For long time reputation board was a bit quite and now it seems to have some life again with this new directions of name changing. Lately I have noticed a lot of the users to do that and as long as the admin is okay with it then I see no problem here. I really do not see any need for discussions too. If those users want privacy then let them have it. Some of them earned the respect from the community for sure.
I too wouldn't mind having more privacy, but once it's gone, there's no way to get it back.
Actually we can. Just stop talking about it and let the topic to be buried under tons of topics we have in the board. Not everyone is LoyceV or other guys who are good at analysing data. Not talking about it anymore at-least will give a semi privacy for those users. Let them enjoy it at-least.
Everyone has their reasons and we should be okay with it instead of pointing out our fingers on them.