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nitrogen on July 25, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: When operating "at web scale", users often simply ...

Clearly you never used IRC. When I got started with computers, BBSes, etc., using your real name was considered a monumentally bad idea.

mike_esspe on July 25, 2011 [–]

I still don't understand why the fetish for the names from government ID originated. Was it because of Facebook's policy? I'd like to see this trend reversed.

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