From a linked article: According to a study by the KCC, malicious comments accounted for 13.9 percent of all messages posted on Internet threads in 2007 but decreased only 0.9 percentage points in 2008, a year after the regulation went into force.[1]
And from a glance at the CMU paper: Our findings suggest that the enhanced identification process shows significant effects on reducing uninhibited behaviors at the aggregate level, but there is no significant impact regarding a particular user’s behavioral shift.[2]
These actually indicate an improvement in general, and in fact the first reason listed in for scrapping the real-name registration was that it increased "cyber hacking" rather than the ineffectiveness of using real names.[1] I haven't read through the paper, but I'm interested in the contexts where changes occur. For example, if HN and reddit and YouTube all switched to real-name logins, which site would have the most improvement? Are sites that discuss primarily controversial topics more likely to resist improvements in comment quality after a switch to real-name login? (These are rhetorical.)
And from a glance at the CMU paper: Our findings suggest that the enhanced identification process shows significant effects on reducing uninhibited behaviors at the aggregate level, but there is no significant impact regarding a particular user’s behavioral shift.[2]
These actually indicate an improvement in general, and in fact the first reason listed in for scrapping the real-name registration was that it increased "cyber hacking" rather than the ineffectiveness of using real names.[1] I haven't read through the paper, but I'm interested in the contexts where changes occur. For example, if HN and reddit and YouTube all switched to real-name logins, which site would have the most improvement? Are sites that discuss primarily controversial topics more likely to resist improvements in comment quality after a switch to real-name login? (These are rhetorical.)
1: http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2011/12/30/2011...
2: http://www.computer.org/csdl/proceedings/hicss/2012/4525/00/...