> The identity obsession is weird... People say the nastiest things online in their own name already, so this fairytale that things get better and nicer if the bots and nyms go away is just not very convincing

Eh, I think it's plausible that things would be less nasty if people had to use their own name.  But I also think it's plausible that we end up an Animal Farm / 1984 type situation in that world.

SimpleStacker

their interest was also piqued when I told them that the users on SN really love to hear about economics.  As a bunch of econ professors, we're not exactly used to hearing that

Agreed that size is a problem — not just for your paper. You can def observe weird-ish quirky behavior in such a small subset of peep. Esp when the reason they are here is already around an ideologically filtered devotion to, in this case, bitcoin.

The identity obsession is weird... People say the nastiest things online 

 already, so this fairytale that things get better and nicer if the bots and nyms go away is just not very convincing

econ

Research in Public #13: Internal Department Feedback

> their interest was also piqued when I told them that the users on SN really love to hear about economics.  As a bunch of econ professors, we're not exactly used to hearing that 

Lovely enough! Flattery always welcome. 

Agreed that size is a problem — not just for your paper. You can def observe weird-ish quirky behavior in such a small subset of peep. Esp when the reason they are here is already around an ideologically filtered devotion to, in this case, bitcoin.

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The identity obsession is weird... People say the nastiest things online _in their own name_ already, so this fairytale that things get better and nicer if the bots and nyms go away is just not very convincing