[opensource-dev] display names = the end of 1.x viewers?

[Daniel Smith]

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Michael Schlenker
<schlenk at uni-oldenburg.de> wrote:
>
>
> How about a display option in the viewer that can 'highlight' the fact that your display name is the same as your username
> (different colour, font or an other UI hint).
> That would prevent many of the imposter issues, as it would be pretty obvious.
>
> Maybe an opt-out to deny the use of current usernames as display names would be appropriate, but a general ban to reuse a current username
> as a display name sounds a bit excessive.
>

I had written earlier about the reverse, make it an opt-in to allow
the use of a username as
a displayname by others.  Consider another opt-in feature that gets at
privacy: ability
to map someone.  I have to grant that to individuals.   That's the way
it should be.

The default situation should be "I have taken a moment to think about
the implications
of others using my username, and I trust them, and I am fine with
that, so I will
make the decision to turn it on".

I still have not heard a definitive answer as to what gets logged in
IM and Chat.
Forget the "display" for a moment.  What do you want to have logged as
"Michael Schlenker"
that you did not write?

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