Some advisors to the Climate CoLab suggested having people identified by their real names everywhere on the site, as a way to encourage members to stand more fully behind what they post. Real names now appear on the Members tab in the site's Community area, see https://www.climatecolab.org/web/guest/members . But for now, members' screen names show up when they write a proposal or post a comment, for example, see my screen name to the left of this comment. What if the CoLab began to use member's real names, instead of their screen names, everywhere they post content on the site? We welcome your thoughts! Robert Laubacher For the Climate CoLab Staff

I agree, real names are best. James

As you can probably see I am not a fan of real names. If you want to stir the pot and make people collaborate that would not do this in "real life" I think it is good if you can stay below the radar. Just imagine I'd have a bout of conscience and want to start to wreck my horrible day job here...

Climate Change Problems + Real Names = Better Solutions! Johnnie Buttram

Actually, displaying full names and email addresses is probably the reason for a dearth of proposals, voting, and comments in this years contests. Asking for a valid email address is fine. But until climate colab has a opt-in checkbox for the display of full names and email addresses, the type of skilled professionals of many disciplines that you want input from will not join. As we learn that online privacy is dead, especially in the United States, and that corporations, employers and politically motivated actors have access to every post you will ever make, few people will be interested in risking their careers collaborating on projects like this. Analytics using your online activity have now been proven to do better determining future job performance than a human interviewer. People are being targeted for thought crimes based on their online activities. A successful proposal might attract unwanted media attention or snarking from a well-paid anti-environment disinformation industry. The ClimateColab website was developed about at least five years ago and should be updated for modern privacy issues and opt-in for next years contests. I even thought twice before posting this comment or entering the contest because of privacy issues. I will be submitting a high-impact proposal in the next few days under a pseudonym, but otherwise fully in compliance with proper community behavior. Part of my proposal include crowdsourcing similar to ClimateColab, and a crowd-sourcing website has been completed but not yet released. I never even considered posting actual names or showing email addresses, but do require valid email address, or SSO sign-on(Google, Facebook, etc.), but only display two character initials in postings so all displayed postings will be fully anonymous to search engines and the public. I actually would appreciate removal of my ClimateColab account if using a psudonym is a problem before I waste additional time. Thank you.

I think the real name is more appropriate to have a record and identification. Despite the nicknames seem more funny and exciting attracting curious.

I agree with you, I think real names are best.

 

 

Yes, real names are best to identify people. I agree with this.

All must be real,even motivation if we want to succeed with climate changes fight.