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Yeah, sorry, any venue that requires my True Name will never get more than cheerful fluff from me, no substantive opinions (unless they're utterly non-controver
by prodigal_erik 16y ago
Yeah, sorry, any venue that requires my True Name will never get more than cheerful fluff from me, no substantive opinions (unless they're utterly non-controversial) much less What You Can't Say. I rely on getting food and shelter by negotiating with other members of a nosy, judgmental, sometimes irrational species.
- greenlblue 16y agoI'm not really sure about that. Have you seen the kind of stuff people post on facebook? It's outrageous. You can get people to use their real identities and you can get them to share real personal stuff as long as you trick them into doing it with the right social incentives. What we can learn from this failed experiment is that rational arguments don't convince people to do anything even if you do offer higher signal-to-noise ratio.
- e1ven 16y agoFair enough, that's what I wanted to test ;) People post to HN while hoping that pg et all will give them money- There's even more on the line then there is posting under your name. I still think that people Would, if there were compelling enough content there to warrant the "price of admission", but since the site only works once people pay it by verifying themselves, it never builds up that unique content and discussion, so never will hit critical mass where people are willing to ID themselves to join.
- ryandvm 16y agoFacebook is what a social site looks like when you don't have anonymity - and I don't like it. People end up self-censoring about 3/4 of the things they want to say on Facebook so they don't offend anyone. It's an intellectually barren wasteland of harmless platitudes and abandoned thoughts. I appreciate where you were coming from with this idea, but I like a little anonymity to my Internet. It's the truth spice.