[opensource-dev] Display names, again.

[Baloo Uriza]

On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 12:15:12 +0200, Marine Kelley wrote:

> The damage done to the reputation of a well known resident can be
> immeasurable. It would be irresponsible of LL to let someone impersonate
> someone else without giving any way to let the other people around to
> see CLEARLY the difference between a user name and a display name.

If you have watched Torley's video, you can see that you can clearly tell 
the difference between the display name and the avatar's real name.

> No
> amount of ToS waving and legal threatening is going to change that
> because once the damage is done, it is too late. It is CAPITAL that a
> display name CANNOT be mistaken with a user name, no matter how clever
> the owner of the display name is.

No amount of technology can overcome the ignorance of a sufficiently 
qualified moron.  Or, to put it another way, "you can't fix stupid."  
It's not even worth the effort to try to fix stupid.  Or to put that 
another way, "stupid is as stupid does."