Personally I feel the good old days of NO anonymity, and the ever-present knowledge that if you’re abusive and nasty in real life, you’ll get a real life smack in the jaw, tended to keep things in check.
if your so keen on NO anonymity post your name address and telephone number for us all to see
You will probably notice that my nickname is my ham radio callsign.
This is not only because of sheer laziness, but because it is hard to create unique nicknames.
"Blue Wombat" for instance, sounds like a "CB handle", & some others sound pretentious.
Being a ham, my name & address are not at all hard to find, but over many years, no one who wishes me any harm has ever bothered to try.
I have pointed out in this forum before, that it is perilously easy to make deadly enemies on the Internet, just by questioninng their "take" on a subject.
Some forums are worse than others---mention "electron flow" on some "electronics" fora & the torches & pitchforks come out!
On things like Facebook, you are better off just avoiding those who sound like "the third drunk from the left" at the Pub, who consider it part of their "freedom of speech" to call people of some other group nasty names, & who, on the 'Net, unlike the Pub, have no fear of receiving "a punch in the nose" from a member of that group who takes umbrage.
Many such people have a distorted view of what was normal discourse in pre-Internet days, thinking that it was normal in society to throw abuse round.
We had a thing called "good manners", & it really did stop even total Arseholes from the worst excesses.
OK, things weren't all "Unicorns & Butterfies", but it was understood that certain comments belonged to "Down at the boozer with your mates", not publicly.
Even then, not too loud, or that "punch on the nose" might still have come your way.