"It improves the quality of the discourse" That's a bold claim. Is there empirical evidence supporting it? Topix did an empirical study and found that anonymi

"It improves the quality of the discourse" That's a bold claim. Is there empirical evidence supporting it? Topix did an empirical study and found that anonymity in comments increased the quality of comments. http://blog.topix.com/2008/01/anonymous-comments-by-the-numbers.html http://blog.topix.com/2008/01/anonymous-comments-by-the-numb...