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Posts tagged ‘anonymity’

2011.07.26   “Real”/legal name communities behave better: where’s the evidence?   (16)

This is something I asked in comments here the other day: So I think at this point we ideally would turn to research: how do people perceive the quality of communities on the real name ...

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2010.07.07   Another round of “real names will solve everything”, Blizzard edition   (13)

Via everyone everywhere, Blizzard’s (developer of World of Warcraft and the Starcraft and Diablo franchises) game discussion forums are the latest online forum to come up with the bright idea to make everything all better ...

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2010.06.10   Hacker News and pseudonymity   (17)

Mark Suster has a post about improving civility on YCombinator’s Hacker News: I’ve seen vitriolic responses on HN on several occasion. I mostly get hammered on HN if I write about a controversial topic like ...

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2010.05.17   The linkspam-whore dichotomy (17th May, 2010)   (2)

Lightgetsin rants in The one where I shout about able-bodied technology privilege for a while: Also, the next person to tell me to get a Kindle . . . really shouldn’t. The Kindle occasionally reads ...

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