Blizzard have caused a storm of outrage with the news of RealID on their forums, which means members of their official forums will have to ditch their online aliases and start posting under their real names. The company says that this will stop a lot of abuse as posters will see that they are abusing real people and not an anonymous username. Folks are outraged over privacy issues. One poster didn’t seem to mind as some of his family even found it hard to find him on Facebook – then this happened to him. Another forum member has started a website filled of publicly found information on Blizzard employees, found when doing searches with their real names.
Would using your real name on a forum stop you from trolling, or would it make you more worried when you get into debates with other posters? Is this another warning that we should be more careful about what information we put about ourselves online?
