> If anything the anonymous factor prevented harassment within the app, because between posts you couldn't identify anyone, thus no one could really carry grudges or become "popular."
But you can say, "Jennie Ginger is a slut", and positively identify a real person in real life. Or you could just spout racist epithets.
I'm not sure why I'm positing hypotheticals, when harassment was an actual, ongoing problem:
> If anything the anonymous factor prevented harassment within the app, because between posts you couldn't identify anyone, thus no one could really carry grudges or become "popular."
But you can say, "Jennie Ginger is a slut", and positively identify a real person in real life. Or you could just spout racist epithets.
I'm not sure why I'm positing hypotheticals, when harassment was an actual, ongoing problem:
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/09/technology/popular-yik-ya...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/yik-yak-harassment_us_56...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2014/10...
http://money.cnn.com/2015/05/07/technology/yik-yak-universit... - sorry, auto-playing video (fuck you, CNN).
This article is weird; I can't tell if it's blaming the victims, or the colleges, or the institution of college altogether: http://www.slate.com/articles/life/education/2015/10/yik_yak...