Comment Re:Maybe "93 Escort Wagon" IS my real name... (Score 1) 264
i have a somewhat strange name and tried to make this point in email to NPR.org and ConsumerReports.org both of which require real names. Unless you require SS# as well, "real name" really has a disparate impact on people w/ more uncommon names.
My solution had been fairly easy. I won't even consider posting on a real-name site. And this doesn't even address the issue of how trivial it is to circumvent these by posting under a false name. So basically the only people you exclude are the ones (like myself) who are prudish enough to care about not breaking a EULA for which there's no penalty anyway.