> Adding reputational cost has been tried, And works, sometimes - there's a non-small number of people who have posted terrible things under their real names a

> Adding reputational cost has been tried, And works, sometimes - there's a non-small number of people who have posted terrible things under their real names and suffered real-world consequences for it. It doesn't work often enough, however, to make it a real deterrent. > Don't you wonder why HN is such a nice place despite no full name policy? I dunno, it has its share of toxicity (but, really, no more than any other forum but also it's not a bastion of goodness either.)