World of Warcraft maker to end anonymous forum logins

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Gnizmo said:

sad.man.loves.vgc said:

I was gonna update it , thanks.

Hopefully people defended it see sense now XD

Considering no one has really put forth any great points against it I would say that is unlikely.

Apart from what I've already mentioned, I have read enough stories about some chans and other internet sites finding out the identities of certain people online and collectively making their lives a living hell for one reason or another. Quite often these groups are able to find out real identities from information given out by that particular user. But forcing people to divulge first and last name for a purpose as trivial as posting on an internet gaming forum is simply a terrible idea, and could make it easier to harass people in real life.

Here is a recent example that I found pretty disgusting: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/ba5t0/iama_person_who_has_been_badly_harassed_by_4chan/

worth looking at as well is how much information one blogger dug up on a number of Blizzard employees with only a first and last name: http://asnowstormbyanyothername.blogspot.com/