> Yak killed their own app overnight by taking the main feature that made it popular - the fact that it was anonymous - and making an about-face to suddenly require usernames
Well, they blocked the app on all US middle- and high-school campuses so it couldn't be used for bullying. But past that I wouldn't call it a rampant problem. If anything the anonymous factor prevented harassment within the app, because between posts you couldn't identify anyone, thus no one could really carry grudges or become "popular."
The main problems were the occasional bomb threat and the overall degenerate nature of some of the posts.
> If anything the anonymous factor prevented harassment within the app, because between posts you couldn't identify anyone, thus no one could really carry grudges or become "popular."
But you can say, "Jennie Ginger is a slut", and positively identify a real person in real life. Or you could just spout racist epithets.
I'm not sure why I'm positing hypotheticals, when harassment was an actual, ongoing problem:
Wasn't anonymous harassment a rampant problem?