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Posts tagged ‘pseudonymity’

2011.09.26   Kathy Sierra: Take back the comments: stop online harassment   (9)

[Warning for ableism.] Kathy Sierra has published a video about online harassment, particularly an incident in 2008 targetting people with epilepsy, transcripted here.

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2011.09.18   Linkspam shattered on impact (19th September, 2011)   (9)

Linkspammed: GNOME Women’s Outreach, swearing in the work place, poor people and ebooks, and more.

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2011.09.06   Enough of this linkspamming nonsense (7th September, 2011)   (10)

Links for you! Is Wikipedia more or less gender-balanced than Encyclopædia Britannica? Is outing powerful tech figures OK? And how to praise girls.

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2011.09.02   Quick hit: the science front of nymwars   (5)

While the discussions about pseudonym use on Google+ continues on, there’s a different front that opened up in mid-August: Science Blogs, which is the home of a huge number of top science blogs, has decided ...

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2011.08.03   Pseudospam: nymwars continue   (12)

Links discussing pseudonyms, Google+ suspensions, Google’s reasoning and more.

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2011.08.02   Linkspamming saves lives (3rd August, 2011)   (7)

What do a PSA about backups, pseudonymity advocacy, Wikipedia and Hermione Granger have in common? They’re all linkspammed today.

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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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