Qwalyphi Korpov Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 The resident who provided the previous content, if any, has replaced it with this generic statement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ishtara Rothschild Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 I've recently added the wrong person to the access list of my homestead sim. I searched for a partial name, and it just so happened that the display name of the person that I wanted to invite over was almost identical with a legacy user name. I could just as easily have paid the wrong person, or sent the wrong person an item. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astringofcharacters Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 Most display names warn me off. The only ones that have interested me are the foreign ones. Nice to see Chinese or Russians being able to express their identity. I've heard some people actually complain about this because they can't read the name. How appallingly narrow-minded. Why not try speaking to some of those foreigners? They might tell you how to pronounce their name. You might even learn to recognize a few new symbols. I'm not fond of my own username, btw; I spent an hour trying to come up with one I liked that wasn't taken or rejected before giving up and letting Google define it for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peewee Musytari Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 Ishtara Rothschild wrote: I've recently added the wrong person to the access list of my homestead sim. I searched for a partial name, and it just so happened that the display name of the person that I wanted to invite over was almost identical with a legacy user name. I could just as easily have paid the wrong person, or sent the wrong person an item. Do display names come up in search? They don`t on my viewer thank goodness, cos that would suck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qwalyphi Korpov Posted April 16, 2011 Author Share Posted April 16, 2011 The resident who provided the previous content, if any, has replaced it with this generic statement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darrius Gothly Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 Qwalyphi Korpov wrote: I don't know if they come up in search. I do know there was lots of discussion about how hard it would be to search for ones with special characters in them. Countless trees were sacrificed to carry on the debate about another issue: the potential to use a display name that matched a user name to 'impersonate' an identity. This was supposed to be a big threat in the case of merchants. Many of them were concerned that griefing by others using their user names as display names. They felt that this would cause damage to their relationships with valued customers. Some issues generate much more heat than they should IMO. Display names do not come up in Search, however Usernames (user.name) do and so do Avatar (User Name) names. As Display Names was initially conceived and tested, the possibility for abuse and impersonation was 100% possible .. with no real protection against it. But there was a tremendous amount of "heat" (meaning more digital trees sacrificed) and finally LL relented and adjusted the operation to help prevent these problems. If you're suggesting that it was all a tempest in a teapot because ... after all ... nothing bad has happened, then you're off-base a bit. Nothing that bad has happened specifically BECAUSE the hew and cry raised by the User Community was heard, considered and used to fix the initial idea. In short, the system worked. Trying to characterize it as just more useless whining about what has turned out to be a non-problem is incorrect. The predictions of doom 'n gloom when Display Names were announced were dead on accurate. If LL hadn't made changes, the warnings would have been all too real today. PS: A lot of the reason that Display Names have not been more trouble (IMO) is because the TPV's implemented additional tools and info displays that even further untangle the confusing mess LL created. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qwalyphi Korpov Posted April 16, 2011 Author Share Posted April 16, 2011 The resident who provided the previous content, if any, has replaced it with this generic statement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darrius Gothly Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 LOL +5 Qwalyphi 8^) In the beginning, LL was going to make your Display Name the only (readily) visible Identity for you. This would have weakened the Relationship between a Display name and the Avatar's Identity .. thus rendering it untrustworthy. But now we have tools to display the true Identity (the user.name and Avatar Name) and cement the Relationship with an Identity that cannot be changed. (Okay okay .. but you made a noteworthy reply Qwalyphi. I just had to follow in the same vein and share in the mirth.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qwalyphi Korpov Posted April 16, 2011 Author Share Posted April 16, 2011 The resident who provided the previous content, if any, has replaced it with this generic statement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Dresden Ceriano Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 ...Dres Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenni Darkwatch Posted April 17, 2011 Share Posted April 17, 2011 Qwalyphi Korpov wrote: Have display names affected your relationships? Has anyone used display names to steal your identity? No, and no. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peewee Musytari Posted April 17, 2011 Share Posted April 17, 2011 I was never concerned about a risk from display name identity theft but I did think there was potential for harm in the new single usernames, especially for a one word business identities, so I did grab my company name as an alt when they were released just in case anyone else did. I think on name tags display names do look like display names and not like usernames. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Susanto Posted April 19, 2011 Share Posted April 19, 2011 I used my RL first name and "Susanto" from the list by process of elimination. One criterion was that I figured it was a name combination that would practically never come up in RL. Then I joined Facebook. "Uff-da". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ishtara Rothschild Posted April 21, 2011 Share Posted April 21, 2011 Peewee Musytari wrote: Ishtara Rothschild wrote: I've recently added the wrong person to the access list of my homestead sim. I searched for a partial name, and it just so happened that the display name of the person that I wanted to invite over was almost identical with a legacy user name. I could just as easily have paid the wrong person, or sent the wrong person an item. Do display names come up in search? They don`t on my viewer thank goodness, cos that would suck. No, but I was looking for her display name instead of her user name, and what came up in search was a user name that was almost identical with her display name. I had display names enabled at that time and memorized the wrong name when chatting with her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ishtara Rothschild Posted April 21, 2011 Share Posted April 21, 2011 Darrius Gothly wrote: PS: A lot of the reason that Display Names have not been more trouble (IMO) is because the TPV's implemented additional tools and info displays that even further untangle the confusing mess LL created. Even so (I use Phoenix), I managed to confuse display and user name. People have all kinds of stuff over their heads now -- group title, display name, user name, viewer tag -- which makes it easy to get two of them mixed up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ishtara Rothschild Posted April 21, 2011 Share Posted April 21, 2011 Peewee Musytari wrote: I was never concerned about a risk from display name identity theft but I did think there was potential for harm in the new single usernames, especially for a one word business identities, so I did grab my company name as an alt when they were released just in case anyone else did. I think on name tags display names do look like display names and not like usernames. I've also grabbed IshtaraRothschiId (the lower case l is an upper case I) and lshtaraRothschild (with the first letter being a lower case L), as well as lshtaraRothschiId (a combination of the two). Better safe than sorry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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