Linus Torvalds: "Anonymity is overrated"

Can you give any examples?

wtf i hate linus now

Hacker news for one, it's explicitly in their rules to argue in good faith and assume the best interpretation of the other person's arguments. And some people use their real names/professional identities

Other examples would be technical news groups and mailing lists.

its a lot better than reddit, especially on sensitive subjects. Its a whole metric fuckton better than IRL or facebook.

>Linus Torvalds
who?

>its a lot better than reddit,
It isn't though. Especially for depth of discussion.

The only reason HN succeeds is that it has decent moderation. As in, they don't do ideological bans, you'll only get banned for disruptive faggotry.

Sounds good.

Namecalling, adhominems, samefag calling, spreading actual misinformation are all too present here. Then there is the bravado attitude where people are always overconfident and extreme in their claims because if they make big mistake they can just casually leave the thread, and non-extreme arguments don't get the (you)s needed.

Everything Linus Torvalds said is right because he singlehanded made Linux.