[jpapadpapa]

I know what you are saying, but we are in somewhat of a unique situation because it is a local group of 250 that are moving over to a message board for communication. We have group events, etc., so most would not have a problem sharing their real names because it is very likely we will meet one another in person anyway. Also, most of the forums cannot be seen unless a person pays for membership. So, we are not really out to gain more members randomly off the internet.

The leaders have let me do mostly what I want with the forums, but this is a sticking point and I need a solution. Is there some way to force real names somewhere in the post automatically?

What I do on my site is have them fill out their First Name in a profile field and add that to their post info.

Does this add it to the post every time? I guess they do that on this site. Is that something that is easy to do? Maybe I'll see it when I go back in the Admin CP and play around. I want it to be full names and forced, though.