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@bq
Never mind my real name. I don't even use the same pseudonym for my all my online activity.
I would not join or post to a public forum that showed my real name. You do not know anyone else on there at first, and you need the buffer zone created by a pseudonym in case any of the other members turn out to be wrong-uns. There has been some very stalky behaviour by some people on this forum towards others, as well as threats of violence. Maybe the anonymity made that possible in the first place, but I think it probably prevented it from being worse.
Look at the cases of bullying via facebook to know that real identities plus fairly public access is not a good idea.