Why should your personal standards be determined by other people? You have complete control over what you say online, there's no reason to compromise your personal integrity.
>I spent too much of my life learning to do things by following rules, up to and including a PhD and an MBA. I've since learned to love learning by doing and diving in.
I'm really interested to know how you transitioned. I'm a recent graduate and I'm planning to pursue a graduate degree, and I'm overly concerned with rules, which provide structure but also seem to constrict my learning and work.
Screen space is more limited than space in the physical world. If I want to open an PDF next to my editor, I need to make them both share the screen, as opposed to making the editor full screen or having it share space with a web browser or other application.