Well, you can imagine my surprise when I logged onto the SL website to do a bit of financial control and general management to find, when I checked out who was online, that I had friends on my list who I don't know...
Handmadeandroid, Luscious Lily and Oliver Slipstream are NOT people I have ever friended.
Luckily I am still running 1.23 and Imprudence because, I'm sorry, but once these new contrived names start appearing on my friends list....they are gonna be culled.
It's not because I don't like you, I just don't know you.
I hate FaceBook because people use their real names, often without telling me who they are. They may be Joe Swift in RL but that is absolutely no good to me when I have met them as Quirky Av..
If you have an urgent need to change your name and do so without telling me... what else can I do but drop you and see if you get back to me with an explanation of who you really were.
I have trouble enough keeping up with who is who without playing silly buggers.
Send me a notecard if we are close, if not....live long and change your name often...
:))
Showing posts with label Display Names.. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Display Names.. Show all posts
Sunday, 5 December 2010
Wednesday, 1 September 2010
On being a Linden...
If you are a Linden it seems like your name will have some protection under the new Display Names fiasco.
That is the idea, however, as Buckaroo Mu points out in the comments to the announcement that it is being trialled (here)...
"No "inappropriate" names filter is going to work, and for one simple reason. UNICODE. That's over 100,000 different letters designed to display any written letter/character/glyph in use in any language. Many people get a kick out of using Unicode to write text �pısdn u�op. Guess what? It's also REALLY easy to use Unicode to find characters that look exactly like every letter used in the English language (and most others). Who's going to maintain the table that says you can't use "inden" preceeded by any Unicode codepoint that resembles an L?"
This is a very important point. It is impossible to police.
...and WHY are Lindens more important than us plebs? My name is as important as anyone elses.
Barak Obama was online (not) and ....
It seems to me as if I will not be the creator of the objects I created after (if) I change my name.... but, if someone changes their name to soror Nishi they can then change the permissions on my objects... apparently all objects in search and my inventory will have their name changed to my current preference, but objects across the grid....nope...
As Fred Gandt say.... "I could go on and on and on about this but I can't be bothered."
ColeMarie Soleil has been suspended because she was recently reported by a griefer, it will take a week for the Boys to sort this out... lol....they ain't seen nothing yet...this name change possibility is a Griefers Charter.
So bad I hardly know what else to say....
It could be the single worst "improvement" so far...
:))
That is the idea, however, as Buckaroo Mu points out in the comments to the announcement that it is being trialled (here)...
"No "inappropriate" names filter is going to work, and for one simple reason. UNICODE. That's over 100,000 different letters designed to display any written letter/character/glyph in use in any language. Many people get a kick out of using Unicode to write text �pısdn u�op. Guess what? It's also REALLY easy to use Unicode to find characters that look exactly like every letter used in the English language (and most others). Who's going to maintain the table that says you can't use "inden" preceeded by any Unicode codepoint that resembles an L?"
This is a very important point. It is impossible to police.
...and WHY are Lindens more important than us plebs? My name is as important as anyone elses.
Barak Obama was online (not) and ....
It seems to me as if I will not be the creator of the objects I created after (if) I change my name.... but, if someone changes their name to soror Nishi they can then change the permissions on my objects... apparently all objects in search and my inventory will have their name changed to my current preference, but objects across the grid....nope...
As Fred Gandt say.... "I could go on and on and on about this but I can't be bothered."
ColeMarie Soleil has been suspended because she was recently reported by a griefer, it will take a week for the Boys to sort this out... lol....they ain't seen nothing yet...this name change possibility is a Griefers Charter.
So bad I hardly know what else to say....
It could be the single worst "improvement" so far...
:))
Wednesday, 18 August 2010
Resident.
All new residents are to have Resident as their last name?
So, if I were to sign up today/soon my name will be...sororNishi Resident.
...details of LSL script changes brought about to accommodate the wonderful Display Name tool for truly expressing your creativity are to be found here.
Now, we will have to see, but from what I read here, all new Residents will be called Resident. As you may expect of course I hate being called a resident, sounds like a long term patient at a mental institution. hmmm...makes you think.... still it's hardly an honorary title is it?
So, the idea is that the user name will be unique (?) and so newbies will not have to tax their brains choosing a second name as that will be Resident. Now, some total fool thinks this will increase retention of newbies....which makes you wonder who is the resident and who is running this asylum.
Wonko the Sane springs to mind quite vividly these days.
The 72 hour time lag between someone changing their Display Name and that Display Name being recognised by scripts etc seems like another perfect tool for griefers to have fun with.
....but I would be mental to keep ranting on about this, its been in secret development for ages, so nothing is gonna stop it.
...ah, Wonko....
:))
So, if I were to sign up today/soon my name will be...sororNishi Resident.
...details of LSL script changes brought about to accommodate the wonderful Display Name tool for truly expressing your creativity are to be found here.
Now, we will have to see, but from what I read here, all new Residents will be called Resident. As you may expect of course I hate being called a resident, sounds like a long term patient at a mental institution. hmmm...makes you think.... still it's hardly an honorary title is it?
So, the idea is that the user name will be unique (?) and so newbies will not have to tax their brains choosing a second name as that will be Resident. Now, some total fool thinks this will increase retention of newbies....which makes you wonder who is the resident and who is running this asylum.
Wonko the Sane springs to mind quite vividly these days.
The 72 hour time lag between someone changing their Display Name and that Display Name being recognised by scripts etc seems like another perfect tool for griefers to have fun with.
....but I would be mental to keep ranting on about this, its been in secret development for ages, so nothing is gonna stop it.
...ah, Wonko....
:))
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