Over on the World of Warcraft forums, Tyren announced that personal and team ratings will now be required when purchasing Season 3 armor and weapons, a move that might not be well-received by members of the WoW community.

The official statement from Tyren after the jump!

 

Disabling forum links. It's one way to lessen the presence of keyloggers on the World of Warcraft forums, and after the recent events that occurred in WoW-land, some folks are starting to agree with the sentiment of disabling links on the official forums.

Sweet of Korgath simply stated it, that Blizzard should turn off links on the forums. Immediately after the post, community manager Tyren chimed in with a statement of agreement. He writes,

We are always looking to increase security for our players, and while it may be inconvenient, in this case, I think your suggestion is the best way to go, and we will look into doing away with auto links."

In this case, auto-linking refers to how the forum software automatically turns lines of URL code into hyperlinks for people to click on and follow.

For the most part, people seem to agree with the idea, chiming in here and there with their own suggestions. Agreement seems to have come more naturally this time though, as a result of Nethaera and Drakthul getting hacked themselves and posting keyloggers on the forums.

The end of autolinking wouldn't detract much from forumgoing, and it increases, albeit rather incrementally, the protection people have against keyloggers. How about you? Do you agree with the idea, or do you think there are better ways to solve the problem of keylogging.

 

World of Warcraft Forums member Semoravene asks why Iriel had been added to the Community MVP - or Most Valuable Poster, those forum guys who post in green - list while the MVPs for Tandaa and Piril have been excluded. Community Manager, Blizzard Poster">Tyren, responds with this:

Iriel is designated as a Community MVP since the WoW Community team is in contact with him regarding his participation in the MVP program. The CS MVPs are in touch with the CS forum team, and likewise, the Tech Support MVP is in contact with the Tech Support team.

I guess Iriel is a unique MVP since he is very knowledgeable about UI mods, but we have only the 3 different types of MVP programs going on so Community was the closest fit in this case.

Despite other poster's problems with the Blizzard's MVP program - they say it's a failure - Semoravene, seems content with Tyren's response. But what about the rest of you folks? Do you think Blizzard's MVP program is doing what it's supposed to do?