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. 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.
On 20 August 2010 12:03, Stickman <stick...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I am talking about someone creating any random throwaway user account, > then > > setting their DISPLAY NAME to "Stickman Ingman", trusting that enough > people > > are stupid enough not to look at the real username and compare it with > yours. > > Yep. I believe this is totally possible for people to do. The FAQs > says it's against TOS to do so for the sake of impersonating someone > else. But as far as I know there is no technical limitation preventing > someone from doing so. I'm willing to accept the possibility of > troubles it will bring because of the freedom it offers in exchange. > If you aren't, you'll have to make some pretty compelling arguments > that convinces LL that the freedom isn't worth it, or can be preserved > through some other method. Convincing me doesn't need to be on your > todo list. > > As a side note, I see where you're coming from. In another world, one > with a higher density of matchstick men, I'd agree with you. I think > LL would, too. > > Stickman > _______________________________________________ > Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: > http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev > Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting > privileges >
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