{"id":5420,"date":"2019-08-15T17:35:46","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T17:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/2019\/08\/15\/a-partial-solution-to-online-trolling\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T21:45:25","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T21:45:25","slug":"a-partial-solution-to-online-trolling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/?p=5420","title":{"rendered":"A partial solution to online trolling?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, online trolling and abuse have been in the news a\u00a0<em>lot<\/em>. And a lot of people (including <a href=&quot;http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/posteverything\/wp\/2014\/11\/11\/anonymous-trolls-are-destroying-online-games-heres-how-to-stop-them\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wil Wheaton<\/a>) have pointed out that anonymity, and thus lack of accountability, are a major part of the problem.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, there are truly good reasons for some people to stay anonymous. So how do we reconcile those?<\/p>\n<p>Well, I&#8217;ve had a thought.<\/p>\n<p>Lots of online games have PvP (Player vs. Player) and non-PvP servers. The user has a choice.<\/p>\n<p>Why not offer Anonymous and Non-Anonymous servers?<\/p>\n<p>Nobody who wants to stay anonymous is required to give up that right. But those who\u00a0<em>choose<\/em> to can offer up their own true identity, for the right to play only alongside others who were willing to do the same.<\/p>\n<p>I guaran-damn-tee you there would be enough takers to make it worthwhile.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, that only solves the issues in gaming, not forums or social media or the like. But it&#8217;s a start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, online trolling and abuse have been in the news a\u00a0lot. And a lot of people (including Wil Wheaton) have pointed out that anonymity, and thus lack of accountability, are a major part of the problem. At the same time, there are truly good reasons for some people to stay anonymous. So how do we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5420","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-old-news","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}