End-game play at the top end is completely different these days than it was pre-Legion.
In the context of a forum, the way you talk about certain subjects will make it self evident if you are intelligent and/or experienced.
If you are a moron it shows.
Ironically having my achievements displayed would have helped me out earlier because someone was accusing me of not helping new players enough and I didn’t know how to prove that I’m a noob.
Achievements are displayed, though. Just takes a couple clicks to get to them, that’s all.
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thats debatable. while i did not hardcore raid since then i still have a few old friends that i did raid with back then that do. they are still sitting around the top 300-500 guild mark that we were back then.
mechanics now are a little more complex but the the addons and weak auras that exist now that didnt back then make up for the increased difficulty.
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It’s more than just mechanics, though. The entire game is different. Crafting and M+ changed raiding wildly. More access to early gear meant raids were tuned to be harder, which meant raiding now requires more homework than it did in WoD.
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that i do agree with. the fact that raids are tuned around people being max ilvl due to the easy and quick acquisition of m+ mythic gear.
but i find that to be unhealthy and i know blizzard is really stuck in knowing what to do other than just leaving things as is.
before you get heroic dungeon gear, and raid. raids would get easier as each boss would get downed and players attained better and better gear. now the tuning is based on players being max to near max ilvl due to m+.
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In return the energy I get.
Don’t come at me side ways and you won’t get dunked on.
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I am part of the vertically challenged club at a whopping 5’8”. It’s why I married a girl that’s 5’1”
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you can already look at everyone’s feats of strengths and immediately laugh at the guy with a blank dungeon section yapping about m+. Only thing I would do is ban classic characters on retail forums 
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what
I’m glad you and I see eye to eye here. 
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Pretty sure difficulty is accounted for after taking advantage of every tool possible. The common ones that is.
6 foot 20 made of radiation
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Nah this is not only my 2nd account I recently started but i I have nothing to prove to people here.
My greatest achievement cannot be quantified by a mere number on a screen, I’m not gonna tell you what it is, use your imagination, it’s much more enjoyable.
No.
You can make an argument without everyone having an automatic “appeal to authority”-fallacy directly under their names. What they should do is just make it your Battle.net tag and do stuff like account-wide progression with specific characters that a person selects to have on their profile, and those characters can be your forum avatars in turn.
Ain’t gonna happen because that’d require a complete overhaul of both the account system and the forum system. But it’d be neat, and it’d be what most folks want (the ones who don’t get blocked and then hop onto alts).
The fallacy is called “appealing to authority” … because an expert is something very different from an authority. A lot of experts are authorities within their own specific fields of expertise … but a lot of people try to use experts outside of those fields and then pretend that said person’s PhD has some meaning.
So no, appealing to experts isn’t a fallacy … appealing to an authority when that’s not an authority on the subject is a fallacy however. There’s a huge difference and it needs to be mentioned, because otherwise going with what you said…
That’s just anti-intellectualism … which is a hell’a’lot worse than an appeal to authority fallacy.
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There was a pretty big doxxing event a while back on MG. Never underestimate high school lunchroom drama occupying the minds of mid-thirties social outcasts.
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Petty people who look for something to invalidate other posters opinions i guess 
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There was a dox event on Runetotem as well that involved the FBI before there was even a concept called, “Doxxing” and Blizzard did NOTHING to the player who messed with someones children at school while their parent was at work.
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But API disabling measures do nothing for that.
So what if someone knows everything about your wow account?
(Which is the standard for all other Blizzard forums.)