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The concept of having your "real identity" associated with comments is very similar to the recent issue with the gaming company Blizzard. There was an announcement a few months ago stating that a poster's full name would be displayed on the battle net forums (this was prior to the release of WoW Cataclysm and SC2).

There was an online petition and a massive cry of dissent from the users. There was even a moderator who tried to justify Blizzard's position by posting his real name and saying he "didn't care". Much of his personal life information was displayed and if I remember correctly he had to change his FaceBook account due to all the trolls.

Blizzard did not put this idea into effect.

Associating identities with views online can have massive repercussions regardless of how much "integrity" that person has. Trolls and stalkers would have an absolute field day due to the loss of anonymity.

And now, for some humor to wash down the pessimism, s/fb/blizzard or vice versa:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NgAkWxcPBE