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People don't seem to understand that a lot of negative behavior exists in a context, and if you remove the context, the negative behavior can largely disappear. It doesn't necessarily just go elsewhere.


This gets to a Harvard study I now can't find that suggested that anonymity online is a red herring. Anonymous and whatever the opposite is (named? nonymous?) people are equally likely to follow community norms -- anonymous people are actually slightly more likely to. The problem is not the anonymity, the problem is the community norms, which in the banned subs were horrible.


Do you know the title, author or journal by any chance? This sounds interesting, but it seems my google skills are lacking.


Sorry for the delay; it was (ironically) deep in my HN comment history:

https://blog.coralproject.net/the-real-name-fallacy/




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