Comments on: Stranger Danger http://www.saate.net/general/zevia/stranger-danger/ Tue, 20 Dec 2011 05:05:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Saate http://www.saate.net/general/zevia/stranger-danger/comment-page-1/#comment-6586 Saate Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:55:41 +0000 http://www.saate.net/?p=2905#comment-6586 I never actually heard about how that 'friends of friends' thing works, Missus? Ketch was telling me about it but I must have half tuned him out at the time.. Good writeup, Zev :) I never actually heard about how that ‘friends of friends’ thing works, Missus? Ketch was telling me about it but I must have half tuned him out at the time..

Good writeup, Zev :)

]]> By: Missus http://www.saate.net/general/zevia/stranger-danger/comment-page-1/#comment-6582 Missus Tue, 20 Jul 2010 18:22:33 +0000 http://www.saate.net/?p=2905#comment-6582 The only thing that bugs me a bit about realID ingame is how you can check the friends of your friends, so you have to be incredibly careful about who you friend as their friends can see your name. Being female, I've had the white knighting happen to me before, also the "wtf are you doing out of the kitchen!" I know I had planned to never post on the forums again if the change happened. The only thing that bugs me a bit about realID ingame is how you can check the friends of your friends, so you have to be incredibly careful about who you friend as their friends can see your name.
Being female, I’ve had the white knighting happen to me before, also the “wtf are you doing out of the kitchen!” I know I had planned to never post on the forums again if the change happened.

]]> By: Khaas http://www.saate.net/general/zevia/stranger-danger/comment-page-1/#comment-6564 Khaas Tue, 20 Jul 2010 01:59:34 +0000 http://www.saate.net/?p=2905#comment-6564 It's a pretty tangled mess. I'm really just glad they decided not to go through with real names on the forums. As for the Facebook concerns: I don't want students looking me up on Facebook, then finding me in WoW to ask me for an extension on a paper. I don't think that's too much to ask? Or any other can of worms involved. My life in the game is you put it mutually exclusive from my life outside of the game, and that's how I want it. Moreover, I have a right to some amount of modesty/privacy do I not? Or do we all have a right to know what everyone else is doing behind closed doors, 24/7? Personally, I don't think we have such a right (and shouldn't). The key issue here is that the proposed plan did not "help" anyone really, it only hurt innocent people while doing little to trolls. As a friend said after the repeal of the real names on the forums, "damn and I had some good names picked out for my real ID account". If everyone starts using a fake name because RealID forces that name into the public eye, then why bother? TLDR Version /facepalm Blizzard. Anyhow, good write up as usual. It’s a pretty tangled mess. I’m really just glad they decided not to go through with real names on the forums. As for the Facebook concerns:

I don’t want students looking me up on Facebook, then finding me in WoW to ask me for an extension on a paper. I don’t think that’s too much to ask? Or any other can of worms involved. My life in the game is you put it mutually exclusive from my life outside of the game, and that’s how I want it.

Moreover, I have a right to some amount of modesty/privacy do I not? Or do we all have a right to know what everyone else is doing behind closed doors, 24/7? Personally, I don’t think we have such a right (and shouldn’t).

The key issue here is that the proposed plan did not “help” anyone really, it only hurt innocent people while doing little to trolls. As a friend said after the repeal of the real names on the forums, “damn and I had some good names picked out for my real ID account”.

If everyone starts using a fake name because RealID forces that name into the public eye, then why bother?

TLDR Version /facepalm Blizzard.

Anyhow, good write up as usual.

]]> By: Skrie http://www.saate.net/general/zevia/stranger-danger/comment-page-1/#comment-6561 Skrie Mon, 19 Jul 2010 23:57:05 +0000 http://www.saate.net/?p=2905#comment-6561 I agree with the time spent in character names. The least they could do is give the option to have 1 alias rather than just your full name, that i'd warmly greet. I agree with the time spent in character names. The least they could do is give the option to have 1 alias rather than just your full name, that i’d warmly greet.

]]>