Actually, real name accounts produce comments of lower quality than those made by pseudonyms:
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/01/real-names-dont-make-for-better-commenters-but-pseudonyms-do/251240/https://web.archive.org/web/20160516101013/https://disqus.com/research/pseudonyms/
I’d argue that this doesn’t measure the harms I was talking about.
Still, I like that you replied to a 3 year old comment with actual data.
(I was searching to try to find out if upvotes on here are anonymous. 😬)
Well, you can now see that you don’t know who upvoted your comment (but it was me).
I’m not sure if admins know or not.
Actually, real name accounts produce comments of lower quality than those made by pseudonyms:
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/01/real-names-dont-make-for-better-commenters-but-pseudonyms-do/251240/
https://web.archive.org/web/20160516101013/https://disqus.com/research/pseudonyms/
I’d argue that this doesn’t measure the harms I was talking about.
Still, I like that you replied to a 3 year old comment with actual data.
(I was searching to try to find out if upvotes on here are anonymous. 😬)
Well, you can now see that you don’t know who upvoted your comment (but it was me).
I’m not sure if admins know or not.