Posters on "JOB lv. 1" characters trolling

[Nynja]

You just read what you want to read lol...

Whats the point of forum linking if everyone links to a troll mule to keep anonymous?

[FrankReynolds]

Whats the point of forum linking if everyone links to a troll mule to keep anonymous?

They thought it would be neat if you could show everyone how awesome your character is.

[Alhanelem]

And everyone has something to hide. I, for example, will not tell you my real name.

We're not asking for your real name. We're not asking anyone to give any personally identifiable information. The real character you're using is no more personally identifiable than any mule you could be on, so what harm is there in using it? Asking people not to post from a mule and asking people to give their name and address are two totally different things.

[Eric]

And you're so brave for making incendiary remarks against a group of people when they have no way of tracing your avatar back to the human being who controls it. The hypocracy of calling these people "cowards" is sickening. Even if they're forced to link a level 99 character to their forum account, they're still effectively anonymous. Woo, they're so brave now.

And yet these people still lack the balls to post from their real characters. The fact that we're still anonymous even with our characters out in the open doesn't say anything about how "brave" I am, it says something about how pathetic these people must be to want to hide their already anonymous identity behind yet another anonymous identity.

[Mirage]

Just for the record, I'm not using an alt as my character. I just picked pup cause lolpup.

[Babekeke]

I guess if I totally sucked at this game but wanted to post in these forums, I'd have to link to a level 1 mule so noone recognised me and pointed out that I suck. If that happened, everyone would ignore everything I said anyway. I guess the only way around it is to just ignore list anyone on a level 1 mule account as a safeguard

Just for the record, I'm not using an alt as my character. I just picked pup cause lolpup.

I generally check on ffxiah if a player has other jobs levelled, so you shan't be ignored^^

[Yinnyth]

You just read what you want to read lol...

Whats the point of forum linking if everyone links to a troll mule to keep anonymous?

To avoid character counterfeiting. What if you could set your character name and world as anything you wish? I could create an account with the same avatar, character name, and world as yours, and go around acting like an ass on the forums. Would make you look pretty bad overall.

It's as likely a reason as yours, so unless we get a moderator response, we can't really say these level 1 posters are circumventing the intended system unless we're pretending to know things we don't.

We're not asking for your real name. We're not asking anyone to give any personally identifiable information. The real character you're using is no more personally identifiable than any mule you could be on, so what harm is there in using it? Asking people not to post from a mule and asking people to give their name and address are two totally different things.

I must admit, they are indeed 2 completely different things. But perhaps I should put this a different way to make it a little more relatable to a society who is completely willing to share every last detail of their FFXI life on these forums to anyone with the will to seek that information.

Not only will I not tell you my name, but I won't tell you which city I owe allegience to ingame. Nor will I tell you what rank I am. Nor will I reveal the gear I use. I won't tell you jack about myself or my character unless it's pertinent and important to the conversation we're having. My reasoning behind this is that these forums and the game are not the same thing. My actions ingame should not haunt me here, and my actions here should not haunt me ingame.

Now, I have information I can share about certain aspects of the game, and I can cite a few credentials if the information I'm giving is a bit hard to believe. But I am under no ogligation to you or anyone on these forums to share who I am or how I play. I don't think anyone should be. Judge me for who I am here, not in ffxi, not in any other game, not in real life. And for God's sake, don't you dare think of seeking me out anywhere but these forums if something I do on these forums offends you. Just retaliate here.

In a society which thrives off giving every bit of personal information on websites like facebook and twitter, I really don't expect every last person to understand why other people would want to lie low and reveal as little as possible, but it would be nice if they at least accepted the desire.

[Nynja]

I had to go to the clinic today, and they announced my name to the public to get my attention that the doctor will see me. Can you believe that? All the people in the clinic waiting their turn now know my name. THEY RUINED MY ANONYMITY. Theyre gonna stalk me and taunt me and burn my house down because I got to see a doctor before them.

Does the above make sense? It should...because I'm just following suit to what you've been saying.

[Kimble]

If you really don't want people to know who you are in game, then don't be surprised when no one gives a crap what you have to say about game mechanics, etc.

[Atomic_Skull]

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.

Nynja complaining about trolls is pretty ironic.