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"[...]88% of trolls are on Twitter." And this is the reason of stalled growing of the platform. Anom users is a recipe for disaster.
by marvel_boy 12y ago
"[...]88% of trolls are on Twitter."
And this is the reason of stalled growing of the platform. Anom users is a recipe for disaster.
- wiml 12y ago"Anom users is a recipe for disaster", says someone known only as "marvel_boy". I've always been pretty skeptical of the "anonymity causes bad behavior, non-anonymity causes good behavior" theory, especially since the supporting argument usually consists only of a link to a Penny Arcade comic. Certainly some of the best and most humane communities I've been part of have been largely anonymous or pseudonymous, and some of the most vitriolically toxic have been tied to peoples' other (persistent and supposedly "realer") identities.
- amagumori 12y agoanonymous communities tend towards being a cesspool after they reach a certain size. small anonymous communities are often great
- walterbell 12y agodepends on moderation algo, see HN
- amagumori 12y agotrue enough. *unmoderated communities of a certain size
- realusername 12y agoAnonymous users (nicknames) worked quite well for Reddit, this problem also depends on other factors I guess.
- Retra 12y agoThese are the two most important variables in my (personal) experience: Average age of user. Average word count of posts. Raise these (up to a point) and you'll get better content. Lower them, and you'll get worse.