Advantages:
* It's difficult to be prejudiced/biased against a poster because of who they are
* The focus is on the idea not the person who says it
* It is possible to say whatever opinion you like without repercussions
Disadvantages:
* It's easier for people to get away with contradictions
* It's easier for people to get away with for instance running away from the argument if they lose and then coming back in a different thread with the same opinions that were refuted earlier
* It's difficult to get to know a person. This means that one has to rely on the assumption of a shared culture to understand how that person thinks (not sure if this is true or not but it's an interesting idea)
* It is possible to speak in whatever tone you like without repercussions
The more anonymous the medium the more extreme the above points get.

Advantage:

• It's more comfy, in a small site you can just start participating right away without feeling like out of place.

*X-post: https://8ch.net/polpol/res/16564.html*

Problem with getting to know people better is that it harbors a disease that lingers through every single shitty internet forum... The circlejerk.

Relevant:
http://alistapart.com/article/identitymatters
http://archives.4-ch.net/net/kareha.pl/1144223460/l50

Also relevant:
http://wakaba.c3.cx/shii/shiichan

http://4-ch.net/net/kareha.pl/1218769539/l50

since admins and mods can generally(?) see some sort of identity (IP, hashed IP, internal ID on talkboards etc) could some post confirming/denying that anonymity makes people into dishonest hypocrites?

>>8
You can already see poster IDs on most of the boards (not DQN and maybe a few others though), which --- as far as your question goes --- amounts to the same as seeing IPs.

Pros:
You don't need to sign up!

>>9
but they don't work across threads or when a poster uses sage

Advantage:

• People spying on you can only identify you for the posts they have seen you write.

Disadvantage:

• People still treat anonymous boards the same way they do regular forums and try to gain seniority by arguing about who's been there longer, even though there is no way to actually tell and it doesn't matter.

One advantage of identity is that reputations could be damaged by committing logical fallacies or using dishonest arguments so there's an incentive to think about what you say and be honest. On the other hand though in some communities reputation could be damaged by simply expressing certain beliefs.

Everyone knows it's Matt Miller, deep down we all know.. https://bijou.4ct.org/deep_search/tinychan

>>14
Wow, you're a fag and your posts are retarded

https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19

>>6
Shii was right

>>23
Well, yes.

>>23
So he right he abandoned us forever.

I wonder where shii is today

>>27
facebook.com/averym

>>28
spyware link, no thanks.

Anonymous fagposting or actual fags posting. Pick your poison or go OFFLINE.(;ﾟДﾟ)