Official forum changes, real life names to be displayed (at Blizzard)

[Michael OLeary]

No, not here at Army.ca - but it is happening on the Blizzard gaming servers.

In an interesting development to change the tone of their forums and put names to the trolls, they are having users' real names appear next to all of their forum posts.  We shall see if this starts a trend to decreasing anonymity (and increasing responsibility for personal comments) on Internet forums.

See more at link and plenty of commenary available through Google[/url.

 

[Neolithium]

I like it.  Granted I have not played World of Warcraft in a very long time, when I was an active player the trolling was to the point of completely out of control.

 

[ModlrMike]

I admit that I like it too. Too many casual forums have too many trolls who make life difficult for honest posters. That being said, as the early experiment seemed to show, there is a danger of leakage into the real world. It's not too difficult to obtain significant information about a person once you know their real name.