I've never seen any evidence of this being true. Only opinions on it. A quick google turned up an article on TC about contrary evidence however. http://techcr

I've never seen any evidence of this being true. Only opinions on it. A quick google turned up an article on TC about contrary evidence however. http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/29/surprisingly-good-evidence-that-real-name-policies-fail-to-improve-comments/ http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/29/surprisingly-good-evidence-... Real Name policies are obviously valuable in an advertising deck... I'm skeptical on whether the benefits translate to users.