I did say “unless they’re deliberately trying to keep their physical identities secret”, which covers this? Or are you suggesting that having something in between just using real names and maintaining full separation between online and physical identities is useful?
“In that post, it seemed like you were thinking of ‘keep identities secret’ as a rare thing some people might want to do’, and I think the framing of this post suggests something more like ’keeping identities secret is in fact a sensible default, and whether our culture nudges you towards or away from it is a pretty high level decision, and if you’re worried about LW as a whole being safe from political machines, it probably makes sense to default harder to anonymity.”
I did say “unless they’re deliberately trying to keep their physical identities secret”, which covers this? Or are you suggesting that having something in between just using real names and maintaining full separation between online and physical identities is useful?
The update I was suggesting was something like:
“In that post, it seemed like you were thinking of ‘keep identities secret’ as a rare thing some people might want to do’, and I think the framing of this post suggests something more like ’keeping identities secret is in fact a sensible default, and whether our culture nudges you towards or away from it is a pretty high level decision, and if you’re worried about LW as a whole being safe from political machines, it probably makes sense to default harder to anonymity.”