Comments on: From the Bad Moves Dept.

By: DVI to Component Cable

DVI to Component Cable — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 21:52:19 +0000

Great item

By: Starcraft II CD Generator

Starcraft II CD Generator — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 08:16:46 +0000

Very nice article, I hope you’ll add more content a lot more frequently :P

By: RealID linkspam. | Azeroth. Me.

RealID linkspam. | Azeroth. Me. — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 02:34:35 +0000

[...] From the Bad Moves Dept. In related news: Facebook stalking and trolling mysteriously expected to go up in August. [...]

By: Katherine

Katherine — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 22:15:25 +0000

Yep, no-one has ever harassed or stalked anyone (or worse) in real life, because they had to use their real name to do it…

By: Julian

Julian — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 22:38:23 +0000

Oh, and this is golden too.

http://seewhatyoudidthere.com/2010/07/07/realid-changes-the-very-real-ease-of-stalking-in-the-internet-age/

By: Julian

Julian — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 22:29:38 +0000

Ongoing and spilling outside:

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/gamehunters/post/2010/07/wow-studio-blizzard-to-require-real-names-on-forums/1

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/10543100.stm

Also been reading comments about the cancellation pages being overwhelmed earlier today, and a 90-minute queue to cancel over the phone, but I haven’t been able to verify it.

By: warcabbit

warcabbit — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 17:32:52 +0000

http://www.thenoobcomic.com/index.php?pos=378

This comic is about a month old. It may be a freaky concidence… or not.

By: Garrett Galvan

Garrett Galvan — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 17:21:45 +0000

Incidentally, I get a kick out of this quote from the hastily-made protest site http://realidiots.net/:

“Pseudonyms are as synonymous with the Internet as forum trolls and rick rolls.”

Let’s see, the latter examples are annoying and diminish the value of the Internet. Is that what pseudonyms have in common with them?

By: Julian

Julian — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 16:34:46 +0000

I’m going to assume this was in the works for quite a while, and there were a lot of voices inside Blizzard that told management this was a Terrible Move(tm), but they were summarily ignored anyway.

I for one would love to hear confirmation of this from any Blizzard peeps. Shoot me an e-mail, I won’t post anything up here. Just personal curiosity.

By: Julian

Julian — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 16:25:57 +0000

I don’t doubt that trolling and general noise will decrease (by how much, I have no idea). The problem is this being one of the worst ways to try and achieve that.

For pure purposes of in-forum accountability, a screen name or a nick is exactly the same as a real name; objectionable posts under a screen name can be monitored and/or removed, screen names/accounts can be banned. There is no functionality gain in moving from nicks to real names. There’s nothing you can do as a forum admin or moderator to a real name that you couldn’t do to a screen name.

This is not ‘a tool’ to curb asshattery. They’ve always had all the tools they needed from day one, had they not been lax in their usage, not been understaffed, however you wanna call it. This is not necessary.

This is Blizzard essentially saying “We can’t be arsed to hire the amount of community moderators needed for a community this big. We can afford it, we just can’t be arsed. There’s a difference. So, since for 5+ years we basically let you roam mostly unchecked and this behavior is ingrained, we’re just going to require you to toss your privacy away and trust that social pressure does its job in keeping you in check. Oh, and we’re also adding that Facebook integration that nobody really asked for. Monetize, bitch.”