[TorqueDog]

This isn't a question with a black and white answer, unfortunately.

One of the reasons most of us didn't sign up with our real names as our user names, use our own photos as our avatar, or refer to each other as our real names on the forum is because we value our privacy and will choose to divulge information where we deem it necessary.

On the flip side, there are people (Realtor 1 aka Travis Munroe) who will gladly divulge identity, occupation, etc. because it's in his best interests to for commercial reasons. As such, it's not a faux pas if we reply to posts by Realtor 1 as "Hey Travis, [insert rest of reply here]". However, if Travis went and signed up elsewhere anonymously and we knew it was him, it wouldn't be cool to just say "Oh yeah, Travis is actually 'poolboy23' on Forum X" just because he chooses to make his identity known elsewhere.