Many people feel intimidated by using their real names. The real names rules should be more flexible in Citizendium. They will lose users because the current rule. By the way, many people do not like their real names. Why will they use it? If artists, photographers, writers, actors may use pseudonymous. Why not Citizendium users? I agree that users should show their names to avoid vandalism and trooling, but not as usernames. Maybe the real name in the authors/editors page would be sufficient. I myself would fell intimitade to see my name lots of times in the recent changes. It would be much better if we could use only our first or last name as usernames or even initials and write our real names only in our personal pages.
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Many people feel intimidated by using their real names. The real names rules should be more flexible in Citizendium. They will lose users because the current rule. By the way, many people do not like their real names. Why will they use it? If artists, photographers, writers, actors may use pseudonymous. Why not Citizendium users? I agree that users should show their names to avoid vandalism and trooling, but not as usernames. Maybe the real name in the authors/editors page would be sufficient. I myself would fell intimitade to see my name lots of times in the recent changes. It would be much better if we could use only our first or last name as usernames or even initials and write our real names only in our personal pages.