Youtube can feel free to go do that. It will kill their membership. You can also bet the real reason for it is so it is easier for things like the MPAA and RIAA to track users and it has nothing to do with trolling.
It won't kill their membership. And I disagree completely, I think it has much more to do with legal covering of asses. ESPN has done it. Huffington Post announced they will be doing it. More and more big companies will do it, companies who have nothing to do with the MPAA or RIAA.
It is an unwise move on their point. An unpopular law has force behind it. An unpopular rule has no force behind it and as people move away so will popularity because youtube users are all about the views. They need to recognize the trolls and the popular live in a symbiotic social relationship. Without the controversy their stuff simply will not be popular. They need trolls.
No, YouTube doesn't need trolls. That's simply false.
No, the whiny little turds who cannot get that someone saying something bad about you on the internet is not the end of the world. Seriously, do you think it is really healthy to hold the opinions of some jerkoff you will never meet in such high regard that it drastically effects your happiness and causes you to think of offing yourself? That is a psychological disorder, and you are not helping the person by pretending that sort of thing is normal. They need some help to stop taking BS so seriously before they kill themselves because there is far worse than some troll on the internet you will have to deal with in your life. The day trolls become the biggest problem in the world will be a great day for this planet.
No, it's not healthy. But it's still a fact that people do. You're telling me you're okay with people being harrassed and bullied to the point of suicidal contemplations just so you can post about My Little Pony anonymously?
No, it means for those kids who are so dysfunctional that they would kill themselves over some words on a screen from a person who should effect their life in absolutely no way whatsoever we need to get some help and not pretend it is the problem of the trolls. That is being way too oversensitive. That is a major breakdown of self perception and self esteem, and the troll did not cause that.
The troll is not "causing" it, but rather contributing to it.
You can insult me all day long and call me any name you want, and simply it comes down to you do not like me.
But we're not talking about you. That's the point. We're talking about others, children even. I agree with your premise children should be stronger and should have been mental toughness, but many of them simply don't. It seems incredibly calloused to me to simply say, "Well, you should have been stronger, then you wouldn't have died".
The reality is i cannot suck it up for my boss.
But you can suck it up in other ways. Don't post on YouTube. Don't post about My Little Pony. Find another website to do so.
If you're as tough as you're leading me to believe, I would not think putting your name besides your words would be that big of a problem. Either you would or you wouldn't, and if you wouldn't on YouTube, you may some place else. It's awfully convenient for you to tell others to suck it up when you seem unwilling to do so yourself.
if someone on the internet is bothering me i can suck it up and find a better part of life to live.
But you're not sucking it up. YouTube is bothering you and you're complaining about it here. And you're complaining because YouTube is instituting policies which are likely being done for legal reasons, but also for reasons why may save a child's life. I'm sorry, I just do not have much sympathy for someone who wants others to suck it up and then complains because they are not getting their way.
The reality is when youtube does this there are a couple of scenarios that may happen. the first is they require everyone to put their real name there to hold people accountable. This will kill youtube and something else will pop up in it's place.
No more so than a lawsuit alleging YouTube allowed harassment to take place.
It will be twice as bad because they will get people for piracy also and no one will be left there.
....I'm supposed to feel bad for people who can no longer break the law by pirating content?
Youtube knows this and i would be amazed if they risked it for some wussies.
Your cavalier attitude towards child suicide is rather disturbing to me.
This is part of the world. get used to it.
So is putting your name besides your words and actions. Get used to it.
It is neccessary for you to feel rightious that you have an evil to fight against.
What am I feeling "righteous" about? I'm simply saying there are many good reasons for YouTube to require real names. You're throwing a fit because your boss might find out you like a children's TV show which was originally intended for little girls.
People like you exist because people like I do
No. People like me exist because we believe in caring for people. People like me exist because we don't want to see a child, during the most confusing times of their lives, being bullied to the point where they feel so tormented by others they take their own life. People like me exist because we have a heart and we care.
I don't know why you exist. It's none of my business why you exist. But if you exist simply to throw tantrums that you cannot anonymously discuss little girl's TV shows if it means saving a child's life, then I simply do not know what to say.
Some people win, some people lose, sometimes you will be on both sides of that. The harder you fight, the harder they will fight. If you do not fight the other side will run you over. That is reality, and that is the internet.
I guess it's necessary for you to feel righteous that you have an evil to fight against.
The losing of the job is not the problem. It is the attack on who you are as a person and the prejudice and problems you face over BS
Oh...so the attack on YOUR person is unacceptable. The attack on other people is a case of other people needing to quit being a wussy. Got it.
Now I can deal with that.
Not very well, it seems.
Since you are allowing the bullies at a job to exist and playing pretend they are not there. yes, you are playing pretend they are not there. if you do not believe me go in tomorrow and tell them you are gay or transgendered.
I'm not gay, everyone knows that. Going in and lying would not make me a good person. But we do have an openly gay man where I work. And he's been there for years.
You will find out very quick who the bullies at work are.
I'm an adult. Many of the people dealing with this are not.
Now what you are saying is that you are going to send this thin skinned little whiner into the world and hide the reality that mean people exist, and they are going to get into a job and be forced to work around one of these people who is going to actually be present in their face, and effect their livelihood. You are telling me that I am wrong for telling that person to buck up and find some way to deal with the reality that you will face bullies in your life and you need to appreciate and be strong in yourself and not take their opinions to heart because they do not care for you. Then you are going to send that defenseless person out with the **** on the streets? We do have something in common, we are both sadists.
No, I'm telling you your desire to discuss a little girl's TV show in anonymity should never trump a child's life. I don't mind you helping them understand the world can be mean. But for you to be okay with these children killing themselves just so you can post hurtful comments anonymously is something I could not and will not agree with.
There are causes for concern with a real name policy. I totally agree with that. What I'm saying is there are also legitimate causes for concern with anonymity. And for you to be so careless of what happens to others is rather disturbing to me.