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How Blizzard could fix its forums without Real ID

13 Jul

Last week, Blizzard tried to introduce a new feature in its forums: forcing users to post using their real name. Of course, this was met with a lot of controversy about the dangers and negative impacts of having your real name being associated with a comment on a gaming forum (employers having prejudices against gamers, stalkers or just crazy people wanting revenge against other players). I won’t go into more details about why forcing users to use their real names is a bad idea, this topic has been covered enough.

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