Posters on "JOB lv. 1" characters trolling

[Nynja]

Oh and just to throw another spanner in the works for those this holy cursade to banish anonymity on a forum, many people have cure alt accounts these days. For instance this account is not my main, so even posting the actual main char on the account will offer very little to people from other servers that go check their FFXIAH page and post comments on it, like mr tacocat.

Who the hell cares about comments made on a ffxiah profile? The only people whos going to look at them are people relevant to the situation. You think someones gonna decline you to a VW alliance for that?


"Helllllllo (mr anon whos too scared to post his name because his balls still havent dropped yet), whaaaaaaaaats happenin. I was just doing a routine background check on you, and I found some disparaging comments on ffxiah profile. Yeahhhhhhh this guy posted that you're a retard, so I'm gonna pass you up for this undergeared pup, he atleast has friends. Mmmmmmmmkay. Oh, oh, and I almost forgot, I'm gonna tell my friends to avoid you, we uh...had some problems based on rumors, and we want to avoid that. Thaaaaaaaaaaaanks".

[Anewie]

If you feel someone is trolling, u blist them. I cant stand people who are determined to have a problem. I myself, blist every last person i think is a complete moron and is jiust trying to get a rise out of me. Why on earth would you want to see a troll comment? Why on earth do you care what a troll says? If your argument is, someone should own up to their views and show themselves, the question i have for you is, how does that benefit you exactly? you already stated you wouldn't harrase them or bother them in game, so why do you need to know who a troll is?

So you can avoid them in game? If someone is a true troll, they will act so in game, in which you would blist them there as well. If theyre only trolling on the board, then in game it doesn't benefit you to know who they are. Because in xi, they are not trolling. So im just not sure how knowing or not knowing who someone is on a board benefits a person.

Integrity of poster? Again, if you're someone who cares what other people think of your opinion, sure. But 90% of us don't care that much. This is a discussion board for a video game, it isn't that deep.If you don't like my opinion, or even respect it, I couldn't care less. Im still going to express it and if you're gonna troll me as a response, ill just blist and go on my merry way.

I suggest everyone does the same. Cause it's really not that big a deal.

[Nynja]

Yes we know you blist everyone...you blist everyone who has an opinion differing from yours. Must be a sad lonely world you live in.

[Nynja]

I guess since I can, I'll use you as proof of why people shouldnt be allowed to post on lv1 accounts,or atleast have a 5 post limit up untill a certain level...which makes sense considering SE allready has level restrictions in game on certain things (fishing for one):

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/me...16309-Benihana
Joined 04-18-2011
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/members/4201-Anewie
Joined 03-08-2011

I'm not exactly sure when SE forced character linking...but look at these post tenures:
Apr 11: both post
May 11: Anewie, no Benihana
Up untill mid june: Anewie only
Mid june till aug: Anewie disappears
Benihana has a couple posts in september, disappears for 2 months and resurfaces around christmas for a week. Disappears again only for Anewie to appear.
You probably have more troll accounts that no ones noticed.

Both share similar signatures: ridiculously stupid gif, and attacking greatguardian.

[SNK]

I totally concur that people need to grow a pair and post under their real characters instead of thier mules.

[Aeonk]

Not like your "forum rep" matters anyway. I'd guess that less than half the playerbase posts on any of the active forums, so even if you're labeled a troll or bad player, it's more than likely not going to come back to haunt you. You may occasionally get the one or 2 players who frequent forums and know who you are, but for the most part you are still anonymous.

So yea, hiding behind a lvl 1 mule account is kind of a moot point.

[Yinnyth]

LOL people are gonna hack my account if they know my name....

Seriously just be real about it. You either post from a mule account because you want to start shit without anyone being able to trace it back to you. Or the game you talk of here on the forum doesn't match up to your ingame gear/progression. Very simple.

LOL trolling is gonna stop if people know the real character name...

Seriously just be real about it. You either want to know their real char names to torment their character ingame or because you just want to reinforce your false belief of superiority. Very simple.

You've heard it here first folks. I'm going to spend 25$ to worldshift my character to troll someone because I now know whos responsible for the dumbshit comments they're making.

So, Nynja, are you defending his post that there are only 2 reasons people would hide behind a mule account on the forums, or are you just shooting down my post that there are only 2 reasons people would demand to know the real identity of a poster? Because I'll be the first to admit I wasn't serious about that post. It was a duplication of his post only I substituted his closed-minded opinions with closed-minded opinions on the other side of the spectrum to create contrast and hopefully help other people to realize he is vastly oversimplifying the issue. Now if you agree with him that those are the only 2 possibilities, well, there is no way for a closed mind to be forcibly opened, so I'd be wasting my time here.

Then why require account linking? for lulz?

Beats me, I'm not them. How about you ask them? I always assumed it was to create a little more diversity in avatars so it would be slightly easier to tell posters apart from one another at a glance, but who am I to say? And for that matter, who are you to say? You're not them, so you're not qualified to state what their intentions are unless they themselves have already made it clear. It certainly wouldn't be the first time they did something annoying for their players for seemingly no reason (Hi, ClickAn- oh right, that was for our "own safety" or some BS they fed us about that)

Now if it IS INDEED WHAT THEY INTEND, then they have every right to re-write the ToS, implement your suggested changes, and flip me the bird. But there are currently no rules against it, so unless SE says or does something about it, anyone who says "but they're circumventing the system SE put into place to avoid this" is merely speculating, and my speculation is worth just as much as anyone else's. And my speculation is that we're giving away enough of our identity already, and that if your changes were implemented, trolling on internet forums would not see much of a decrease.

[Nynja]

Beats me, I'm not them. How about you ask them?

I'm trying...

[Lafaiel]

The thing about level 1 mule trolls is people can smell the troll coming a mile away, all it does is just brand them as a troll right off the bat and show them as being pretty dumb, I've always been a proponent of posting on your main, weather it be trolling or a serious post.

Trolling on your main gives your post credibility and makes it a lot harder to differentiate it from a troll, as for trolling on your level 1 alt lol, spineless, you need to put your conviction in it or no one will take it seriously, like they say, get on my level.

[Yinnyth]

Yeah, to be fair to you, I'm pretty much asking the impossible. Getting a straight answer out of SE is like trying to get milk out of a rock.