[jasonkester]

For what it's worth, take a quick spin through the top voted commenters here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders

Notice that the entire top 10 are using their real name or a trivial abbreviation thereof (apart from 3 accounts that got there through story submission and have essentially no comment history).

Notice the top 30 or so, where real names clearly dominate, with a few well-known strong pseudonyms in there.

Smart, interesting people with nothing to hide, offering good advice and participating in good discussions. That's what this site is best at. And that's the sort of thing one doesn't generally need to hide behind a fake screen name to participate in.

At least, that's why I only have this one real-name account here.