Anonymous mod tools make online communities safer, but tying every mod action to a public username is worth the slowdown. I ran a 4,000-member hobby subreddit for two years, and our queue dropped from ~60 reports a day to 11 after we added a rule that any ban over 30 days gets logged with the mod's handle. It wasn't courage — it was friction. People posted less garbage when their name sat next to the decision. The trade-off is real though: a mod who moderates a domestic-violence support group could get doxxed for a correct call, and I'm not certain the transparency gain outweighs that risk in small, sensitive forums.