Total anonymity may lead to this anarchy, but having a persona that's not tied to your everyday life, your social status and appearance, but to your status in a

Total anonymity may lead to this anarchy, but having a persona that's not tied to your everyday life, your social status and appearance, but to your status in a specific web-based society or a sphere of your interests, this is what helped moving meaningful discussion forward. What really devastated so much of the pre-social-network internet is erosion of this practice, in my opinion.