(07-07-2010, 09:21 PM)swirly Wrote:(07-07-2010, 08:11 PM)Tal Wrote: Interesting blog postWhat I would like to see with this is a comparison of what can be found without the real name and what can be found with it. Possibly include various degrees in between. Like maybe have one that is only using a name the person uses on the forum. Then one where you have all the person's character names. Then finally one where you have the person's real name. I actually suspect that the guy in that blog post could find much the same information just with character names. People post about their characters all over the place. Twitter, facebook, forums, etc. For somebody like that who knows what they are doing it likely wouldn't be that hard to link everything and end up at the same endpoint.
My point isn't that RealId is good, bad, or anything really. I'm making no statement about that. My point is that these claims don't mean much when you don't have a comparison point of what a person can find without the RealId data.
Some of us do not connect much of our real lives to the gaming tags that we regularly use. Try doing that search yourself on 'Ruvanal' and see if you can get very far. If you do; do not post any of it here in this public forum.
For a comparison, try to use the real name a friend at work or somewhere similar and see what the difference is on the amount of information that you get and how lost in the morass of information you might end up with.