Pot-Stirring Time

[kandrathe]

It takes effort to enforce a modicum of proper behaviour.

1) Validating sign up via e-mail response is at least a start -- the next step is to require some type of Credit Card # and a small token one time fee. If you steal or forge that or in anyway abuse it then, it is called fraud. If you are under 18 and your parents need to help you sign up, then you will probably be even more careful - or not (see #3). If you were Blizzard you might even include the "free" battlenet membership with a secret code within the packaging of the game -- thereby also ecouraging people to buy legitimate copies of the game.

2) You can maintain the alias and still associate that with real world information (just like here at the lounge)

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3) True, but if you get banned for violating the sites TOS or being a jerk and then lose your $12 one time signup fee -- how many times will you reapply and continue to be a jerk?