Display Names Project Viewer Now Available

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so anyone can use my name, but still be themself,what about if someone own me money and they paid a person with a name like mine?

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Pop quiz:

Does the above constitute "positive feedback"?

No?

Will we still get this feature?

Yes?

Do any Lindens spend nearly as much time on the grid as the average resident?

No?

Who out of the residents and LL is in the best position to gage what is needed?

The residents?

Is this feature being bulldozed through because it is forms part of some future system?

Most likely?

Will that system do us or LL the biggest favor?

LL?

If the customers of any business are displeased with the service they are getting, do they typically continue their patronage?

No?

Why are more residents not leaving?

Because there is nowhere else to go?

Is this the reason why so often the residents opinions and requests are ignored?

Yes?

Isn't monopoly fun?

Bags! I'm the little hat!

Not the game, bozo!

Ah...

Would jelly be so popular if it didn't wobble?

Huh?

Burble burble burble?

Blah?

Yadder yadder yadder?

Sheesh!

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You don't...you can just hover the mouse over them without even clicking anything

Hovering your cursor over a point on the screen vs. clicking on that point. Big deal. Its still an unnecessary interruption of the flow.

In the time I have to wait for the inspector to load I can usually bring up 2 or 3 profiles anyway.

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Adam-

If you have enabled "Plain-text Chat" .. then yes, you must click on the name to bring up a "mini-profile" window to see their username.

In "enhanced viewer2 let's waste an extra line every time someone new says something" chat mode... mousing-over the name works fine. =)

The point is... people must understand the difference between display names and usernames... and know to look for username before trusting someone with a payment or abuse reporting them. And I think we've all run into more than a few people who will obviously be struggling with this concept.

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Adam-

If you have enabled "Plain-text Chat" .. then yes, you must click on the name to bring up a "mini-profile" window to see their username.

In "enhanced viewer2 let's waste an extra line every time someone new says something" chat mode... mousing-over the name works fine. =)

99.9999999999% of the work involved in clicking involves moving the mouse to the point you want to click. I realize that "mouse-over" is sufficient. I just fail to see the difference between "mouse-over" and "click".

The point is... people must understand the difference between display names and usernames... and know to look for username before trusting someone with a payment or abuse reporting them. And I think we've all run into more than a few people who will obviously be struggling with this concept.

It isn't a matter of struggling with the concept. Its going to be an easy extra step to verify, and thats fine. Most everyone will get it after a while.

But the point really is that that extra step, while easy to undertake, is an unnecessary interruption to the flow of communication and working in SL. We shouldn't have to verify. We should just know.

And the system shouldn't have to rely on people knowing that they need to verify either. Some people won't get it, or they will after a problem arises. Not good enough.

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So then what exactly is stopping you from going to preferences and displaying usernames in tags.

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"So then what exactly is stopping you from going to preferences and displaying usernames in tags." -- Werewolf Wonder

(not addressed at me, but I'll answer anyway).

The "Show Username" preference option only affects the nametag over an avatar's head.

It does not change GroupChat, LocalChat or Friends List.

Strangely enough... in beta... PrivateIM Chat comes in as "User Name: message.." not "Display Name: message...." if the user is has plain-text chat enabled. But that's beside the point.

The point I keep making over and over is that the option should be ON by default, so that people that are too lazy to follow the announcements coming out of Linden Lab will notice that "hey! Something is different.. what's going on?" ... instead of seeing a name and assuming it's a Username without looking further.

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So then what exactly is stopping you from going to preferences and displaying usernames in tags.

Stopping ME? Nothing. But:

a) I shouldn't need to.

b) Not everyone will (this isn't just about me. I will turn display names off, but I am concerned for the grid as a whole here). Newer users likely won't even know they can for a while. Not everyone reads the blogs or watches Torley's videos. Others will take advantage of the feature and not realize they should verify.

c) You can't hide display names, and usernames, when displayed, are in pretty small font. Nice, but not enough.

d) Making tags larger by displaying both is unnecessary screen clutter.

e) Call it personal preference, but the tried and true "first name, space, last name" is what I'd like to see kept. name.name just doesn't work for me. Not to mention that username, avatar name and display name is overkill.

f) New users who do not pick a last name will ALL be seen as name.resident to those who display user names. Come on!

g) As Jopsy just pointed out, the preference only effects tags.

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"f) New users who do not pick a last name will ALL be seen as name.resident to those who display user names. Come on!" -- Adam Spark

... I'm not sure that's actually correct...

Take a 'new' account: egbert123

llGetUsername(key) will return "egbert123",

llKey2Name(key) will return, probably: "Egbert123 Resident"

llGetDisplayname(key), would return something like "Mr. Egbert Wuntothree"

The Nametag should be:

Mr. Egbert Wuntothree

egbert123

The "Resident" part is just added in for the old LSL name lookup functions to guarantee that the result is two words separated by a space. At least that's my take on it... I could be way off.

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"f) New users who do not pick a last name will ALL be seen as name.resident to those who display user names. Come on!" -- Adam Spark
...  I'm not sure that's actually correct...
Take a 'new' account:   egbert123
llGetUsername(key) will return "egbert123", llKey2Name(key) will return, probably: "Egbert123 Resident"
Nametag should be:  
Mr. Egbert Wuntothree
egbert123

Actually I think we are both wrong. It appears that if a single name is chosen, that will be the username and default display. But for backwards compatibilty purposes (unsupported viewers and scripting calls), however, .resident will be added to those names. Taken from the faq:

Let's say someone joins Second Life and chooses the username of johnsmith123, assuming that no one else in Second Life has that username. Then, when he logs in, his username will continue to be johnsmith123, and his Display Name will default to johnsmith123. Of course, he is then welcome to change his Display Name immediately in the My Profile sidebar tab of Viewer 2.

As mentioned elsewhere in this FAQ, under certain conditions for backwards compatibility (like unsupported viewers and scripting calls), all these new accounts will show a "last name" of "Resident".

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Gunter Vandyke just said what I and everyone I talk to says! So it bears repeating, maybe if we all continue to repeat it... we may be heard? LOL doubt it but let's give it a try anyway.

"Dear Lindens,
i am pretty sure you dont care about what is written here, you want that "feature", you will do it.
Who interest what this old customers say, you want new customers.
Same with Viewer2, 90% complains before and after release, who cares? not you!
You fumble arround to make it better since several month, nothing important is better now, its still a mess.
Ahhh, a popular 3. party viewer is gone, thats maybe the solution to get more V2 user, tricky, but it will not make V2 better.
Still problems with griefers, copybots and alt's, who cares, lets give them more options to grief and copy content. Make SL a facebook and freebie world with millions of weekly changing names. And eleminate the abuse report option, you will not have the power to work on them anyway.
And please forgive me, i know you will have no time to work on other stuff in future bcs you have to fumble arround the Display-Name feature to make it work good, as seen on Viewer2, but let me remind you whats REALY needed here:
MONO-Bug fixed - region border crossing - inventory lost - copybot problem - more groups - more built options - flexi sculptys - mesh - inworld concierge support 7/24 - ......
Wait, wasnt there also another huge problem, ahh yes.... LAG all over SL.
OK, lets stop the irony, do what you want to do, but PLEASE give me the option to switch off this nonsence display-names on my regions.
Thank you"

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Actually I think we are both wrong. It appears that if a single name is chosen, that will be the username and default display. But for backwards compatibilty purposes (unsupported viewers and scripting calls), however, .resident will be added to those names . -- Adam Spark

Keep in mind that "backwards compatbility" won't be needed for the updated viewer.... unless the user disables display names.

It won't need to add ".resident" .. there's nothing in TPV's or old viewers that is yet aware of the "user.name" or "user(nospace)name" formats. Everything in old viewers and old LSL functions will expect just the "User(space)Name" format, so "(space)Resident" must be appended... or for any functions or viewers that expect username to be two words separated by a space may choke.

The two parts I'm less than sure about are:

One, Will LL allow new users to put dots in their usernames... and if so, will the "after-dot" part be used as a "Lastname" for legacy purposes? (I suspect they will not allow dots in future usernames... but who knows)

And two.... How all this will work out with search?

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I think that the whole thing is a bad idea. But...if you have to do this, what if you made it so that every single parcel of land had a "Enable Display Names" checkbox? Leaving it off by default.

Then if I have display names turned off on my land then I will not have any trouble with it.

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It won't need to add ".resident" .. there's nothing in TPV's or old viewers that is yet aware of the "user.name" or "user(nospace)name" formats. Everything in old viewers and old LSL functions will expect just the "User(space)Name" format, so "(space)Resident" must be appended... or for any functions or viewers that expect username to be two words separated by a space may choke.

You are right. It is (space)Resident that will be added in certain situations involving new users, not .resident.

Good grief LL. Could you have made this more complicated if you tried (assuming you didn't try)?

As for searching, apparently both usernames and display names will be searchable (current display names only. not former ones. Which begs a question.. will all of this have potential for harming search performance? Sounds taxing to me, but I am not tech savvy enough to know for sure)

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Ok... this is a very real threat to reputations in SL... builders,designers, and live artists like myself can have their reputations ruined by impersonators! It's hard enough to maintain a good rep as it is now but to have others able to run around with my name is just plain risky. If you have someone in SL that takes a disliking to you they can use your name, copy you looks, and ruin you ! Really bad idea!

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Is LL going nuts??? Is this a way for them to close Second LIfe permanently? OF COURSE this can't go into production. I just wished they spend more time in improving the SL experience instead of useless features.

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Will limiting it to one change per week really lower the risk of impersonation? All someone would have to do is use the right name, and use it with people who don't know how to check the actual account name.. Whether for a week or a few minutes, someone will fall for it. It will still happen, somewhere, sometime.

Better would be if there is some clear and easy way to see what the actual account name is behind the display name.

It could be a wonderful tool for role play, but not much of one with just one change per week. I'm sure it will still be useful for other reasons, but it just somehow makes me rather unenthusiastic about this, even though I am sure I will use this in some capacity.

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The potential for confusion and abuse of this is truly astronomical. And it's a dumb way to address the problem of idiots who make up stupid names when they create their av. So make a new av if you don't like the name you chose for the first one. Why do all this when it's an easily fixable problem? This is just a freakin mystery to me..what use is it? What good is it?

sighs....

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This is going to cause so much confusion in Second Life. I would be absolutely floored of I seen one of these griefers with my display name and someone be on here misrepresenting my name in any kind of way. How is this fun. What is the fun in becoming a second life resident. This is where too much freedom and being allowed. I do not think this is right or fair. I do not seen not one good thing about this.

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If someone choose a bad name when joined SL , well its his/her problem . Can you think about someone almost 4 years building a good name working , someone who work hard and make stuff , creators , stores owners , ppl who made a good name , its all about business . I work hard for almost 4 years here and im so sure that i dont want another person using my name to ruin in few days someting im building for so long time . Its not the first idea when we joined SL and i dont think its a good one now . Its MY RIGHT keep my name and wont let someone else ruin it . I am AGAINST this project , being who i am , i know i will keep my good name and ppl praising and recognizing that i am a hard worker . Go someone else use my name , all my SL will be ruined . Please , someone can have a good idea , not something to ruin others life ?

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OK, check the names of real existing SL-names and these names should not been available for that kind of "fun". For me sounds this more like a fake I.D. . In every roleplay here in SL you can write something over your head, in your profile and we have partnerships in our profile. This makes not much sense to me.

But I am only a little resident (smiles thicky) with this feature I can become a Linden - not bad lol - but I don't need that. Yes if this comes let's all be Lindens. This would be fun!!! The only fun I can see in this.

Grammar and spelling isn't correct for sure - I am from Germany, but if I write German, this would make so much sence as display names in SL in this blog.

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That is the only solution I will accept:

Users being able to disable others using their names.

Dear Lindens, I gave my name thought and would like to stay unique.

After adult this could well be the last straw.

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Why in the heck would i want to change my display name or someone to have the ability to change their display name? And to be able to use someone else's name and do anything they want under that name? My inworld name is supposed to be unique and mine alone. And i want it to stay that way! If someone wants to have something different over their head then they can get one of those "titlers" and use that.

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I am against this to,your name should be yours and not for someone else to,even iff LL calls it a display name,specialy with the sl drama,the griefing there are always people that have a grudge,don't like you or simply are vindictive and find this a perfect opertunety to put a blame on you done by others.

Next to that iff in a crowded place and something happens,for instance griefing,do you realy think people that are getting griefed or even sim owners going to look into profiles iff they have the right name? No because they want to get rid of the griefing asap.

What wil be the next bright idea? ask Lindens for the gas in vehicles

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No ! Don't do it ! It's a silly idea and open to all sorts of abuses. People should NOT be allowed to display a name that is not theirs. What ARE you thinking about ???

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I received a notecard in-world today. Among other things it said:

"Having adopted a name there is nothing to prevent them starting performing in SL under their adopted name. They will be able to advertise shows under their newly adopted ‘display name’ The name will turn up in search, in IM’s and in open chat and thus, without actually claiming to be you, they can trade on your good name or, if they are of a mind, deliberately ruin your reputation at the same time."

Is this true? I mean, it seems ridiculous and dangerously stupid of LL to implement such a measure, or 'feature' but I've heard similar things from many people so... tell me this isn't true... is it?

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You're kidding me right? Do people not realise how much drama this could cause? The reputations that could be ruined, the friendships lost, people lives in tatters, th depresion any crap could cause?

This has got to be the most rediculous thing so far to come from LL.

SL will lose so many people through this!

STOP THIS DISPLAY NAME STUFF! ITS REDICULOUS FFS!

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I am also against anything that would make it even remotely possible to Spoof someones name. This can and will be used by griefers and others who wish to use it to do harm.

People have worked hard to maintain their names in SL, if you want to make it possible to use different names names not currently in use by residents now then fine whatever. To me it's just another waste of time on your part.

The Lindens should spend every waking hour trying to make this game more stable and make it user friendly. Instead they give us things which will undoubtably cause confusion and more disgust with LL.

With the team of people you used to think up this idea you could be providing concierge support as it used to be done, but instead you waste time on this.

Wake up please. Business thrives in a stable environment, you do everything possible to make the environment less stable:

A. Horrible Viewer 2.0

B. Kill Land values (2007 Mainland >20L$/sqM now <4L$ /sqM) yoru plan was to stabilize not to decimate but look what you did.

C. Go into competition with landowners selling Linden Homes and doing all you can to slow down landowners from advertising.

D. Destroy the marketplace and replace it with a bad acid trip that is so FUBAR its hopeless.

E. Now you even want to steal identities and make it that much more confusing and easy for griefers to misuse and abuse someone.

F. As if things werent bad enough now you are going to allow children onto the grid.

G. What's next, let people spoof your Linden Exchange account for fun?

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This seems crazy anyone can use my name, so there could be 100's of the same name WHY.

Oh wait this could be good i can be a Linden now. Or are they blocking in some way that Sir name and if so shouldn't all current and future residents be allowed to block the use of there name?

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Oh No Way! I Play on a Combat Sim, where people can get angry OOC'ly at anytime. I do NOT want anyone being able to copy MY name or anyone else's name at anytime. WHY can LL not understand that? If we can NOT copy Lindens names, then no one should be able to copy OUR names. After all with out US LL would be nothing!

Really please look at the higher possible threats this add to your Customers. we who buy Linden's , play daily.. build, sell , preform..Spend their RL Money Do not need someone else walking around wearing a brand new 'LU STAND' Skin.. (name)

I am shocked That SL is becoming less and less 'user' friendly.

I disagree with this feature (if you want to call it that) in full.

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This is a horrible idea as it will cause many problems for buisness owners, I.E, a patron contacting the wrong person for an issue with a perchase, also it leave the ability open for someone to completely ruin another's reputation. It could also be used to falsafy logged IMs in a very easy mannor, which people could use to completely destroy relations between one another, as well as make it impossable for you to know if you are speaking to the person that you intended to speak with.

so all in all, BAD IDEA.... let's see, a short recap of a short list of just what i have thought of thus far.

identity theft and harrasment are the things this "Display Name" will bring into a whole new degree.

I am not a busness owner but, i am a designer for one and this idea could potentially bankrupt alot of owners via identity theft being used with a dsiplay name to scare off potential patrons.

I would hope that ALL buisness owners would disagree with this idea in it's entirety

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LL please give this a bit more thought. Many of us use our SL names for business and our reputation is what makes our business run smooth. What you are doing here is giving anyone who thinks it could be fun, is upset at you, etc. to take our name and use it in ways to harm us or others.

I gave my name much thought and wanted a name that was a one of a kind, a name that was me. Now you are saying anyone can just take my name? Use it as their own? and therefore making me nothing more then a 3D image just like any other. Now that a person can take me name and copy my look.

Greifers are all so happy and excited over this move. Some have been bragging of the "fun" they will have. Messing up peoples lives, getting back a people they do not like, pretending to be some of our more known SL named people, etc. Now it will be so easy for them to mess with performers scheduals, open busineeses under another business persons name, etc.

What are you thinking? and by saying they can only do it once a week, you somehow think that is some sort of security? really? wow This is by far the worse move I have seen LL do yet (and there have been a few). Take away our uniquenes and give the greifers more amo. Who's side are you on anyway?

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Look, I see where the idea came from... being able to make your own name (including Surname) is a cool idea. But to make it a free for all where anyone can make any name they like and then not implement some sort of security so there can only be ONE of the same name... that's just ... I don't know, words fail at describing the extreme level of stupidity, incompetance and total lack of forethought!

If you want people to be able to choose their own first AND last name, make it so there can only be ONE with that exact name. If you can't make it possible in that way, then SCRAP IT TIL YOU CAN!

It just blows my mind that LL thought this would be a GOOD idea :/

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ARE you people insane I dont want people having access to my name and being able to use it. all your asking for is trouble. It's bad enough we have to deal with griefers and hackers on sl everyday, But know this, you are just giving them free run of the place and going to lose alot of players because of it and be flooded everyday with complaints, which you will do nothing about like always. THIS IS A VERY VERY BAD IDEA the only ones that will agree with it are the ones who want to spy on people, mess with there stuff and cause trouble, again VERY VERY BAD IDEA

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Hey all,

Just my two cents about this all. For many people is their name private. And I know that Linden always say everything is ours. But after they desided to do age verification and payment user info on file then a lot has changed. The name isn't in my eyes a property of Linden. It is owned by the one who did his age verification and filled in his id card spefication. So I dont see any good reason to use my name or information for this. And of course I will say NO to this because I don't see any good reason to say YES to this.

People will say it is my name and my info is behind it and they are right.

Karel

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A suggestion, not that anyone from LL will read it.

Why not make it possible for people to BUY a name change, so they can at least pick a name that is avaliable. Start deleting accounts that have not been used in say 12 months or more?

I mean if little IMVU can do it, why not Second Life? I like my name, even if i wanted it to be LUNA not lu. Lu Stand is still my idenity, no one else's.

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The first day LL released the news about display names, the only thing that came to my mind is what a huge mistake it was and all that could happen because of it. What are you thinking LL, this an outrageous feature and an utter waste of your time. There are so many other important issues you could be addressing. It is just another example of how much you listen those of us that live SL and not just drop in from time to time out of boredom. Those of us that are here and have residences, businesses and spend our hard earned money are the ones you should be listening to, not those who don't have more important things to do in SL, but worry about changing their names. I want my user name to stay exactly the same, a proper name with proper capitalization and spacing. You also seem to want to contribute to the lack of the proper use of English that has gone downhill since the advent of chatrooms. All that being said, I am Lissianna Silverweb. It is my name and has been since I started SL. It was part of the sign on process and I was lead to believe that it was mine and mine alone. I am sorry if others started out using something stupid as their name. Let them pay the price and start over again. I am also sick and tired of hearing people whine about wanting to have their married name. Then do the same thing my friends and other do. Get yourself a titler and put you married name there. You can also, be married and still be an individual and if that doesn't work for you, you can do the same thing as the people that used stupid names to start with, both of you get new accounts with the same name.

It seems LL is making a lot of ridiculous decisions lately. Another example, putting teens on the main grid. Where will it all end, maybe with a mass exodus of the best of SL leaving for other worlds. Lindens, it is time to start thinking and not just doing.

I say, NO TO DISPLAY NAME, NO TO TEENS BEING ARE THE MAIN GRID, NO TO THE MISUSE OF CAPITALIZATION AND PROPER SPACING AND NO TO VIEWER 2.

DO YOU ACTUALLY HEAR OR LISTEN LINDENS?

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I have a few questions about this Display name ...

1) How can we ban an avitar is all we get is a display name and we put that on and they go and change it right away?

2) How can we keep our good names as business people if we have pissed off customers changing there name to ours and potentially ruining our good name?

3) How can we decifer indivuduality if people now have the chance to copy what we have taken some of us years to create and perfect?

I'm not trying to be negative on it I would just like all angels answered so that good SL citizens who have worked long and hard donot get banned over this due to mistaken identity... I know in the RL I have seen people shot over it and good people die...just dont want to see good people fall here in SL.

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Dear Lindens and Second Life Users,

I personally think this is a bad Idea, a very grave mistake on the behalf of linden labs for the user database. Think about this for a moment if you will. Someone decides that you have wronged them, just completely harmed them in some shape form or fashion and adopts your user name as their "Display Name" they then go to the sim you hang out in and "grief"... now you get an IM stating that you have been banned and the reason why, but for some "odd" reason you have no recollection of ever doing such things. This specific example is more geared towards those users that play in combat/roleplay sims. Because simply if I say ..Ok I hate Joe Blow today so I will adopt his user name as my "display name" and then cause so much hell that he gets banned, and there is little to nothing that anyone can do about it. People using user names as "display names" could cause potential destruction of merchants reputations. And for instance say someone inspects an object you are wearing, one they like very much and again "adopt" your user name as their "display name" ... they then contact the maker of said object they have their eye on and ask for a duplicate because they "lost" their object... this opens all KINDS of doors for manipulation and deceit, leaving merchants to stutter or second guess everyone... This is dangerous and very much like Real life identity theft. Not to remention the False AR reports already addressed on previous comments. There are many many negative reprocussions that accompany this rediculous new "feature"....Essentially releasing this is a deadly deteriorating poison for the whole of second life users.

Please Linden Labs... Reconsider this before the chaos errupts for users and merchants alike.

I protest this to the very end as a Merchant in SL and a User that does not WISH to have her name taken/used/stolen/represented by anyone other than ... ME!

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Very Well Stated!

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As a business owner this is concerning. Anyone could take my name and use it as a display name and pretend to be me at my shop or send note cards to the wrong person. I would rather not have that mess. Even worse this could give business owners a bad rep is someone decides to display your name and cause havoc everywhere they go.

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A suggestion, not that anyone from LL will read it.

Why not make it possible for people to BUY a name change, so they can at least pick a name that is avaliable. Start deleting accounts that have not been used in say 12 months or more?

I mean if little IMVU can do it, why not Second Life? I like my name, even if i wanted it to be LUNA not lu. Lu Stand is still my idenity, no one else's.

The saddest thing of all is that LL already does (or did) this:

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Custom_Name_Program

Shame it was never promoted like display names are. I guess it made too much sense.

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There is no way to prevent impersonation unless you visiually make a difference in the way the "display name" is displayed from the way the "avatar name" is displayed. Even blocking existing SL names is not a solution. It is quite easy for someone to change their display name to "Lyn MimistrobeII" where the last 2 characters are uppercase i's rather than lowercase L's. There is no visual difference.

Allthought I initially applauded the idea, I thought to change my display name the moment I started my RP and returning to my original name when I went OOC. However, as the change is only allowed weekly this is not even possible.

However, as long as there is no easy way for everyone (including new and less experienced users) to immediately recognize whether they are dealing with me or someone pretending to be me, I have to ask you to hold this project for now.

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Dear Lindens,

I have trusted you, that my name is unique here in SL. Please ensure that this remains unchanged. What a horrible idea having people here doing all kind of things in my name !!

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I am not even sure why a "display name" is needed. This idea is ridiculous and if the display name does happen to become aprt of the next release you'll stand to lose.

Stop this ridiculous implementation!

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I have trusted you, that my name is unique here in SL. Please ensure that this remains unchanged. What a horrible idea having people here doing all kind of things in my name !!

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I agree with those who protest the introduction of the display names. It strikes me that this implementation is a huge security risk and inviting lots of griefer fun at any individual's expense. For once in your corporate mindset add some common sense and scrap this insane idea.

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Yes I still wonder why you bother developping such an idea... What can it bring?? other than troubles mainly for business maker...

You guys must know how many bad intentional persons that will try to take advantage of this !

You should develop better rezzing, better definition, lag, homestead/sim questions... But surely not bringing something else new and more troubles... Or is the idea ppl would leave sl to try other worlds setting up ??

I start to wonder !

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I agree Tegan.
I trusted LL as well & if they really decide to go through with this, this will be a breach of that trust of all residents!!!!!

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I am shocked that LL even considered that idea.
Just for example, last week someone left a message in one of the group chats with a link to a survey. That Link directed you to an internet page which looked exactly like the SL login page. But it turned out to be a phishin attempted.

I reported this & that person got banned straight away.

Now imagine someone uses a name that already exists:
they would post a message like this & then people will report the wrong person, because they will not see the correct name, only the name that the scamer would be using.
& what happens next? the account of an innocent resident will be banned.
Oh i'm sure they have the possibility to appeal that decision but i don't think that a resident should be even put into a position like this.

So far I asumed that LL was intersted in security of everybody in SL.

But then again we all know what people say when you asume things!!!

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