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masklinn on July 29, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Surprisingly Good Evidence That Real Name Policies...

> YouTube has joined a growing list of social media companies who think that forcing users to use their real names will make comment sections less of a trolling wasteland

Do they?

_delirium on July 29, 2012 [–]

I agree that that's probably not YouTube's main goal. They rolled out the real-names policy at the same time for video uploads, which I think is probably really what they want to tie to real names.

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