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.
That's good to hear, however, I have been harassed in game (albeit not this one) due to comments I've made on forums.

And for the people like Bazookatooth who get harassed outside because of a game, what then do you do?

It's nothing to do with hiding anything it's more a case of removing the bother of being hassled when there is no real reason for anyone to know your character account in the first place and should have just been used to confirm your right to access the forum. As bazookatooth said, you'll notice how the only people commenting on it are the ones currently having a heated debate with you.