So you're going to stop posing here if you'd have to link your main character to your forum id?

Meaning you've got something to be ffxi-embarrassed about...and I really dont get why, it makes no sense.
I and I'm sure quite a few others would stop posting if it was made compulsary yeah, I don't have anything to hide really no but I don't want to be forced into doing something I see no purpose in either (It won't stop trolling, only proper moderation and the posters not continually falling for it will do that). There is no other forum I know of that has forced character linking and they all operate just fine, what makes this place so good to warrant such a system? As I said though, I don't really care anymore since this place has long since shown what it is, I doubt many others really care as much as they did when this topic came up last either.

If most posters want it then I hope they do add it for them, for those of us that don't like it we will post on another forum and be as equally ignored by the dev team as you guys here..no loss.