I spent the night there once, when arrested for a traffic violation. Twenty guys in a cell, one toilet. The bologna sandwiches are terrible.
It's directly connected to the court house. You emerge into the court rooms from an underground tunnel for arraignment. The transition from concrete dungeon to hard wood court room is pretty striking, and probably not without psychological intent.
I also spent three weeks performing jury duty there, and got to see defendants coming from the other direction, with at least a limited understanding for where some of them had just been.
For that to work, Facebook Auth would have to raise barriers against open, public identification, while acknowledging that the authenticated account is going to be disclosed to the site owner, which is a confusing layer of deflection.
I don't think the rational basis for the nuance of that negotiation would reach end users or site owners. Both would likely complain that it offers no assurance of safety, and remains a disappointing compromise.
The choice to adopt nuanced tactics in furtherance of rewarding communication requires nuanced personalities at the reigns.
It's kind of unfortunate that there's no easy way to scope the internet down to a smaller group of participants, for small time operations like local news sites.
Local news doesn't want to include audience participation from as far away as another time zone, or another state, but even then, geographic exclusions aren't an entirely correct exclusion criteria, since former residents of a local region may wish to participate from afar, because they still tune into home town news, after moving to new territory.
Real world names freeze out lots of participation, because taking ownership of an "incorrect" (contentious) opinion can have permanent consequences to one's reputation.
The real name and/or social credibility fix, is a blunt force trauma solution, to keep out obnoxious people, and isolate discourse to limited subgroups. But another problem is, even without being obnoxious, non-professional participants frequently go off-topic and off-script.
Pseudonyms almost certainly require painstaking, labor intensive moderation, and a skillful attention devoted to selectively ascribing relevance to conversation.
Most local operations just want to know there's an audience with a pulse, but providing that audience with a platform and a voice is another matter entirely.
I spent the night there once, when arrested for a traffic violation. Twenty guys in a cell, one toilet. The bologna sandwiches are terrible.
It's directly connected to the court house. You emerge into the court rooms from an underground tunnel for arraignment. The transition from concrete dungeon to hard wood court room is pretty striking, and probably not without psychological intent.
I also spent three weeks performing jury duty there, and got to see defendants coming from the other direction, with at least a limited understanding for where some of them had just been.
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