# On Anonymity, Accountability, and Respectful Debate **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous\ **Created:** [November 25, 2025, 9:59pm UTC](https://forum.polkadot.network/t/on-anonymity-accountability-and-respectful-debate/16062 "2025-11-25T21:59:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 5
**Author:** ![josep](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forum.polkadot.network/josep/32/2619_2.png) [@josep](https://forum.polkadot.network/u/josep)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2025, 9:29am UTC](https://forum.polkadot.network/t/on-anonymity-accountability-and-respectful-debate/16062/5 "2025-11-26T09:29:41Z")
> [@cpiccard](#): > > A lot of people in this forum are involved with WF3, Parity, or are working on treasury-funded initiatives. Many of them genuinely put a huge amount of effort into the ecosystem, You do realize that I’m one of those people, right? Do you see me going around scared of criticizing either [Parity](https://forum.polkadot.network/t/can-pallet-revive-help-improve-polkadots-ux/12923/19) or [the W3F](https://x.com/Joseptec/status/1959310575046955050)? This is exactly my point: if you add value, real value, you’ve earned the right to speak your mind. You should still be accountable for your words, of course. But you don’t need to hide behind a bunch of disposable alt accounts. It’s obvious the people behind those alts have been around this ecosystem for a while. It’s also obvious, at least to me, that they’re a bunch of parasites trying to earn points with the new OpenGov rulers by running coordinated smear campaigns. They don’t use alts because they’re “afraid of consequences”; they use alts because wasting everyone’s time and energy is the only thing they know how to do with their pathetic lives. Here’s the thing: if you add value then you shouldn’t be afraid of speaking your mind, even if you’re wrong sometimes. The work you’ve done should give you enough backbone to stand behind your own name. If, on the other hand, this ecosystem has become so rotten that it punishes people who speak their minds _despite_ them adding real value (which I fear it’s starting to happen), then we’re doomed anyway. So the least we can do is try and not cower behind sock puppets. > [@cpiccard](#): > > Sadly the post from @Mark65 which addressed accountability although in a blunt direct way, just vanished. “Sadly” nothing. The actual motivation of that post was not to “address accountability”. It was to engineer exactly what happened: people like you publicly speculating that the author was @tien, which is obviously false. That was the real goal. And you either **fell** for it, or you’re part of this little organized cluster. I’m honestly not sure which is worse. > [@Mark65](#): > > Look, it seems like what’s really going on here is an attempt to silence legitimate discussion, not to protect it. Nah, you coward. What’s really going on here is me telling you: **own your words**. > [@Mark65](#): > > You’re telling me that we shouldn’t be able to express our concerns, whether directly or indirectly, about anything related to Polkadot and the ecosystem? No. I’m saying something much simpler: people should know that your account is controlled by the same parasites behind @salty_carbonara and @ButteryBolognaise. That’s it. As long as that point is clear, I’m good. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.polkadot.network/t/on-anonymity-accountability-and-respectful-debate/16062)._