With the real names thing, they might have the startling success of Google Plus! A real names policy is one of those perennial ideas people keep thinking will

With the real names thing, they might have the startling success of Google Plus! A real names policy is one of those perennial ideas people keep thinking will fix everything - but there's zero evidence for this, and some evidence against it. The total examples I have: * In 2007, South Korea required commenters on sites with over 100,000 users to supply their Resident Registration Number (national identity number), and this reduced malicious comments by ... 0.9%. They scrapped it in 2011. http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2011/12/30/2011123001526.html http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2011/12/30/2011... * UK, 2007: a study of students showed they were worse, not better. "There was four times as much flaming when they knew each other than when they didn't." https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2007/jul/12/guardianweeklytechnologysection.privacy https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2007/jul/12/guardianw... * In a now-unavailable post to Google+ by Yonatan Zunger, one of the people whose problem Google+ was, he said: https://plus.google.com/+YonatanZunger/posts/WegYVNkZQqq https://plus.google.com/+YonatanZunger/posts/WegYVNkZQqq > "While there was an expectation that people would behave better when their activity was tied to their own identity, as that identity is presumably a highly valuable and non-renewable resource to them, the evidence weighed against it: people seem quite willing to be jerks under their own identities." Voice has put forth this policy that's completely lacking in evidence, presumably because they just felt like it'd work out fine. And that's before we get to Voice's core audience being the crypto crowd - who have some reluctance to provide full KYC dox to join EOS Twitter. If anyone ever tries to tell you that a Real Names policy is a good idea - ask them for their numbers on this. Also, did you know Voice paid $30m for the name voice.com? A historical record amount - even sex.com only went for $13m. https://domainnamewire.com/2019/06/20/yes-voice-com-is-the-most-expensive-publicly-announced-domain-ever-sold/ https://domainnamewire.com/2019/06/20/yes-voice-com-is-the-m...