I've always wanted to know why imageboards are encouraging anonymous posting so extremely. What's the advantage of anonymity?
For example, on 4chan, if you use tripcodes there, people will look upon you as a "tripcode fag". What's wrong with online usernames?
This discussion can be found on Wakaba's /soc/, and furthermore you are undoubtedly a stupid, tripcode-whoring faggot for opening this thread with such a pointed question.
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Hey! No flaming!
I'd reiterate all the points that have been made in http://wakaba.c3.cx/soc/kareha.pl/1110953600/ but I am too lazy right now.
Also, we have this thread on Anonymous posting:
http://4-ch.net/net/kareha.pl/1127551023
One more thing, though:
> What's wrong with online usernames?
It usually doesn't add anything to the form of communication and information exchange most of the time.
It has its uses but I have found posting and lurking to be much more enjoyable without having lots of fixed handles, signatures, avatars, etc. all the time. Except for required identification over a longer period of time (rarely needed) names and tripcodes don't serve any good purpose and are more likely to create drama (e-penis, cliques, tripcode cracking, etc.) which is not really what I am looking forward to on these type of boards.
Not to say that all users who post with handles are bad, though. Some are pretty classy and excellent and to be a good poster it really doesn't matter if you have a name or not. I find it more often than not that people who constantly use handles fall into the types of negative/annoying behavioural cycles which I pointed out above.
also http://wakaba.c3.cx/shii/shiichan
> What's wrong with online usernames?
Nothing. 4chan /b/ jumps on them because they mark attention whores, newbies and the self-important. The sort of people who are ripe for trolling, I guess. Don't take things in /b/ too seriously.
>>What's wrong with online usernames?
It encourages and builds unnecessary things such as reputations, and it makes it look like the named person can't do anything unless people know that it's him contributing, which leads to ego inflation and all sorts of other unsavory things.
Like I said above, a common view is that handlers/tripcoders want/need people to know who they are, despite the fact that nobody, aside from others like them, cares who they are. Being known and having a reputation will only make things worse.