Online anonymity: study found ‘stable pseudonyms’ created a more civil environment than real user names
'What matters, it seems, is not so much whether you are commenting anonymously, but whether you are invested in your persona and accountable for its behaviour in that particular forum. There seems to be value in enabling people to speak on forums without their comments being connected, via their real names, to other contexts.
...calls to end anonymity online by forcing people to reveal their real identities might not have the effects people expect'
@mia It will have the wrong effect. It's been shown that real names on the World of Warcraft forum changed very little, and that, might actually spill easily IRL if you get people to stop giving a crap about protecting their real identities
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@coolboymew @mia It didn't fix news sites. They tried mandatory real name policies, but that didn't work so they decided to just get rid of commenting all together.
@xianc78 @coolboymew @mia Eh, totally unauthenticated comments were likely killed off over spambots not mean posts.
@birdulon @xianc78 @coolboymew @mia "they keep recommending pp pills to me they must be making fun of my small pp :'c"
@hakui @xianc78 @mia @coolboymew "oh shit someone bumped that old thread, is there finally a solution?!"
@coolboymew @mia Speaking of which, I miss when blogs and other sites allowed you to comment without an account. Even Blogger/Blogspot had an option to comment completely anonymously. Now, people think that that kind of practice just leads to imageboard culture when that has never been the case from my experience.