| vlad321 said: Again though you seem to really not think about this. In real life I KNOW who I tell my name to. Unless I go on a public stage for a speech, I know the people who will get my name. Meanwhile on a forum, especially as big as Blizzard's I haven't the slightest clue who receives my name and who doesn't. Your argument that it is more dangerous to give out your real name in real life has absolutely no bearing on this at all. It is a terrible argument. As I said, no point of writing my arguments when someone has already written everything that has to be said, everything in those links are perfectly valid. In fact your defense against all of the arguments is "no it's not a big deal" and you do not back up that stetement at all. Overall you have made absolutely zero good points, and zero good counter arguments. Yet you somehow think you are right, which is funny in a very pathetic way. |
No facebook, phonebook entry, or personal friends who would give out your name. Gotcha. I say its not a big deal because it isn't. Tell me what could go wrong and I will change my tune. My argument is noting will go signficantly wrong for 99.9% of the populace, and thinking otherwise is paranoid. I can't prove there is no potential harm though as a blanket statement. You cannot prove lack of existence. Explaining what the problems are, and why they should be avoided is possible though. You are doing your best to not offer up any evidence while demanding I prove something that is impossible to prove.
@Foamer
Thank you for making coherent points. I would say any employer who has enough time to google you, and then read your random Blizzard forum posts have way, way too much time on their hands. Still it is a valid point. It is not one unique to Blizzard, and a direction the internet as a whole is ultimately driving towards with the rise of social networking sites sadly. I don't think it would ever be an issue, but I will concede that it can cause a serious problem in certain circumstances.
I disagree that there is no one pretending there are serious problems. Vlad and his host of links keep parroting people getting stalked, raped, and killed by people thousands of miles away simply because they somehow got the name of the person. No only is that a serious threat, but a god damned ridiculous scenario. The potential for a few assholes to send you mean emails is ultimately not that big a problem, and if it ever starts to progress past that then you have legal means of defense. If they have your name, then you have theirs which means they would have to curtail their behavior more to the level accepted by society in those scenarios.
I am not saying it is something that should be implemented though. I personally don't care if it is there or not. I just can't stand people spouting paranoid non-sense as if it were real. Blizzard ultimately backed down because 90% of their forum is people who want to troll others anonymously, which is also why I liked the idea. Getting rid of all the b.net kiddies could only help their official forums, but I suppose killing them to make it better is seen as a bad trade off from the business end.
