On 26 September 2013 18:07, Greg Grossmeier greg@wikimedia.org wrote:
<quote name="Matthew Flaschen" date="2013-09-25" time="21:50:19 -0400">
- Real-name comments (my understanding is people are less likely to
be rude if using their real name, though I don't think it magically solves the whole problem)
I thought this was actually a bunk theory? For my non-science reasoning: see facebook. Full of hateful/stupid/racist/etc/etc comments.
Yes. (a) there's no evidence for this theory (b) it's seriously discriminatory:
http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Who_is_harmed_by_a_%22Real_Names%22_polic...
- d.