There's no practical way to enforce accountability on the Web, but a little peer pressure could help. Let's start signing our real names to the comments we post. It would elevate the discourse.
This is what grateful looks like. Crosscut staffers (left to right) Kate Harloe (kneeling), Sherry Larsen-Holmes, Alyssa Campbell, Tamara Power-Drutis, Marissa Brent-Tookey, Joe Copeland, Mary Bruno...