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How would you fix the problem of sock puppets, the absurd cruelty that online anonymity tends to bring out over time, and the potential for doxxing those pseudo
by kleer001 6y ago
How would you fix the problem of sock puppets, the absurd cruelty that online anonymity tends to bring out over time, and the potential for doxxing those pseudononmous accounts?
- darawk 6y agoPseudonymity in my experience tends to lead to less cruelty than anonymity. I think the cruelty problem is solved reasonably well by strict moderation and intentional, reputation-based communities. When people care about the reputation of their pseudonym, and the culture awards respect to those who maintain those standards, they can be maintained reasonably well.
- kleer001 6y ago> strict moderation and intentional, reputation-based communities Those sound expensive, as in time, time and money, or just money. But I don't have a lot of experience in that space. What's your experience with that?
- darawk 6y agoThey can be, although often community members are willing to do the work for free. An example of this working well is the slatestarcodex community, the blog that recently canceled itself because of the NYT piece that was coming out on it. It has a community over at: https://reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex https://reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex and https://reddit.com/r/themotte https://reddit.com/r/themotte That, despite often discussing controversial issues, remains mostly civil and low cruelty.
- kleer001 6y agoLovely! I wish there were more of them. I guess only by adding 'rarity' to my list of costs would make it wholly correct.