We thought this was going to be a huge deal: that people would behave very differently when they were and weren’t going by their real names. After watching the system for a while, we realized that this was not, in fact, the case. (And in particular, bastards are still bastards under their own names.) We’re focusing right now on identifying bad behaviors themselves, rather than on using names as a proxy for behavior.
Yonatan Zunger, Chief Architect at Google+, commenting on ‘Nymwars
Yonatan Zunger, Chief Architect at Google+, commenting on ‘Nymwars
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