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14. I think bloggers/Twitter posters have done this, sort of

Wed Apr 13, 2016, 09:48 AM

Apr 2016

I seem to recall reading an article on DU about it.

A quick Google search shows:

IT HAPPENED TO ME: I Posed As A Man On Twitter And Nobody Called Me Fat or Threatened To Rape Me For Once
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/26/it-happened-to-me-i-posed_n_6946840.html

10 Creepy Lessons a Man Learned While Pretending to Be a Woman On the Internet
http://www.ryot.org/pretending-to-be-woman-on-internet/928466

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So, The Guardian did a study of comments left on its website... [View all] cyberswede Apr 2016 OP

Never read the comments on a news site, they are always terrible. Odin2005 Apr 2016 #1

I don't read them either cyberswede Apr 2016 #8

Interesting to take their quiz, since it's like being on a jury muriel_volestrangler Apr 2016 #2

I disagreed with them on that same comment cyberswede Apr 2016 #9

I can see there is a point where it becomes 'author abuse' muriel_volestrangler Apr 2016 #12

Good point cyberswede Apr 2016 #17

Yes, the safety of anonymity... cyberswede Apr 2016 #10

I always feel dirty when I go down there. bemildred Apr 2016 #11

I think bloggers/Twitter posters have done this, sort of cyberswede Apr 2016 #14

Read it - it was a good idea malaise Apr 2016 #5

Message auto-removed Name removed Apr 2016 #6

Being a vaguely left-of-center paper, Denzil_DC Apr 2016 #7

Yeah... cyberswede Apr 2016 #15

Ban anonymity for newspaper comment sections. alarimer Apr 2016 #13

Our local paper tied comments to Facebook profiles a while back cyberswede Apr 2016 #16