This debate happened a year or two back - urging Tyler (Leaf) to enforce showing your identity. A number of people left even at the prospect of such a thing.

I've never been anonymous here, but I strongly support the option for those who need to be. Agencies are - have been and probably will continue to be - vindictive and close people's accounts when they don't like what a contributor is saying. Some people do not want it known they contribute to microstock sites (some macro agencies don't approve). Some people are concerned about copycats. There are probably other legitimate reasons to remain anonymous.

Spotting trolls isn't hard, even with anonymity. People who recently joined and start lecturing about how to do things in microstock are easily ignored too ("teaching your grandmother to suck eggs" is the phrase I grew up with to describe this)

The hardest part of anonymity is that you can't judge any comments about portfolio performance over time when you don't know if the person has 200 files or 20,000 and whether they've been doing this for a decade or 18 months. That seems like an OK price for keeping a broad range of people able to participate here.