Here's what Newsweek magazine (9/27/13) has to say about folks who will not use their real names when posting to internet sites such as Patch:
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It’s obvious these days that there are more trolls populating the World Wide Web than there were in Middle Earth. But these aren’t the slightly comical brutes of Tolkien lore, they’re ... how shall we say this? Scumbags? Morons? Degenerate jerks? No, we won’t deign to use their kind of language. They are the writers of anonymous comments on almost any Internet post, whether it’s about Miss America or mitochondrial DNA, who do their best to be abusive and mostly succeed. Studies show, sadly, that this kind of language actually influences public perception of what’s in the original articles.
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Enough already! Use your real name or shut up, please.
