On the meta-level, anonymously sharing negative psychoanalyses of people you’re debating seems like very poor behaviour.
Now, I’m a huge fan of anonymity. Sometimes, one must criticise some vindictive organisation, or political orthodoxy, and it’s needed, to avoid some unjust social consequences.
In other cases, anonymity is inessential. One wants to debate in an aggressive style, while avoiding the just social consequences of doing so. When anonymous users misbehave, we think worse of anonymous users in general. If people always write anonymously, then writing anonymously is no-longer a political statement. We no-longer see anonymous writing as a sign that someone might be hiding from unjust retaliation.
Now, Aprilsun wants EA to mostly continue as normal, which is a majority position in EA leadership. And not to look to deeply into who is to blame for FTX, which helps to defend EA leadership. I don’t see any vindictive parties or social orthodoxies being challenged. So why would anonymity be needed?
On the meta-level, anonymously sharing negative psychoanalyses of people you’re debating seems like very poor behaviour.
Now, I’m a huge fan of anonymity. Sometimes, one must criticise some vindictive organisation, or political orthodoxy, and it’s needed, to avoid some unjust social consequences.
In other cases, anonymity is inessential. One wants to debate in an aggressive style, while avoiding the just social consequences of doing so. When anonymous users misbehave, we think worse of anonymous users in general. If people always write anonymously, then writing anonymously is no-longer a political statement. We no-longer see anonymous writing as a sign that someone might be hiding from unjust retaliation.
Now, Aprilsun wants EA to mostly continue as normal, which is a majority position in EA leadership. And not to look to deeply into who is to blame for FTX, which helps to defend EA leadership. I don’t see any vindictive parties or social orthodoxies being challenged. So why would anonymity be needed?