We have no plans to ever remove anonymity from the site! Individual users can already choose whether or not to accept anonymous comments in their account, and, in the case of a community, account admins can choose whether or not to accept anonymous comments in their community. So someone who's the target of serious harassment can disable anonymous commenting and only participate in communitites that don't allow anonymous commenting -- they can take steps to protect themselves and to be reasonably free of further anonymous harassment. (Someone creating and using a different journal to work around a ban is a Terms of Service violation, and we've had processes for that for a decade.)
Under the existing system, someone who's the target of serious harassment and has banned the harasser from their journal can no longer participate in communities (or even, sometimes, comment in other people's journals), because their harasser can contact them in reply to any comment they make there and continue the harassment. That's happening now, a lot, and it means that the victim of harassment is having their use of the site seriously restricted. This change switches the direction of the consequences so that the harasser is the one who's having their use of the site restricted, in that they can no longer reply to their victim's posts and comments in a community they're both a part of.
I understand your concerns! I really do. I know the social patterns and style of communication is different in the Russian communities of the site. But we aren't going to make changes to this system until we see how it changes behaviors and what goes well and what goes wrong with it. We're absolutely not going to get into a situation where the answer to ongoing harassment is "contact the Terms of Service team every time they contact you" instead of "ban them and you'll never have to hear from them again", because I was there on LJ for that and it was terrible. We started DW to learn from our mistakes, and this is a (long-overdue) example of the kind of changes we meant by that.
The solution for your scenario of someone posting to a community and banning everyone who disagrees with them is for the admin of the community to say "don't do that". Admins of individual communities can say "if you have banned any member of this community from contacting you, you can't post in this community", and you're welcome to remove anyone who violates that rule from the community -- people who don't agree with those rules just won't participate in that particular community. But we aren't going to ever create a way for the admin of a community to override someone's security settings.
Re: Issue 2329
Under the existing system, someone who's the target of serious harassment and has banned the harasser from their journal can no longer participate in communities (or even, sometimes, comment in other people's journals), because their harasser can contact them in reply to any comment they make there and continue the harassment. That's happening now, a lot, and it means that the victim of harassment is having their use of the site seriously restricted. This change switches the direction of the consequences so that the harasser is the one who's having their use of the site restricted, in that they can no longer reply to their victim's posts and comments in a community they're both a part of.
I understand your concerns! I really do. I know the social patterns and style of communication is different in the Russian communities of the site. But we aren't going to make changes to this system until we see how it changes behaviors and what goes well and what goes wrong with it. We're absolutely not going to get into a situation where the answer to ongoing harassment is "contact the Terms of Service team every time they contact you" instead of "ban them and you'll never have to hear from them again", because I was there on LJ for that and it was terrible. We started DW to learn from our mistakes, and this is a (long-overdue) example of the kind of changes we meant by that.
The solution for your scenario of someone posting to a community and banning everyone who disagrees with them is for the admin of the community to say "don't do that". Admins of individual communities can say "if you have banned any member of this community from contacting you, you can't post in this community", and you're welcome to remove anyone who violates that rule from the community -- people who don't agree with those rules just won't participate in that particular community. But we aren't going to ever create a way for the admin of a community to override someone's security settings.