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This isn't really too surprising; this is the kind of problem you have when you try to automatically enforce real name policies. When you try to create a system which separates real names from made up ones, it's a lot harder when real names can have common English words which aren't ordinarily found in names.

Google+ had similar problems, if I remember right, and they ultimately solved the problem by getting rid of the real name policy entirely.



Do people not realize that _all_ names are "made up" by someone?




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