Real names vs pseudonyms online
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With an account, you can revise, criticize, and comment on ideas.@dennis-hackethal* Please share your reasoning for your request that Veritula users use their true names.
Another reason I want people to use their true names is that I want Veritula to be a place for serious intellectuals, not yet another social network where people just screw around. Part of being a serious intellectual is public advocacy of one’s ideas and public updates on changed positions.
See #4071: if a trusted member vouches for them, I can infer they’re not here to screw around.
But that doesn’t address the part about public advocacy of one’s ideas and public updates on changed positions in the sense that you put your own name behind your ideas.
People could use Veritula to establish that intellectual presence and put their name (real or not) behind their ideas.