Character name can't be hidden.

[Ravenmore]

It's not like everyone cares who everyone is. No one here walks up to a random stranger and demands to know their character name.

Here's the situation: You're in a business conference, and some jackass is running around telling everyone their that their companies are total crap and no one knows what they're doing. Despite their best efforts, it is impossible to get rid of this jackass, so he continues to spout his crap all over the conference. Naturally, people wonder what the hell is so great about him and his company that he has the gall to talk down to everyone else there. When people realize he is a representative of Myspace and his company was just sold off for $30 million (after being bought for $580 million), they realize he's a total gimp and laugh their asses off at him.

Boy don't get tired of seeing that. I had a mule linked for first week or so show I really didn't care for them wasting time on something so easy to get around. I really don't care if someone knows who I am in game why after I protested a little I linked my main.

Blist is one of the 7 wonders of Vana'deil. So even if they do bother to go out thier way to harrass they can find a nice spot there.

[Zaknafein]

Ugh.. this thread hasn't died yet? Best way to handle this is just to ignore them. They post in a thread.. don't reply to them. They will either get tired of it, and cowboy up. Or they can continue to grumble anonymously till the cows come home. Either way everyone wins. There's really no point in setting the required level to post at 90 because the really die hard ones will go burn up a mule to 90 (like they burned the rest of their jobs on their main) to keep their anonymity intact.

Only way to combat this issue is to refrain from acknowledging shady posters.

[Runespider]

The day we start being able to send anonymous /tell messages in FFXI, you come back to this point again. No privacy is being given up. This is a first party forum for a video game that is accessed using your character information from said video game. This may as well be an amalgam of Port Jeuno, with the ability to communicate between servers.

The same rules and the same moderators manage both these forums and the game's chat system. If anything, these forums are more strictly moderated rather than less. There is no assumption of privacy concerning your character name. Honestly, I'm just surprised this feature didn't come standard with the original release. If it had, I doubt anyone would have an issue with it.

People have differing oppinions on privacy, some do want to try to keep forum and game seperate. Not for any negative or shadey reasons either, cause let's be honest you don't see all the mule posters doing anything different to anyone else. If there was any validity to many outlandish claims made here we would be running rampant abusing the forum at every opportunity, the only negative comments and judging are coming from linked posters sadly.

For many this really is a privacy issue and although to you and many it's a non-issue to us it obviously is. Given that this is being got around anyway we just simply think it would of been far better to of had the option to be anon if we wanted to, it would of stopped all the worry, controversy and this topic would not of existed.

If it had, I doubt anyone would have an issue with it.

This is honestly the heart of the problem, if it would of been there at the start those that had a problem would of never joined. As it was we joined, got into using this place and then it was forced onto everyone with no real reason.

[Scuro]

Why is this still going? lol

[Dallas]

Why is this still going? lol

Because truly creepy people ignore "no."

[Runespider]

Why is this still going? lol

Stop posting in it if you don't like it.

[TybudX]

Define worst, and point out a few specific examples. As far as I'm concerned, almost all of the absolute worst posters on these boards post anonymously.

+1

I proved without a doubt that I was the only person capable of perpetuating the longest thread.

Your thread isn't something to be proud of.

I have told everyone who I am

No, but we can pretty much guess.

I am the same poster from wiki forums who directly caused 2 unpopular pet jobs to be nerfed. I had a choice. Share with the entire community, report it as broken and avoid it, or risk a Salvage-esque end to my gaming career. Post nerf, both jobs still jumped 6 positions in the census because of my choice.

Straw man much?
a) Other players reported it on this site, not you. I see nothing you said that insinuated you would report the problem.
b) Neither job saw a rise in popularity because of the nerf, not to mention, lol 'your choice'. Good luck finding any kind of correlation there. You may as well claim the sun rises because you open your eyes in the morning.

[Dallas]

No, but we can pretty much guess.

Do whatever your creepy desires tell you to do.

[katz]

Did we ever get to the reason why they wanted the names to show? Maybe it if was stated then people could chose better what jobs they want people to see. If it was so that people could contact you in game, I can understand why people chose not to show it. If it was to see which job you consider to be your main well I have 11 main jobs. I rotate as necessary. If its the current job you are working on then thats the one I published. If it was to establish some sort of hierarchy over others who dont have the same job levels, that was just wrong. If it was to link people to chars then why display it.

[Arlan]

Well I just got my Mule registered.
Good to be back to the forums.

kinda lame how SE requires ur ingame info to be registerd to public.
I think this should be optional because people have different preferences and that should be fine.
SE does have our in game info, I dont see why we must be required to let everyone else know as well.

Oh well. =)