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!!pTIUOQ72p7k 08/23/10(Mon)13:26 No.11756335>Consider,
Poole explains, how the fixed identities in other online communities
can stifle creativity: where usernames are required (whether real or
pseudonymous), a new user who posts a few failed attempts at humor will
soon find other users associating that name with failure. "Even if
you're posting gold by day eight," says Poole, "they'll be like, 'Oh,
this guy sucks.' " Names, in other words, make failure costly, thus
discouraging even the attempt to succeed. By the same token,
namelessness makes failure cheap--nearly costless, reputation-wise, in a
setting like 4chan, where the Anonymous who posted a lame joke five
minutes ago might well be the same Anonymous who's mocking it
hilariously right now. -Moot, on why tripfaggotry sucks for everyone. |