Correct.
And we are blizzard paying customers. If enough of us complain they will allow privacy settings.
Why? Because you canât stalk people?
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Thatâs why I hid mine, to really get on peopleâs nerves itâs kinda funny.
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And Iâm here like, âwhy are people making such a huge ordeal out of something so minor?â
Itâs like hiding a blank piece of paper.
Iâm assuming you mean in relation to verifying if someone has a history of trolling or derailment-type replies to a post
Example being: Your example of Pet-Battling and someone calling out your raid achievements and weighing merit on your opinion for that facet of the game, then I could totally relate with why it should be public.
At the same conjecture, I also agree that if someone is more âmaliciousâ and choose to also hide their profile for any number of reasons, then the report post functionality can easily help with the moderation.
As a whole though, the anonymity of the internet, the small freedoms of hiding history is something not to be taken for granted! ![:slight_smile:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/slight_smile.png?v=6" ":slight_smile:")
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You know people can just copy paste your name into armory right? Or is it just your activity on the forums you want hidden?
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I donât need people to see how many tiny empty hearts Iâve been filling in so there! You canât make me stop liking people!!!
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With the rise of some bigger publicity players (Youtube, Twitch [more specific]) and armory / profile crawling live to discredit posters, I could see there being a resentment to wanting people to find out your past posts.
Itâs a new age of level 1 alt posting.
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Only if itâs a profit maximizing scenario, they are a business afterall.
Sure, if enough players are angry about something they will change course. We saw what happened with them trying to remove flight afterall. Any business decision on their end that winds up losing them revenue and profits, that is something they can change by investing development resources and still wind up revenue netural or positive, is something they will consider doing.
But I very much doubt your pet privacy project is something theyâre super interested in. After giving an inch, itâs probably all you are going to get, they arenât going to give you a mile unless you really can demonstrate a mass movement of players either willing to quit over the issue, or that it would draw more customers for them. And I just donât see you being able to do that with something this inconsequential.
Either way my statement to Aehl is correct. You donât own your username or character name in this game. All of it is Blizzardâs, and we all sign a contract to that effect which we must agree to, else we are unallowed to participate in the game at all.
But, can still do a forum search for said postsâŠ
Mostly this lol, lemme hug people at will without judgment!
For those of us that have had to deal with stalkers, being able to enable privacy settings is important.
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Sames.
Gonna make the âRate my Xmogâ threads a lot more of a hassle when 90% of the people posting are set to hidden, lol. So much work to go the other route, for everyone.
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Some of this is because a certain streamer made three videos armory trolling a certain poster who had over 80k posts on the old forums. I can see why people would want their armories private in this case, personally I donât give a ratâs behind.
Exactly, you get 3000+ people in comments calling out a post to have a mocking brigade, and thus you hit the impasse of live stalking and ridicule.
Welp they canât post in rate my transmog thread then xD. I donât care for the concept, but I donât see the point of it. If someone going to bully them just to stroke their ego like those arena pvp fanatics. Theyâre the ones with the self entitlement problem and not the person whose hiding it.
Some people are just petty.
Exactly. I donât care if anyone sees my armory, and I wish clicking on someoneâs character portrait linked directly to the armory like it used to. I just find it bizzare that someone can see detailed forum stats like posts read, view time, etc., so I hid my public forum profile.
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Yes.
Blizzard should do more to allow us to block all the cyber stalking that goes on in this game.
People will always look for superficial reasons to discount your words when they cannot form a cogent argument against your ideas. It used to be race or gender, but society has (mostly) woken up to the fact that it is ridiculous to dismiss someones ideas on such superficial criteria.