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Anonymity is a tradeoff, and in my opinion it is hopelessly incorrect to focus on only one side of the tradeoff. It's like saying oxygen is bad because it's corrosive -- true, but it also happens to be essential to life.

There are times when anonymity can help people who are really in danger or who hope to call attention to broken systems. But you're never going to see that if you're focused on grousing about people being jerks. (I suspect that people do this as a way of elevating themselves above the muck, so to speak, but that is another topic entirely.)



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