Facebook shuts down the Socialist Workers Party in Britain

Re:Facebook shuts down the Socialist Workers Party in Britain by TeMPOraL on Friday January 22, 2021 @07:02PM (#25878024)

This very site is a good counterpoint to your distinction. HN allows for easy creation of anonymous accounts, and doesn't do much to help you track who says what. And yet some people, by choosing to stick to their handle over time, build a reputation. And yet, even the anonymous people mostly behave, and we end up with a civil community.

Personally, I think the important factors for maintaining a civil community is a focus on civility, some overt selection of topics (vs. having a group that's about everything), and a lot of moderation work in the background that prevents the decay of standards. Social norms, unfortunately, don't maintain themselves.

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Re:Facebook shuts down the Socialist Workers Party in Britain by fossuser on Friday January 22, 2021 @07:05PM (#25878048)

Most HN accounts are pseudonymous with the occasional anonymous throw away for something specific.

HN also has great moderation (thanks DanG) and a strict set of rules which helps.

If HN was truly anonymous (everyone posted under anon accounts) I think it would decay and I’m not sure DanG would be able to save it.

I do think Urbit’s approach to this (low cost to creating an ID) is a really good one for handling this problem and the general problem of spam decentralized, and at scale.

https://urbit.org/understanding-urbit/urbit-id/

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