Re:Rumble, an open source, offline, censorship resistant mic...
by zimpenfish on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @06:55AM
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> Adding reputational cost has been tried,
And works, sometimes - there's a non-small number of people who have posted terrible things under their real names and suffered real-world consequences for it. It doesn't work often enough, however, to make it a real deterrent.
> Don't you wonder why HN is such a nice place despite no full name policy?
I dunno, it has its share of toxicity (but, really, no more than any other forum but also it's not a bastion of goodness either.)
And works, sometimes - there's a non-small number of people who have posted terrible things under their real names and suffered real-world consequences for it. It doesn't work often enough, however, to make it a real deterrent.
> Don't you wonder why HN is such a nice place despite no full name policy?
I dunno, it has its share of toxicity (but, really, no more than any other forum but also it's not a bastion of goodness either.)