I forgot about the incessant hand-wringing and virtue signalling posts (typically made after someone reports a crime such as a street robbery), and these are al

I forgot about the incessant hand-wringing and virtue signalling posts (typically made after someone reports a crime such as a street robbery), and these are also made from behind anonymous usernames. (any social capital created anonymously like this is useless in real life, so the motivation must be for some other reason such as entertainment or personal satisfaction) Note, this is not me passing judgement on people -- quite the opposite -- the whole point is that they can't and wouldn't be like this in real life, but the medium of the forum allows for it, which makes this cocktail of usage characteristics on these fora a recipe for quite strange reading, over time.