This could be easily accomplished by simply putting an end to online anonymity - a trend that hasn't quite arrived yet. [...] Online anonymity is just a leftover from the early days of the web - a time when there really just weren't other options. You just created a handle, set up an account, and began to write. Now that we have the tools to identify each other, shouldn't we begin to use them? Think of all the problems it would solve[...]
This sounds a bit like throwing the baby out with the bathwater. There's a lot of talk of "the problems it would solve", but what would the costs be?