The Real Name Fallacy
I think this is probably the key takeaway from the article here:<p>&gt; Designers need to acknowledge that design cannot solve harassment and other social problems on its own.<p>Trying to remove anonymity will not &#x27;fix&#x27; trolling and harassment. After all, a lot of people simply don&#x27;t care what others think of them, know they&#x27;re too far away to be affected (in most cases) or just have nothing to lose to begin with.<p>What can &#x27;fix&#x27; trolling is evenhanded, firm moderation of a community site. There are tons of forums and wikis and other such sites out there which do well here, because they simply lay out clear rules for participation and ban people for being scumbags and breaking said rules.<p>Facebook and Twitter struggle with this, partly because it&#x27;s impractical to manually moderate a site with so many users and partly because their model doesn&#x27;t really allow it. And maybe in part because they&#x27;re very clearly inconsistent with who gets banned for saying what (like say, banning more conservative accounts than liberal accounts for trolling). Which itself undermines confidence in the site&#x27;s rules.<p>So yeah, the key to an online community without harassment isn&#x27;t removing anonymity, it&#x27;s having clear rules in that place and enforcing them equally regardless of a member&#x27;s status or political views.