"Would forcing users to verify their identities and post with their full names have any effect on the toxicity?" Probably not. Often time people are just as te

"Would forcing users to verify their identities and post with their full names have any effect on the toxicity?" Probably not. Often time people are just as terrible in person and social media just gives them more reach. "What if filters were used to prevent the most egregious words of hatred?" It's too easy to come up with new (((slurs))) to get around such censorship but still spread the same message. "Is it at all possible to have something like twitter that isn't as toxic, given the right features?" Social media often makes people more toxic by exposing them more directly to the opinions of others and they find that intolerable. A lot of the time, the nuances of certain kinds speech are different in different communities and those nuances are lost on social media and people become more toxic as a result. I suspect that carefully considered features could reduce toxicity of discussion, but I don't think that it is just a matter of features. Ultimately it's a people problem and people cannot just be automated around.