Quote Originally Posted by Alhanelem View Post
If you wind people up very easily...

Let me let you in on a secret. As you can likely glean from my post count and some threads I've participated in, I am rather infamous on these forums for certain things (which are really not entirely accurate, but that's a story for another day). Despite the ire I've sometimes drawn for my comments, I have NEVER been harassed ingame because of a comment I made on the forums.

You have nothing to fear unless you persistently and deliberately harass others yourself. There is basically no way that showing your actual character would subject you to abuse ingame. Even if it did, you could call a GM and get them suspended or banned for harassment.

That's not to say nobody's ever talked to me in game related to something I said on the forums. But I've never been harassed or bothered or attacked ingame for it. And For the most part, I actually like this, because it often results in discussion with forum lurkers who read but don't post on the forums. Often people are much more talkative ingame. Besides that, I have nothing to hide. Feel free to message my character ingame. If you decide to harass me, I'll simply use the ingame tools at my disposal to make it stop- blacklist and GM call.

Because of this, I have to agree that it is pretty lame to hide behind an internet alias that's already hiding behind another internet alias.
You have never been harassed in-game therefore it's impossible for it to happen to anyone else. Falling back on the GM is useless and illogical when confrontation can be avoided in the first place. They have a personal preference to remain anonymous, leave it at that.