I think it's a great idea. Would you be such an eager ninja looter if you knew someone might send records of your activities to your boss? Would you so careless exhibit your ERP fetish if you knew the screenshots might end up in your spouse's mailbox? Let's face it, anonymity on the internet is more detriment than advantage these days. Let's hear it for enforced social responsibility!
Not cool. Yes there should be consequences to being a douche even on game forums, but moderating a game forum by placing it's community in fear of real world consequences (ie: personal safety) is beyond irresponsible.
As was mentioned earlier: prospective employers Google candidates. Not all, but many do, especially the HR people who are the resume gatekeepers to the Hiring Managers.
Maybe some of you don't have jobs, or jobs that would require an HR department to weed through 500 resumes looking for ANY reason to toss a resume into the circular file.
Quite honestly, I thinking of starting a web server that culls as much personal info from WoW forums, links to the person's posts, and offer the service to HR departments to quickly searchfor a nice low fee. "Gamer-Weeder-Outer.com" sounds good to me. Maybe include forum post counts and ratings for an additional $1/month.
Laugh if you want. You guys have no idea of the ramifications of something like this.
It would be rare to find a company who would fail to consider you for a position because you posted on a gaming forum.
Now this wouldn't exclude them from reading posts made by a person and drawing conclusions based on posted content. However, this just goes back to being accountable for one's own behavior.
Overall I think it is an evolution in the online community. There is some loss of privacy, but it is rather mild to the exposure from any other real life social encounter. All of these horror stories about someone being tracked down across the country and killed seem rather far fetched. It would be more common to somehow offend/entrall someone in person and be assaulted, followed or otherwise harassed.
The HR manager doesn't care that you posted smack on a gaming forum. They don't care what type of forum you posted to (unless it was involving illegal activities). They care that whatever attitude you displayed could potentially get carried over to work. You have officially shitcanned any hopes of getting a job at that company because you merely responded to some griefing douchebag who thoroughly deserved it.
For those calling this "evolution", no. Removing anonymity where once there was isn't evolution, it's a complete breach of trust between the user and the company. It's no different than telling your best friend juicy gossip about someone else at school, then having your friend tell everyone what you said and that you said it, with the exception of the fact that you are not paying money to your friend while expecting silence. it's an evolution in capitalism, and that's it. There is nothing wrong at all with making money, but there's also nothing wrong at all with the world's largest online game eventually shutting down far earlier than planned due to bad decision-making. Hopefully people will vote with their wallets; RealID is a horribly breach of privacy that should not be repeated.
This realID idea is just more proof of how out of touch Blizzard is. What moron thought this would be a good idea in a game that has a lot of problems with accounts getting hacked is beyond absurd.
I'm sure blizz will do it anyways regardless what their players want. When they announced horde would get paladins there were numerous anti-pally posts in official and 3rd party forums. Polls showed that majority of horde players did NOT want paladins added to their side. That's just one example of how blizz does what it wants, how it wants, and the players can go get bent.
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I think it's a great idea. Would you be such an eager ninja looter if you knew someone might send records of your activities to your boss? Would you so careless exhibit your ERP fetish if you knew the screenshots might end up in your spouse's mailbox? Let's face it, anonymity on the internet is more detriment than advantage these days. Let's hear it for enforced social responsibility!
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Not cool. Yes there should be consequences to being a douche even on game forums, but moderating a game forum by placing it's community in fear of real world consequences (ie: personal safety) is beyond irresponsible.
I have quit Wow.
The HR manager doesn't care that you posted smack on a gaming forum. They don't care what type of forum you posted to (unless it was involving illegal activities). They care that whatever attitude you displayed could potentially get carried over to work. You have officially shitcanned any hopes of getting a job at that company because you merely responded to some griefing douchebag who thoroughly deserved it.
For those calling this "evolution", no. Removing anonymity where once there was isn't evolution, it's a complete breach of trust between the user and the company. It's no different than telling your best friend juicy gossip about someone else at school, then having your friend tell everyone what you said and that you said it, with the exception of the fact that you are not paying money to your friend while expecting silence. it's an evolution in capitalism, and that's it. There is nothing wrong at all with making money, but there's also nothing wrong at all with the world's largest online game eventually shutting down far earlier than planned due to bad decision-making. Hopefully people will vote with their wallets; RealID is a horribly breach of privacy that should not be repeated.
There's a sucker born every minute. - P.T. Barnum
This realID idea is just more proof of how out of touch Blizzard is. What moron thought this would be a good idea in a game that has a lot of problems with accounts getting hacked is beyond absurd.
I'm sure blizz will do it anyways regardless what their players want. When they announced horde would get paladins there were numerous anti-pally posts in official and 3rd party forums. Polls showed that majority of horde players did NOT want paladins added to their side. That's just one example of how blizz does what it wants, how it wants, and the players can go get bent.