You’re projecting your experiences onto everyone else.

In fairness, you are doing this right now.

I don’t support mandating ID for anything. But you are not the only person in the world. Just because you have no need of it, doesn’t mean no one does. Not everyone uses the internet the same way you do.

You are free to create websites that function this way, or participate in websites that function this way, but don't push it on the rest of the internet.

“Only join forums where you personally know the people there” is not a scalable solution to this problem.

Sure it is. We didnt all know each other personally when we started, and people are welcome to join anytime. We just can figure out pretty quickly who is real and who is not because we meet each other. So what problem?

Not everyone uses the internet the same way you do.

Of course not, because they are either idiots, or never learned the basics. This is internet 101.

1. Everyone is a liar.
2. Everyone is anonymous
3. Because of rule 2, see rule one.

You are commenting in a privacy forum. I quite likely am talking to a bot, or you are talking to a bot right? So don't listen to me, BUT: no matter how hard you try, making any system that requires any kind of verification on an internet wide scale WILL be abused.

Use the internet as intended and the problem goes away.

Edit: also, even if you filter the bots, the issues remain because in many ways people are just as bad. Misleading, argumentative, liars, agendas, half truths, etc. So it doesnt really matter.