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Great point - the implied equivalance between posting on the internet with a real name and having a real-world conversation is wrong. Posting on an archived system available to everyone is more like writing an editorial or giving a speech, something which many are uncomfortable with.

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...Those sound just like the kind of person that they should want using their service. If you're unhappy with something being attributed to you years later then you're probably writing crap.

(I do think that people might just pick 'real sounding' names though. They should try to make this the exception though...)

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