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Yeah, now you need to be able to demonstrate verbal fluency. The problem is, that inherently means a loss of “trusted anonymous” communication, which is particularly damaging to the fiber of the internet.

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Precisely, in the age where it is very difficult to ascertain the type or quality of skills you are interacting with say in a patch review or otherwise you frankly have to "judge" someone and fallback to suspicion and full verification.

Yeah I think "trust for a fluent, seemingly logically coherent anonymous responder" pretty much captures it.

"A bit inconvenient" might be the understatement of the year. If information requires say, 2x the time to validate, the utility of the internet is halved.

Too bad that the language we use is also a demonstration of social status. If I think about it, it could have a somewhat corrosive effect on that glue that keeps society in shape.