Character name can't be hidden.

[Greatguardian]

The vast majority of stupid posts I've read on here were made by a linked poster, your idea although nice does not work out that way in reality. Check the forums yourself.

Still waiting on examples.

[Alistria]

You know, there are stupid people in the world and sadly a good majority of them play online games. I'm always telling my LS guys that they need to be careful of the enemies they make, otherwise some grand SE idea (Such as this one) Will make it a very hard situation for them.

While I don't think it's entirely a bad idea, I think that sometimes it makes things harder on people than it has to be because of said stupid people.

[Tsukino_Kaji]

Makes me think of the mantality of CS vs. Halo.(CS being superior of course.)

[Eeek]

Still waiting on examples.

Runespider and Atomic_Skull, in a sense, are providing examples in this thread: themselves. It's unfortunate that their examples run counter to their argument, but that's hardly a stumbling block in public discourse these days. Thinkin' and logic is for nerds. The correct line of argument is the one that feels right, man.

[Zaknafein]

Cha Ching!

[TybudX]

Point for The Opposition: Tsukino_Kaji doing massive safeface and backpedaling in emergency maintenance thread.

Thanks to this wonderful forum tool I now know to avoid Siren world transfer at all costs!

edit - Holy crap @ youtube rant in FFXI limited due to XIV thread... Siren, abandon ship! There is no hope!

[Runespider]

Oh, you mean Hordecore is still posting? last I saw he hadn't registered a character.

You said people posting from mules, many of us post from mules and do nothing negative towards the forums. You are picking one person that posted ages ago and trying to base an argument off that, he might of been banned for all you know.

It helps a lot, because people who hide behind a mule are basically known to be full of it. Look at that melee SMN guy for instance, and as I said, Hordecore doesn't even post anymore and never registered a character, that alone was worth it.

Many post from mules as I say and post lots of things on here that have nothing bad to be said about them, many which offer as valuable contributions as everyone else. If you want to make an argument against mule posters/hide feature then you have to show that people that would use it would be any more negative than the norm, of the small number of posters you can show that were bad "in the past" they should of been the people that would of been best suited to being banned.

[Greatguardian]

You're the one who made the initial claim that the worst posters on this board were "advertising their names" rather than being anon.

Instead of backpedaling, can you please give the class a few examples? Who are these forum nightmares that show off their character name as a badge of honor?

No one is making any sort of ridiculous claim that "All anon posters are evil". But if you want to claim that the worst posters on this board are non-anon, you have to back it up. Likewise, other people are going to counter you by saying that the absolute worst posters on this board are anon. Does that mean all anon posters suck? No. Stop inferring that it does. But it does mean that Hordecore, Dallas, et al are all anon posters and are considered by some here to be some of the worst trolls/posters on these boards.

[Runespider]

No one is making any sort of ridiculous claim that "All anon posters are evil".

Yes they are and have done many many times. I'll quote a recent one for you.

Why? Because anyone who hides on a mule isn't contributing anything worthwhile, if they were, they wouldn't be hiding on a mule.

I actually said many of the most stupid and pointless posts are from named posters, that doesn't mean regular posters. That EU maintenance post sticks in my mind, I could name regular posters that I consider worthless to these forums and that love to flame/spam up posts but I would rather not make it personal.

[TybudX]

But it does mean that Hordecore, Dallas, et al are all anon posters and are considered by some here to be some of the worst trolls/posters on these boards.

*cough*Starcade*cough*Kingfury*cough*

OK, Starcade might technically be anon, but we all know who he is. Hey, we all know who Marcus is, too!

edit - Not arguing for or against anything in particular, just pointing out two counter-examples where knowing not only the player's in game name, but also their actual real life name, has done nothing to curb their stupidity. Shit goes both ways.