Posters on "JOB lv. 1" characters trolling

[Nynja]

Seeing as how you pretty much need to link your ffxi id to be able to post, how about modifying it so people cant hide behind troll mules to conceal their identity.

I dont see why a lv1 character would need to have 150+ posts here. How much feedback on the game can a lv1 character have? How many problems can a lv1 character run into? None, because a lv1 character probably hasnt done a damn thing in the game to begin with.


Surely they could lvl up their troll mules, but thats a lot of effort to conceal identity.

[Hayward]

I agree with this. Own your opinions, even if no one agrees with it.

[Prothscar]

I make myself look like an idiot on almost a daily basis, live that shit down or don't say shit at all.

[FrankReynolds]

I must create a fake Identity to hide the true Identity of my imaginary character so that real live people do not create other imaginary characters to hide the identity of their imaginary characters on my imaginary characters server and harass him.

[MojoJojo]

I must create a fake Identity to hide the true Identity of my imaginary character so that real live people do not create other imaginary characters to hide the identity of their imaginary characters on my imaginary characters server and harass him.

Dude, you just blew my mind........

[Malamasala]

I don't see why you care. It is the post you should be reading, not his character info. I just pity you people who need someone to be angry at.

[Alhanelem]

I don't see why you care. It is the post you should be reading, not his character info. I just pity you people who need someone to be angry at.

It's not that we're reading the character info. It's that the person posting has something to hide. People who troll usually don't reveal their character so that they can't take crap for it in game. It makes it easier for them to post crap. Posting with your real character shown shows that you're willing to take responsibility for what you post. Usually, if I see a lv.1 posting, I don't take what they're saying seriously.

In short, having a real character listed increases the integrity of the poster. After all, as has already been said, if someone was really level 1, they probably wouldn't be able to make reasonable arguments as to why Meteor is too broken or why SAM's imaginary level 99 instant death WS is crappy because they don't have access to those things yet. I think they should simply make it so your selected character / job must be at least level 30 to post.

[Insaniac]

I don't see why you care. It is the post you should be reading, not his character info. I just pity you people who need someone to be angry at.

I think the point is that complete anonymity promotes people being complete d-bags. It's not about having someone to be mad at. I think a lot of these obvious trolls would be less comfortable shitting on threads if people knew who the character behind the post was.

[Greatguardian]

I'd support this for different reasons. As it is now, legit level 1-20 players who come on these boards looking for help generally get yelled at or scorned because people think they're trolls.

The character profile system should just automatically link to the highest level job on the highest level character of any given SE account.

My testimony for those concerned about privacy is the same as it's always been. I have 3k posts. Most of this board hates me for some reason or another, typically for calling them retarded or correcting them on something at some point. I've never, ever received anything but compliments and cheers from forum posters who find me in-game.

Harassment is a paper tiger. In the off chance you piss off some crazy and they do mess with you, black list and GM them. There are systems in place for those sorts of things.

[Nynja]

Point is, theres a system in place where people have to link to their ffxi account to post...linking to a lv1 mule is bypassing the system and perhaps should be looked into.