[Viewer 2.3 Beta Available Today With Display Names and More]

Resdya, If there are no legitimate concerns for anybody but whiny, closed-minded little bitches, why have the Lindens chosen to forbid use of their name as a super harmless fun display name?

Got a legitimate answer to that question?

I keep seeing this on point brought up.  I don't have a difinitive answer.  My best *guess* though is that the disallowance of the Linden name is so deeply baked into the code for so many years that it's just not possible to allow it.

At leat not without the possibility of hugly horrible things going wrong.  I would be willing to bet there are special abilities and privilages granted to the name and I'd not want a good chunk of the population getting any of them by mistake or accident just because one line of code buried deep inside some spaghettified library didn't get updated.

Even if the code is rock solid, I also know programmers are people prone to silly mistakes sometime and I'd not want to risk that 1 misplaced variable calling name instead of ID for some super power that's buried and long forgotten might be lurking about.

That'd be a worse PR nightmare than someone just impersonating them.

[Viewer 2.3 Beta Available Today With Display Names and More]

In response to Neo Ornamental's questions above :

 

 

In order

1)  Yes, the user name shows in local chat an IM's and Group IM.  the names come across as display (uers): blah blah.

2) Kinda.  you have to mouse over and the user name will display as a tool tip

3) No.  that's one point of conusion.

4) Since user name is promenently displayed, and I have found options to turn off Display name viewing, but not user name viewing I think the ability for people to pretend to be you is mitigated quite a bit.  Object creator/ownership is displayed the same way.  IE: "Display (user)"

5) no answer

6) just watched.  with the above noted, I think most all of the vid is inaccurate and has not bearing.

 

just my 2 electrons worth.

 

edit;

I sit corrected.  you can turn off user name display, but that only effects the "over the head" display of the user name.  the "Display (user)" combo still shows up in chat and other places.  So, it still is fairly mitigated on how easily it is to impersonate someone.