Discussion tends to be more civil when participants can’t be anonymous.
Then an entire class of trolling stops becoming scalable.
Then an entire class of trolling stops becoming scalable.
I'd think we're not utilizing all of our social faculties we otherwise would in a face-to-face conversation. We don't see a human in front of us so our brains aren't "firing on all cylinders". E.g. being polite, assuming good-faith, tempering negative impulses and all of the other social lubricant that normally allows humans to peacefully coexist in a society.