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By your logic we should all be over at 4chan to discuss startups and tech news. Hacker News is a perfect example of the good that can come from non-anonymity an
by marknutter 16y ago
By your logic we should all be over at 4chan to discuss startups and tech news. Hacker News is a perfect example of the good that can come from non-anonymity and 4chan is the perfect example as to why total anonymity will always lead to cesspools.
- m-photonic 16y agoHacker News isn't non-anonymous. If someone gives out their real name on HN it's because they want to. There is no substantial difference between the level of anonymity of HN and that of 4chan as far as real life identity is concerned.
- prodigal_erik 16y agoAs noted, HN doesn't ask for your real name (and I would never write anything of substance if it did). Yet it doesn't decay to /b/ because pg included tools to promote signal vs. noise and sometimes even steps in to moderate, and because it still has a critical mass of people who want to maintain its tone. There are workable steps short of making people unemployable.