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But… just for the sake of argument, just how would you suggest we do it? Even getting two people into the same room claiming to be Pix and I IRL could easily enough be faked. Anything short of that is even easier to fix.

Feels kind of like having a ‘porn name’. I fail to see any actual increase in credibility from being encouraged to provide a pseudonym on top of my SL name.

“In real life, Tateru Nino is really Jerk Harder, a fifty-five year old hermaphrodite trucker from Virginia, with a body-hair problem.”

Actually, that might have a little mileage in it.

Hey, Pixeleen and Eloise — Prove that you are not merely the alts of somebody’s main, whom we do not know the RL name of *shrugs*.

Hiro: I think being employed by someone is different to being on the news. I’ve done both IRL, although admitedly my appearance on the news was ages ago, during a visit by the Queen to my then home town when I was a child. I expect to have an ongoing relationship with an employer, and a very fleeting relationship with the news. As you’ve said there are also legal considerations about employing someone that may require full real life names.

I’m not sure I want the press to be honest. I’m never going to be the “shock, horror” exposé writer, because I don’t write the hyperbole and don’t ever read it. We do, however, seem to have the press appearing, and starting to trample the TOS.

yes, I do, because that’s how most newspapers of record behave, including the Times and the Post. Perhaps BBC was massaged into this position by Justin Bovington of RRR, and perhaps in their tech section they could get away with reporting on the silly game antics, but serious articles will want to have your name.

Of course, you can have the option of not linking the avatar and RL names with some newspapers if you give them your real name and say, I wish not to have it used but my avatar’s name can be used. But that means you may not be used. Most journalists will not want to use you. The Times will be one of them.

As a side note, I find a strong correlation between people who let drama get the best of them in SL and people who don’t like to provide their real identity. People who are more easy-going and transparent with their identity tend to be regularly far more professional than those who don’t.

As a business, I flat out will not hire anyone who can’t provide real info. (though, there are additional legal reasons for that as well)

For once, Prokofy is right.

Acknowledging a disparity between your second life account and your actual person is necessary, for without such recognizance your rationality is diminished.

That said:

The last thing y’all want is the Feds to come in and regulate SL. I know thats what Linden Labs thinks they want, but that’s just stupid.

SL is surreal enough by itself. Having the RL press covering events that happen in a virtual world and then demanding information that links residents back to the real world seems to just be stepping over a line. What happens when slLib or whoever succeeds at creating autonomous bot NPC avatars that make news? Will the New York Times refer to them by their creator’s name?

I’m of the opinion though, that if the RL continues to wish to cover SL they will eventually learn to abide by our strange rules and customs.