I’m old and crusty, and remember an internet without user accounts that were tied to a real name. This was the norm, and so it should be again.

Anyone could creep theough my posts and comments, and get a rough idea about me, but not accurate enough to identify me.

My online identity isn’t my real world identity. But I still care about my online identity and as such I don’t want to taint my name by being (that much of) an ass, and hopefully that should result in people associating my handle with (somewhat) reasonable input, the same way they do with my real name.