Anyone who puts any money that they cannot walk away from (with a laugh) under control of someone they cannot ID and go after is a total dumb fuck in my opinion. Bitcoin's short history is replete with examples of why.
That's part of the reason I don't have a BTC-E or Bitstamp account. I value my document scans at about $10k so right there is plenty reason to avoid these two operators even if I could limit my losses by holding few funds with them.
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Everyone who provides any 'financial services' to the Bitcoin community should be pre-doxed IMHO. I wish someone would set up a service to do this. Most legitimate and responsible shops will dox themselves, but it would be of value to have someone proficient verify anyway.
I agree on some points but disagree on the others. I lost 14 Bitcoins to MTGox back when they started needing user's ID to comply with U.S AML regulations. I'm not legally allowed to submit my ID to uncleared businesses/locations, so my money just sat until my account's deletion. I value my Identity very highly, not because I plan to scam, but because I value my privacy, and do not want to be bothered unless I do something that merits being bothered. I believe BTC-E is entitled to the same rights. They are actually an illegal exchange in the eyes of the United States, as they don't collect user's information, and don't obey U.S AML Regulation. By giving out their ID, they would compromise the safety of their exchange from attempted seizure. I think the number one selling factor for BTC-E is that while anonymous and in Russia, they don't have to fear shut down by the U.S, who has not been kind to Bitcoin exchanges and services. Mt.Gox is open with their identies, and are a legal business entity, but they have had millions siezed from them by the U.S Gov, so I don't find Mt.Gox for example to be safer to use than BTC-E, on the contrary, I exclusively use BTC-E because of their history of good business practice and honesty and their privacy policy. BTC-E doesn't require anything identifying of you, I think now they require an email account for withdrawl verification, but no other information is gathered from you.
Back in 2012 BTC-E was hacked when someone managed to inject fake Liberty Reserve USD into the exchange, where the attackers bought and withdrew up over $10,000 worth of Bitcoins with fake USD. BTC-E fixed the situation and refunded everyone out of their own pockets, which at the time of $5 BTC was a whole lot of money. After that, they registered in my book as the most professional exchange out there, as exchanges that have been hacked don't have the best track record. They refunded months of exchange fees and work in order to keep their customers, and I think it did wonders for their business.
Satoshi earned our trust anonymously, there are a lot of people here who we trust without knowing who they are, and of course that trust has to be earned. Sometimes it ends up biting us, and I can't say for sure that BTC-E wont scam everyone down the road, but I trust BTC-E far more than any other exchange because the owners and developers have shown their trustworthy qualities through their actions. There are plenty of public figures that were not trustworthy. We all knew where Trendon Shavers (Pirateat40) lived, many Bitcoiners had met him personally, had his contact info, etc, and that didn't keep him from scamming everyone. So I don't see why not leave BTC-E anonymous until they have given us a reason to hunt them down.
Thats my personal opinion anyway, if they haven't earned your trust, don't use them.
And anyway, who cares what I think?
I had people offering me tens of Bitcoins to tell them to type :blacat: But I wouldn't do it! *kicks self in the butt* 
