When I think through all the different conversations I've had online that I almost certainly would have chosen not to have were they directly traceable to my re

When I think through all the different conversations I've had online that I almost certainly would have chosen not to have were they directly traceable to my real name it becomes brain dead obvious to me that a "Real Name" policy is going to strangle the life out of G+ as a medium for interesting conversations. Sure I'll be on there ... but what you will see will be strictly my professional persona - the lowest common denominator of what I can afford to expose publicly across all aspects of my life without offending anyone I know. It's weird to me that Google can't see that the answer to the problems they are trying to solve can be solved equally well with pseudonymous identities as they can with real identities. Hacker News and Reddit both implement systems that encourage respectful conversation through karma type systems which allow anyone to speak but everyone to easily see and understand the context of that speaker. That's all you need.