I tend to be instinctively wary of the motives of those
who bullishly insist on demanding to know
other forum member's true identities....

You're misrepresenting me. For the third or fourth time (I forget), I know the rule and I work with it. I'm not demanding or insisting on anything. I'm suggesting something and I'm backing up my suggestion with argument. No need to go off on one just because you disagree. And why should you be so wary? Do the other guys in your band know your real name? Do you reckon that the other guys in U2 call yer man The Edge (or, if they're being familiar, just "The")? Do you sit around in the pub with a bunch of guys who you know by nicknames only? Blimey, that's what would make ME wary! And I didn't necessarily suggest even that nicknames should be disallowed. Just that your real name is in your profile for other members to see. Not the whole world, note. This thread is about making this a nicer place, sort of. Anonymity, one hundred percent, helps to make it nastier. That's just human nature at work. You see it all over the internet. Well, that and allowing unsigned people to post. That's just daft, is that.