Google+: Your weird name makes Google nervous

My name is Karl Möller, but the world only knows me as Sausageman

YuccaTreePost offers a short but timely look at Google's opaque and irritating policy concerning the naming of one's profile in Google+ and it's effect on professional bloggers and other people whose pseudonyms have become their trademarks on the net. Basically, you may expect to lose access to your complete Google profile if you use a pseudonym and some jackass decides to denounce you, even if this pseudonym is well known in the blogosphere.

I personally think that the case for allowing pseudonyms is very strong, and preventing people from using them would be a step in the wrong direction. Apart from that I am afraid the company is scaring away new users of Google+ at a very critical time with their wavering on the issue. A clear and comprehensible policy would be most welcome.

In other news: You can now mute single users without throwing them out of your circles. This is an extension I've been waiting for since the whole Google+ thing started...