Anonymity, pseudonymity, and civility
2024-01-29 23:19:58.026246+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Yeah, if you've been around for any amount of time you already knew this: The Conversation: Online anonymity: study found ‘stable pseudonyms’ created a more civil environment than real user names
The article references a number of papers, and describes how they mined comments from Huffington Post's transitions from free-for-all to stable names to Facebook commenting. With predictable results.
https://doi.org/10.1177/003232171989138
Anonymity and Online Commenting: The Broken Windows Effect and the End of Drive-by Commenting