>Personally I'm a big fan of encouraging the use of real identities for reputation management in online communities For me personally? I use my real name for

>Personally I'm a big fan of encouraging the use of real identities for reputation management in online communities For me personally? I use my real name for most things. It's convenient. And in a "cultural fit" world, well, I am a "cultural fit" for my profession, so why not run with it? Nearly everything I've done online in the last decade has been under my real name. That's the key, though. Being a 'cultural fit' means that the community is unlikely to have a problem with my personal life, and if they do, it's likely to be a minor sort of thing.