@Bessarion said in Ruiz:
One of the big problems with our community is that we have opted for identifiability with handles, but still operate with a Web 1.0 culture of anonymity when it comes to our actual identities. I'm not saying that we should all post our pictures and addresses or whatever, but this disconnect leads to identifiability without humanization and I think this is what leads to so many of the problems we have seen historically, here and on WORA and on BMD.
I don't know if I have a solution for this, but I do think that is a central issue of the cultural dysfunction of the community.
Call me a cynic, but I think all that would happen is that some of this abuse would drift from online to RL harassment.
As someone who has had someone threaten their RL due to having put together various pieces of discrete information dropped over a fairly wide period of time by myself and others to identify who I am on the other side of the keyboard, I think the more separation that people can have, the better.
If you think that none of the people that exhibit socially divergent tendencies online would show those same tendencies if they got a hold of someone's RL info, contact info, employer, etc (or simply threaten to do such to get what they wanted online)...