>>2775896>>2775890There's trolling, there's senseless mobbing and flaming, but that happens in other online communities too. Trolls don't care about ruining their fake internet name, because they can make themselves another one.
The difference is cases where people do fear ruining their fake internet name, and that's when good discussion is concerned. Once you have your own established identity and you're talking to someone who has another established identity, you will start acting under the effects of social pressure. Unless you're brutally honest by nature, you'll find yourself not taking the discussion as far as you like.
The closest thing I know to good anonymous discussions is drunken disucssions with good friends, where we're all uninhibited and comfortable with each other.
>>27759044chan is smaller than you think when it comes to namefags (like you) or tripfags (like Mario or Moorveert's Activated Semen). There may be thousands of posters, but tripfags and namefags stick out. Those who post consistently are known and remembered, especially if they're quality posters or skilled trolls.
Also, knowing who you're talking to is mostly irrelevant if you think about it. You say something, you get responses, you respond to those responses and so on. The lack of reliable past references to what a person has said means that you don't get as much social baggage in the discussion and cultivatea lot less unnecessary drama.
In cases where the discusison is asymmetric, like when a person tells a story or shares some sort of knowledge with the rest, names and trips are encouraged because there's actually a purpose.