Online news comments are often confronted with issues of civility and inclusivity, which are sometimes pegged to the anonymity afforded to contributors in those spaces. In this work we study one form of anonymity in online comments that manifests as users changing their display name when they write a given comment. We undertake a predominantly quantitative analysis of how display names are chan...

We identify general trends in the (in)civility and complexity of political discussions occurring on Reddit between January 2007 and May 2017 – a period spanning both terms of Barack Obama’s presidency and the rst 100 days of Donald Trump’s presidency. We then investigate four factors that are frequently hypothesized as having contributed to the declining quality of American political discourse ...

By Marion Allen A central theme of President Bush’s inaugural address was the concern with decreasing levels of civility in our society. Whatever your political persuasion, I think you will agree that we see this in our everyday lives and can appreciate the significance for our country’s well being. I regret to say that this lack of common courtesy and sensitivity to the feelings of others is a...

Often amateurs are faced with limitations placed on the space available and the length of wire or number of wires that may be possible in a operational antenna at the shack. There is a particular class of homeowner that does not want to see a web of wires suspended between trees or supporting structures in neighboring property, or an unsightly tower adorned with multiple beam antennas in the ai...

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Abstract What should we think about ‘acts of conscience’, viz., cases where our personal judgments and public authority come into conflict such that principled resistance to the latter seems necessary? Philosophers mainly debate two issues: Accommodation Question , i.e., ‘When, if ever, accommodate claims conscience?’ Justification are justified in engaging acts conscience – why?’. By contrast,...