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There is actually evidence as far as I remember which indicates that people using for Facebook commenting system behaves nicer because others can identify them.



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-...

Real Name policies are obviously valuable in an advertising deck... I'm skeptical on whether the benefits translate to users.


You might be right. I can't remember where I read about it. I do think it does have some impact.




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