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[Runespider]

I'm sorry if this comes off as rude but I do not want to look around for your opinion. I asked you if you could name me the people you feel were good posters who stopped posting.

Look at hordecores last post on the front page, in there are many posters that were regulars here. If you check them reading down the list you will see many names where their last activity was around the time they added the new feature. The list of players that never upgraded their account shows quite clearly in that topic too, but yes I was thinking of the people you mentioned as well as others like raist and some others you can see in that topic.

I was hesitant to bother replying because ultimately you will come back with "the forum will live on without them" but that really isn't the point, the point is they are being denied access to a forum due to being forced to do something they should not have to do...and they should have every right to access this place without having to do something they disagree with and that serves almost no purpose. They have as much right to have their ideas and posts heard and discussed as anyone else, I was hoping for this forum to be used by as wide an array of FFXI players as possible.

Ya as I said before, and Karbuncle is addressing this, the act of a forum troll is not that their opinion differs... Oh no, its that they start an argument, and prolong it until people give up and accept their statement.

A troll is somone that posts things simply to get other people annoyed and getting enjoyment from that, they don't actually care about what they are posting about. Someone who dissagrees with you is not a troll, I am not trolling anyone. I don't care if you get mad or kiss my feet with adoration, it makes no difference to me. All I care about is that I feel this forced linking was a bad idea, that it did make us lose some decent posters, that I personally am against it as are some others and that it's warping the community here ("opinions of anyone that does not have a valid account linked is garbage" "a posters worth is more to do with who they are in game than what they have to say" etc). Idiocy.

when a ratio of 6 to 2 people agree that linking names is ok in the eyes of the community. To say otherwise is just denying majority vote here, and while we are not exactly a representation of the entire community, if a fraction of us say yes, and an even miniscule fraction say no, what do you think that will say in the grander spectrum of the community? Pretty sure the same thing.

As I said before the problem is a lot of people seem to of stopped posting, if not for the fact that we can use a mule and stay anon anyway there would of been at least another 3-4 from this topic alone. They can't post here anymore cause they can't post without doing what they refuse to do, some people had issues with this and drew the line.