Post #2467114

Hey dash! Cool article on an issue worth writing about. Thank you for sharing your own work here. I have a question about something that surprised me: did you consider censoring user names of the people you used as examples of negative internet culture? From a perspective of journalistic best practice, I personally feel like this would have been better, mostly since you are making a point about general culture, not specific people. This became noticable to me with the reference to mastodon (less with reddit). Maybe because mastodon feels like more of a personal, less anonymous platform. Also, @f... (no thank you voyager, I won't tag him here, even if you autocomplete the handle) is more singled out. What I want to express is that I feel like that _not_ censoring names detracts from your point of 'online spaces are bad' to 'these people are bad'. This is especially true if the bad actor is a single person, as in the mastodon / 'shut up about instagram'-section. This is the case in addition to the risk of people reaching out to the posters in question to worsen their day.