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>>pg+(OP)
We could penalize commenters not using their real name.

Techcrunch comment quality has improved by an order of magnitude and trolls have been largely wiped out since they started requiring people use Facebook or Yahoo accounts to comment.

>>ig1+j7
I'm considering that, possibly without disclosing on the site who the user is; just having to authenticate oneself at all would probably help.

>>pg+Sj
I value my privacy. If I was required to use my real name here, I'd wish HN good luck and move somewhere else.

>>gnosis+Rv
That's why I used the term "penalize", rather than "require". We could for example give comments from named users a higher default score.