That would be, I suspect, the heart of my irritation -- it's not the fears expressed which I can sympathise with. But in the context of dw_suggestions, it becomes a matter of site policy for myself as well. So there, it isn't talking about how you yourself feel about whatever feature, but talking about what you believe site policy should be and how other people should be able to experience the site as well.
I was honestly startled to realise I had such a severe reaction to the whole notion. And if you reframe it out of being an issue of site policy and acknowledge it only as a social dynamics issue that crops up when those who blog under their meatspace name have social media links to those who blog pseudonymously, with serious implications for those blogging pseudonymously, the irritation pretty much melts away.
I guess basically I don't think the site policy should attempt to enforce social norms above and beyond eliminating/preventing genuine harassment. It strikes me as -- a bad way of going about it, all around.
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Date: 2010-07-03 06:23 pm (UTC)I was honestly startled to realise I had such a severe reaction to the whole notion. And if you reframe it out of being an issue of site policy and acknowledge it only as a social dynamics issue that crops up when those who blog under their meatspace name have social media links to those who blog pseudonymously, with serious implications for those blogging pseudonymously, the irritation pretty much melts away.
I guess basically I don't think the site policy should attempt to enforce social norms above and beyond eliminating/preventing genuine harassment. It strikes me as -- a bad way of going about it, all around.