Originally Posted by Crim 
We could add a requirement of submitting DNA before posting a forsale ad, and it wouldn't provide additional security to our users. I can understand why people would be pissed about getting ripped off. I can't understand why they blame the moderators however.
Exactly! So why do we have the real-name policy. It doesn't add any benefits.
Originally Posted by BenFenner However, to me it adds security because I can research the seller before I try to buy. With a name, I can see if they live where they claim to live, and have any other web presence corroborating their "story". A fake name would likely produce bogus results which is very telling in itself.
Real-name searches?!? Ben. There's more than one Ben Fenner. There's more than one person w/my name and probably everyone on this forum. Doing a search on someone's 'real-name' will not help and/or work very well. What would be better is having cross-referencing screen names from other forums if anything. If the seller can provide proof of other sells they have done than that would be a lot more useful. Trying to do research on someone's real name won't work very well(at all).
Is this you?
bebo.com - Profile from Ben Fenner
I'm not buying from someone who owns a CIVIC and lives in the UK! fail.
Oh wow! A Lawyer too!?!?!? First result:
Fredericks Peebles & Morgan LLP Attorneys - Ben Fenner
AND a dancer?!
Ben Fenner | Facebook
Wow Ben..you are a man of many trades...As a buyer I know now you like dancing, you are a lawyer in the USA that commutes to the UK and you drive a riced out Civic. Ya, that's going to help me buy something from you.
(rolls eyes for infinity)
We need to remove the real-name rule out of this. I'll accept all the other changes except this one. This is ridiculous. Stop trying to justify it because you know it doesn't make sense either.
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So why bother with putting names on the for sale ad? at least make it private (which I see in later posts you did) 
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