posted 10 years ago
The irony here is that one of the primary reasons for the Naming Policy is to keep the crazies at bay.
By promoting professional personas we find that people behave more professionally. And that's very important to us, since one of the things that make us distinctive is that you can ask stupid questions without being flamed the way you often are on most forums that operate with obscured identities.
As for help, I don't think anyone is too unhappy with the help they get here, but many of us only respond to questions when the questioner has a valid display name. Fix the name and the lights go on.
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.