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Yeah, now you need to be able to demonstrate verbal fluency. The problem is, that inherently means a loss of “trusted anonymous” communication, which is particularly damaging to the fiber of the internet.


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Precisely, in the age where it is very difficult to ascertain the type or quality of skills you are interacting with say in a patch review or otherwise you frankly have to "judge" someone and fallback to suspicion and full verification.


Yeah I think "trust for a fluent, seemingly logically coherent anonymous responder" pretty much captures it.




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