While we can wish very hard that credibility is a tradeoff with anonymity, any real world data shows that reality is far from that simple. It is not hard to fi

While we can wish very hard that credibility is a tradeoff with anonymity, any real world data shows that reality is far from that simple. It is not hard to find Facebook groups that are far far more toxic than most Reddit groups, for example. Most USEnet identities were not hard to associate with real world identities, but the quality of those posts was not obviously better than those that weren't. And so on. There are differences between the groups, but perhaps those have more to do with whatever contemporary issues that carry social stigma than with signal quality. And social stigma is very different between societies and tends to change over time. One generation can upend them completely, and any solution to social credibility must take a longer aim than that.