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Wednesday, September 18, 2013

postheadericon Banish the trolls but web debate needs anonymity

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The Huffington Post about the real names will not stop bad behavior and stifle lively exchanges

Thus, the owner of the Huffington Post has decided to ban anonymous comments on the site in mid-September. Speaking to reporters after a conference in Boston, Arianna Huffington said: "The trolls are just more aggressive and ugly and I come from London, where there are threats of rape and death I think freedom expression is given to people who are standing. what they say, and [are] not hide behind anonymity. We need to develop a platform to meet the needs of the Internet for adults. "

Very true

. I see nods. After all, both anonymous comments online seems to be stupid, nasty, cruel and ignorant. And this is the material that is tangent to the topic of this article is discussed. If people have to take responsibility for what they say in public, then surely perform better.

that seems like common sense. Whether you supported by evidence, however, uncertain because at the moment there is not a lot of research, and it seems to be largely anecdotal. The study I found most surprising is the experiment conducted by the (South) Korea Communications Commission in July 2007. From this month, all those who wish to comment on any of 146 Korean websites with more than 100,000 members was required by law to file registration resident or credit card.

The assumption behind the requirement was that people behave better if they were easily identifiable line. But it turned out that way. In any case, the Commission has recently announced that it would withdraw the registration requirement because it was ineffective in preventing people from posting abusive messages or spreading false rumors. When the law was introduced in 2007, represented 13.9% of malicious comments all posts on Internet issues. But a year later, the bad behavior has decreased by less than 1%.


The purpose of the research was to answer the criticism that there is no substantive difference between the pseudonymous and anonymous commentators. Disqus disagreed, arguing that if the actual names for authentication (establishing who you are), pseudonyms are an expression involving "an identity" choice, and therefore have a communicative function. Society has searched through its database data of 60 million users and comments to see how commenting 500m practice differed between users who were completely anonymous, those who use pseudonyms and those who signed through Facebook (and therefore forced to use their real names) .

The parameters used in the study are Disqus crude, but the results are nonetheless intriguing. User comments pseudonym significantly more "quality" (measured by the number of times the comment was "love" and answered) or anonymous users real name. And were

much
most prolific commentators: 61% of the comments are from users pseudonyms 500m, compared to 35% of anonymous users and only 4% of the brand on Facebook crowd .

And the moral of the story? Think twice, Arianna Huffington, before insisting on real names.


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