On: The anonymity I know

[aestra]

> People positively compete to be giant assholes.

People compete to be giant assholes under their own names. Facebook logins with picture and all.

[wpietri → aestra]

I see much less of that on Facebook than elsewhere.

Nobody is suggesting that meanness first entered the world with computer-mediated anonymity. They're just asking whether it increases the frequency, depth, and persistence of it.