change and likely won’t be undone. Plus, even if they did reverse it, all the data harvesting sites will have already cross-referenced all your characters that you’ve logged into anyways(for now, I think it will honor your previous setting, but as soon as you log into the character, it will remove the internal flag and publicly expose it). And I’m not talking about the sites that pull from the API where you have to agree to sharing, like RaiderIO.

[Salorael-wyrmrest-accord]

Where does it say that this change is deliberate? It seems completely the opposite and its unsafe to remove such protections against weirdos. They already don’t moderate their game at all.

[Jeysca-wyrmrest-accord]

Its an undocumented change. Details here:

Patch 11.1.0 (undocumented changes)

[Pawgwalker-dalaran]

@Salorael-wyrmrest-accord

Where does it say that this change is deliberate?

Without drilling into the specifics: Judging by the fact that they changed not one, but two separate functions, and the fact that they have a system to auto expose your character as soon as you log into it, it’s 99.99999% deliberate. It’s just undocumented like Jeysca said.

@Salorael-wyrmrest-accord

and its unsafe to remove such protections against weirdos. They already don’t moderate their game at all.

You were never really hidden anyways. Weirdos could always cross reference battle pets(I’ve had it happen in the days of yore). Also, reporting for harassment works; so long as you’re being reasonable about it.

[Arukenn-proudmoore]

@Aeøx-moon-guard

There’s actual bugs out there that need fixed, and some of you are paranoid about others seeing your achievements.

It might not be a problem for you personally, but it is a problem. There are some really demented people out there.

@Jeysca-wyrmrest-accord

Please have your friends do an ongoing harassment report

If they don’t message you, Blizzard will not do anything no matter how obscene or intrusive. I have tried. They don’t have any policies against stalking and non-verbal harassment that doesn’t fall under griefing. Repeated spamming toys, standing on your character, audio and visual distractions are all acceptable in the open world.