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In reply to the discussion: Did you read all those crazy tweets from Biden this morning? [View all]nam78_two
(14,529 posts)It is true about Trump but more broadly about Facebook, Twitterverse. Those places thrive on smackdowns, soundbites and spectacles.
Apparently on 4chan people have handles which are strings of letters and numbers - in their case probably for malicious reasons as they are trolls. However, my premise is that (for some of us at least) solitude and complete privacy are essential for optimal brain function. It follows then that a sub-set of us could contribute more earnestly and provide a higher quality of engagement with greater anonymity and more freedom from the gaze of the other (something an exhibitionist like Trump could not grasp).
When the name change amnesty comes around I would like to have a username like 765-4198 which has no personality and is hard to remember. There is already a poster like that here. But then it would only work if there were a bunch of other actual DUers who also had handles like that : - /. That is a hint . Anyone in?
I don't suppose that would be a nuisance to the admins and mods with mir would it? I bet you could even get some asocial liberals to participate more since with a handle like that the poster goes unnoticed and only the ideas remain out there. Though I would imagine you would need 5-10 people for that to work. And I was a mod here years ago - disruptors are easy to identify.