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

[mysticaldemina at xrgrid.com]

Seems like twitter has a pretty good solution.  Display names are unique.
And your login account isn't public so you have better security.  Default
your display name to your current SL name.  After that people can request
the name they want.  As far as scripts, chat, everything else, that use your
text version of your name, they all change on other systems and we get by.

 

Mystical

 

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[mailto:opensource-dev-bounces at lists.secondlife.com] On Behalf Of Daniel
Smith
Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 7:53 PM
To: Baloo Uriza; opensource-dev at lists.secondlife.com
Subject: Re: [opensource-dev] display names = the end of 1.x viewers?

 

 

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 3:28 PM, Baloo Uriza <baloo at ursamundi.org> wrote:

On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 10:15:14 -0700, Daniel Smith wrote:

> I'll ask the Lindens a direct question:
>
> What will you do to prevent others from using my username as their
> displayname?

I'm going to hazard to guess the answer is "nothing."  If anything, this
brings SL into better parity with the real world, where many people might
have the same name.





Thanks for playing.  Just sign up last week?  Based on the feedback here and
on the blog, so many people are upset about this very question that the
Lindens will pretty much have to address the issue.  The documentation trail
on this is a mile long.  If they do nothing, situations will occur that will
end up in court.  Bet on it.

4 year SL'er, Daniel

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Daniel Smith - Sonoma County, California
http://daniel.org/resume

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