Those days still exist. There are many great forums, and Reddit is still reasonable despite the trouble. Some sites, Quora, Facebook, et al. are using real na

Those days still exist. There are many great forums, and Reddit is still reasonable despite the trouble. Some sites, Quora, Facebook, et al. are using real name policies with mixed results. Facebook is mostly a negative for me, though I do enjoy a few private groups. Quora, of the real names experiments, has actually been a reasonable experience. 8 was early to the platform and many of us early on made strong efforts to set good norms around real names. A lot of that worked well. It is working a little less well at big scale, though like I said, not bad. Sometimes more authoritarian than I prefer. The new spaces feature is a big test. Could be real names Reddit. Hmmm... Having tried all extremes, I frankly still prefer pseudonyms. Handling trolls and such is not too big of a deal, and minor league for me personally. The number one thing one can do to innoculate a community against trolling is to educate members on agency in dialog and model strong norms as to how that can work. (People have more options than the usual righteous indignation and when they use them, trolling becomes largely ineffective as does "bitings" of varioys kinds) Avoiding the bigger venues leaves one with mostly the same basic experiences that have always had value. Typed on mobile, plz forgive typos