Surprisingly Good Evidence That Real Name Policies Fail To Improve Comments
YouTube has joined a growing list of social media companies who think that forcing users to use their real names will make comments less of a trolling wasteland, but there's surprisingly good evidence from South Korea that real name policies fail at cleaning up comments. In 2007, South Korea temporarily mandated that all websites with over 100,000 viewers require real names, but scraped it after it was found to be ineffective at cleaning up abusive and malicious comments (the policy reduced unwanted comments by an estimated .09%). We don't know...
Published By: Techcrunch - Sunday, 29 July, 2012
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Controversial Video Campaign Sparks Conversation and Other Top Comments 
Mashable (Yesterday) - There are two sides to every story, even a viral video.
In the top comments above, we've highlighted our readers' reactions to the contentious campaign against Abercrombie and Fitch. After the...