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It's kind of interesting that he thinks anonymous questions should have just died, due to people abusing them. Whereas my experience of the site was that e-bull
by brigade 14y ago
It's kind of interesting that he thinks anonymous questions should have just died, due to people abusing them. Whereas my experience of the site was that e-bullies would simply sign up new accounts immediately after being banned, since no banning occurred unless someone went out of their way to complain.
Plus, due to the media attention he alludes to, the moderation team was hyper-sensitive so pretty much any complaint could get the account banned. So once the trolls realized this, they started baiting normal users into posting something slightly against the rules (or better yet combing history), then complaining and getting the victims banned. Then, if the victim doesn't contest the ban (you have to go out of your way to even figure out how to do this) and instead creates new accounts, the troll just reports those for more automatic bans.
All of this without affecting the troll, because the troll isn't using accounts they care about, if any at all. Anonymous trolls aren't much different than pseudonymous trolls, after all.
After a couple rounds of this, almost everyone I knew just gave up and moved on.