A few years ago I decided to phase out my pseudonymous Alec Schueler username and begin using my painfully common real name (John Hill) on certain websites. Quo

A few years ago I decided to phase out my pseudonymous Alec Schueler username and begin using my painfully common real name (John Hill) on certain websites. Quora in particular refused to accept it, and asked me to prove that this was in fact a real name. Instead, I decided to add them to my host file and haven't used their services in the 3 years since. I had a pretty strong emotional reaction to this policy. I can imagine it would be pretty distressing to run into this problem as e.g. a Native American or transgender person.