ChristianKl comments on Rationality Quotes Thread June 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ChristianKl 29 August 2015 12:17:12AM 0 points [-]

In the early days of Facebook you needed to have a university address to make an account. Most university students don't have fake email addresses under different names in the domain of their university.

In most cases Google+ didn't do anything to verify that an account holder used their real name. They just filtered for things that looked like real names.

Comment author: lmm 31 August 2015 10:52:07PM 0 points [-]

They didn't check your name against your email. You needed a university email but you could, and people did, use a fake name with it, even an obviously fake one.