Discussion hosting service Disqus has crunched the numbers on their enormous database of comments and found that people writing under pseudonyms (as opposed to anonymously or under their real name) contribute substantially more comments than others, and those comments are rated more highly than others. People writing under a real name are a close second, and people writing anonymously are a distant third. Fascinating! →
Not a real surprise to me.. though I notice that some profiles of people who do use names are virtually devoid of profile information and I’ve noticed that people who start out using their real names will not infrequently switch to a pseudo-name or even anonymous.
Posted by Larry G on 21 January 2012 @ 7am
They made a mistake in their “Quality Signals” chart, so now I’m going to have to re-check their other charts… -.-
Posted by Tim McCormack on 21 January 2012 @ 9am
I noticed that, too, Tim! 61% and 51% are just as long on that chart, while 34% is 3/4 of the length of 61%.
Posted by Waldo Jaquith on 21 January 2012 @ 1pm
You get the best of both worlds, as nobody’s ever known a “Waldo Jaquith” before.
Posted by Brian on 22 January 2012 @ 12am
Makes sense to me.
Posted by I. Publius on 24 January 2012 @ 10pm
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