While understandable, this is in essence trolling. I.e making people reply to you as though you mean what you say, when actually you don't.
I've seen other comments here saying the same thing and it makes me wonder how prevalent this is here.
Exploratory discussion is (hopefully) done in good faith.
Allowing for rough corners and prickly spikes makes it possible to have more efficient and productive interactions. But only if participants act in good faith and put on their thick skin hat. Having to self-censor and shave of anything protruding is limiting and inefficient.
This is not an endorsement to misbehave.
That's not at all trolling, not even in essence.
Trolling is deliberately trying to anger someone in order to provoke them to respond, not trying different arguments to see if you can make it work to determine if that is what you really believe, or if you have a rational point of view.
While there certainly is a gray area there, which is clearly different for the two of us, I think discussion boards have been around long enough for a reasonable smell test.
As virtuous as being unmasked might seem, the risk/reward is skewed exponentially toward the negative. I think the stigma of anonymity is a fallacious aspersion, and that much of the communication we engage in suffers from prejudices rooted in reputation and pigeonholed identity. Let ideas stand alone, free of the baggage of misplaced suspicion and uncharitable bias.
Until or unless the asymmetric consequences are brought to parity, we're human... let that be enough.
However, important topics need to be discussed in a serious way. How do we do it without disturbing the peace? Anonymity is what works.
Lastly, it’s been a proven method of therapy. Confessional, things like support groups (AA), stuff like this is only possible because we honor this principle of concealment.
Blind app is literally a support group at the moment. Everyone there seems to be suffering from work stress. Compare each Blind post to the LinkedIn counter part, how can they be so different? The truth isn’t lining up, but I’m glad we get to see just how different the discourse becomes when your real life reputation is not constantly under threat.
Give people a chance to talk without having to look over their backs constantly.