ME TOO! Not to play the race card, but I suspect Nick is white from a affluent middle class family living in the burbs. Though now that we have his name maybe I should take the subtle queue and pay him a visit.

I love how people think the forums are so bad when probably a really low percentage of WoW players use the forums, and even fewer actually partake in all this “trolling” everyone is talking about. As someone who READs troll threads…. I think they are funny as hell. (90% of the time) I think trolling can be very therapeutic for frustrated individuals, and I for one have wanted to vent on occasion when someone pisses me off in game. I won’t make it personal. Maybe if you just hired a couple more moderators (who I think are doing an AWESOME job, btw) and make the penalties a little stiffer for being a “douche” you’d get the same results without punishing the majority of the forum posters that actually use the forum constructively.

I WAS optimistic about this, but now I just think it’s a horrid idea. Really. I don’t mind people know my real name, but gaming is an escape, only my personal friends know my real name. Just seems silly.

I canceled my WoW account, just so I could put it on record that I’m willing to quit because of RealID. I honestly will probably just re-up anyways, but I’m not really thrilled about it.

I didn’t say “vet” Wikipedia through SL. What I said is that Wikipedia needs a social media voting component that would help make it honest, and tried a few prototypes here:
http://secondthoughts.typepad.com/voting_wikipedia/

Then I theorized that the way to make the editors of Wikipedia become more accountable and less sectarian and less governed by arcane orthodox rules and more governed by common sense and the public interest would be to have a platform that would enable the passive public to interact with these anonymous and unaccountable avatars. Wikipedia is not social media and is not new media; a wiki in fact is not social media most of the time. It is the most brutal form of old media.

So to have the experts/editors/writers of pages to be in a world where you could go to their sim/page and talk to them, where their avatar would build up reputation points, where you could have discussions for the public, where you could rate/vote entries — well, it might make it better. It might save the project from its inevitable communist end.

http://www.brighthub.com/computing/windows-platform/articles/22166.aspx