You know, they could just explicitly ask people to use their real names ("We recommend you use your real name" or something similar). If all the first few user

You know, they could just explicitly ask people to use their real names ("We recommend you use your real name" or something similar). If all the first few users do this it might catch on. Works on MathOverflow, though admittedly that probably has as much to do with the content of the site itself as the recommendation. But prohibiting pseudonymy on the internet is just stupid.