3 ms·
The real name policy doesn’t seem to stop duplicate accounts, bots, and spammers on FaceBook or Twitter, it just ensures they have vaguely human names.
by bitumen 9y ago
The real name policy doesn’t seem to stop duplicate accounts, bots, and spammers on FaceBook or Twitter, it just ensures they have vaguely human names.
- cornholio 9y agoThat's quite a different issue, is it not? The spam bots come because the social network is successful, as they will come to any other network regardless of real name policy. What I'm saying is that anonymous accounts will prevent that success in the first place, because of the behavior of non-spam users. At least for a mass market product most regular folk would want to use, like Facebook.
- deleted 9y ago[deleted]
- Paul-ish 9y agoWe don't know what the services would look like without a real name policy.
- gaius 9y agoThe real name policy is barely enforced by FB, as long as a name is basically plausible they don’t even bother.