Ever wondered why people who have been hacked rush to the forums and exclaim, “Help help! I’ve been hacked!” Ever been annoyed by the posters who no longer play, but come back once in a while to cause general havoc? Well, grief no longer.

Today the Blizzard team made an unexpected but wholly welcome change, requiring that authenticator users ping to post. From now on, posters who “oh noes gotz hacked!” will be forced to read the stickies placed on the forums for their benefit over a year ago, because in all likelihood the mobile authenticator a hacker will place on their account will prevent them from posting, and force players to follow the correct course of action in order to get their accounts back in order.

Score one for the Blizzard Devs for finally devising an intelligent way to cut down on the spam that filled our screens each time someone would rush to post before reading.

Well done.

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