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I'd call it being pseudonymous rather than anonymous. It doesn't always shield you from harassment. For example, I edited some articles relating to Sweden and t
by bjourne 8y ago
I'd call it being pseudonymous rather than anonymous. It doesn't always shield you from harassment. For example, I edited some articles relating to Sweden and the clever trolls on the site put 2 + 2 together and used that as an attack vector. I can only imagine what the insults would have been had I edited something more sensitive like about transgender issues or sexual fetishes or whatever.
I really think the site should have required real names for most editing. Pseudonymity brings out the worst in people.
- hombre_fatal 8y agoFacebook shows that people are perfectly capable of nasty things under their real names. Reading Facebook comments on popular videos and groups basically exposed pseudonymity=bad as a myth to my eyes.
- Tade0 8y agoSame here. People are also not that different in person - it's just that some of them don't go out much so you're unlikely to meet them and their horrible personalities.
- bjourne 8y agoBut there are degrees of hell. Facebook comments are usually not as nasty as Reddit comments which in turn are not as nasty as 4chan comments.
- icebraining 8y agoHow should Wikipedia require real names? And who would validate them?
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