You have social media accounts everywhere. Some of us are keen enough on keeping ourselves out of that kind of limelight.
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I agree but somewhat, because itâs a double-edged sword.
I agree Internet anonymity has taken the bridle that is governing oneself accordingly off and maybe Real ID would have kept the trolls in check.
Having said this, Real ID could itself also be misused for online bullying and targeted harassment. Iâm against that as much as I am against misbehaving undercover.
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Some WoW players are returning, after having not played for 20+ years.
People who donât cause issues should not have their safety compromised for those that do. Thatâs braindead.
Have people only able to post on mains or up the moderator count are much safer options.
Most of the trolling is benign anyway. I know this is Sunday, but come on.
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No. No I do not.
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People also just reported, ignored or removed people from guilds in those days. Just like you can do now. There always was bad behavior. This idea that there wasnât then is based on romanticizing that era.
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After real ID went into effect, people posted the real addresses of devs, blues and their families. It did nothing to curb bad behavior. It just compromised peopleâs safety.
Some people are awful, thatâs just reality. There are better mod options.
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Donât agree.
While I donât personally troll people, I donât want to be harassed in my irl mediums because I disagreed with a person here. This game is my escape from the real world.
In light of the fact that the OP is wearing 1-110 looms and all of his cheevs date to April of this year(including classic, BC, cata and MOP), I find it interesting that the OP made claims about this being his main, and he has not played since MOP, etc.
Additionally, he could not have been playing WOW over a 20 year period when the game is 15 years old, my dear Watson.
Takes off Deerstalker
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The game used to be whispering random people on servers to find groups, nobody misses that. Also, if you use the in-game features, a lot of it is tied to your Battle.net account, your communities all show your battlenet account, itâs the same as RealID without the threat to peopleâs physical being. However, since it seems very few people use these features, and still use an out of game chat, it doesnât matter at all. So, unless you physically wanted everybodyâs character names as âFirst Name Last Nameâ, in which case youâd only be allowed to have one character, which Iâm sure nobody wants, even using RealID is moot.
Not that I have much use for it, but I think it would be nice if /ignore worked on an account wide basis. If someone warrants an /ignore, in what reality would you change your mind just because theyâre on another character? Once or twice in all the time Iâve been playing I had someone I /ignored contact me on another character. It wasnât, like, scarring or anything, it just shouldnât happen.
Other than that I value my anonymity. Right now Iâm in two different guilds on two different characters, I wouldnât want any drama, not that Iâd expect it as everyone is really friendly in both and Iâm not what youâd call a high value member of the raid team or anything.
I do like knowing that what I do on one character can be completely independent of what I do on another. But /ignore should be account wide, it kind of doesnât make sense that it isnât.
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No. To everything.
My privacy is too important to me to give it up for a video game. I donât even like that people are able to look up my characters. That is my information and should be shared at my discretion.
And, in-game, each of my characters is an individual and should be treated as such, not as numerous avatars of myself.
You want to give up your privacy, go ahead, but stay out of my lane.
I HAD to do that; they would not accept my real name. (And, to add insult to injury, their privacy filters suck. I turned off every avenue for someone to find and contact me on there and still my aunt managed to.)
(Note: only got account to shop a FB only vendor. Not a Facebook person. Or even a social media person.)
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Like I said earlier, FB knows who you are, within 99% certainty, regardless of what fake information you put into it. Youâre not going to outsmart cross referencing algorithms unless you do everything in a sandbox with a VPN and never touch FB with a phone, and even then, if they manage to get a single whiff of your cookies, they can figure out who you are.
There really isnât any such thing as privacy in 2020 and itâs only going to get worse. No amount of pouting about it is going to slow it down.
Ummm⌠they donât. They would not allow me to use my real, legal name because they thought ti was fraudulent. if they knew that was my real legal name they would have allowed me to use it.
Instead they allowed me to use my DEAD sisters name (and old email account) so clearly they donât know her either or they would know she was dead.
My aunt saw it and wanted to know who was using my dead sister name. The problem was she shouldnât have been able to see the name to begin with as I had turned on every single filter so I wasnât bothered.
I agree. Google is a monster but the masses are its willing slaves.
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Social media as is most common place is probably one of the biggest cancers on society. Let me stay anonymous.
Keep thinking that. Let me elaborate: Almost ALL major websites now flash the cookie warning and a good chunk wonât even let you use them now if you donât have them enabled. The second you log into a site, they track your IP, at the very least. If you log into something like a bank website, they know your name, IP and time you logged into the site. They then sell information like that to other agencies and companies like FB and google buy it up. Based on a slew of information like this, this can almost certainly determine who you are. If FB sees you logged into some site that has one name and then they see 15 seconds later, you log into a FB account with another name, they can pretty much guarantee that the two separate names are one in the same.
What do you have to hide?
What do you have to hide and what are you hiding from?
no, and in fact, I think anyone who legitimately wants to expose personally identifiable information to random strangers on the internet is an idiot.
but this is sunday, so I assume youâre trolling.
confirmed. trolling.
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Wrong. People are bad no matter what and âsocially misbehaveâ sounds like another liberal PC buzz word to identify those that arent WOKE>
They are accountable just not to you and thats what makes you mad. Blizz has a report function and it works.
WHat wouldnt have happened? Someone not toeing the politically correct line?
No it wouldnt. What it would do is create a crap ton of harassment from the looney PC crowd and the bullies.
No it wouldnt. I dont accept it at all. I as well as many others like our privacy.
No I dont. I dont do facebook tweeter or any of that look at me crap. Its just another tool for people to be controlled by those that shouldnt have power
It failed because it was a bad idea. If you want to shame anyone not being PC thats your choice but its wrong.
Those that give up freedom for security deserve neither. Privacy is important to normal people.
I want to hide myself from the monsters that are you and everyone else on the internet.
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THIS IS FACT!!!
Guess these people aint seen the movie the circle.