[Casseres]

There is no undo button when using your real name on the Internet.

With a nickname, you always have the option of associating it with your real identity at a later date if you so choose.

[DanBC]

Most people do a lousy job of keeping the names separate.

You can usually follow a chain of pseudonyms back through time to get to the early embarrassing posts.

Meatball wiki changed my mind about real name posting. First I thought "always use an obvious nym", then "always use a realistic, but false, name". Now I just post using me real name on a few places, and a bunch of nyms (realistic and otherwise) in other places.

My writing (especially my appalling use of punctuation) is distinctive. I think it'd be easy enough to tell if a post is mine or not by counting the weird commas.

Perhaps privacy advocates need some method of making writing more anonymous? Lower-case everything, convert full-stops to new lines, strip out all out punctuation?

[spindritf]

Yes, but most people's e-reputation has to withstand only the most cursory of google searches so using a nickname, even without air-tight OPSEC, is often enough.

[computer]

People should start choosing better nicknames! There's a reason I chose this one.

[mason240]

>My writing (especially my appalling use of punctuation) is distinctive. I think it'd be easy enough to tell if a post is mine or not by counting the weird commas.

It's very much an NP problem.