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People don't seem to understand that a lot of negative behavior exists in a context, and if you remove the context, the negative behavior can largely disappear.
by chasing 9y ago
People don't seem to understand that a lot of negative behavior exists in a context, and if you remove the context, the negative behavior can largely disappear. It doesn't necessarily just go elsewhere.
- bandrami 9y agoThis gets to a Harvard study I now can't find that suggested that anonymity online is a red herring. Anonymous and whatever the opposite is (named? nonymous?) people are equally likely to follow community norms -- anonymous people are actually slightly more likely to. The problem is not the anonymity, the problem is the community norms, which in the banned subs were horrible.
- glaslong 9y agoDo you know the title, author or journal by any chance? This sounds interesting, but it seems my google skills are lacking.
- bandrami 9y agoSorry for the delay; it was (ironically) deep in my HN comment history: https://blog.coralproject.net/the-real-name-fallacy/ https://blog.coralproject.net/the-real-name-fallacy/