Comments on: Second Life’s New Naming Policy

By: Second Life Can Fix Paul Ryan’s Marathon Lies!!! | The Alphaville Herald

Mon, 03 Sep 2012 16:30:13 +0000

[...] There is clearly some precedent here. The Salt Lake Tribune reported in 2009 that President Barack Obama's mother was baptized posthumously into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, so even if Paul Ryan isn't personally involved, it still might work. Could proxy baptism and retroactive truthing be why Linden Lab granted Second Life players the ability to use display names? [...]

By: Vegas Lilliehook

Vegas Lilliehook — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 19:55:49 +0000

So get this.. I play tiny empires and just bribed someone who was 11 days old and had a last name that was NOT resident… wtf?!

By: Yep

Yep — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 20:07:14 +0000

Go Tiger!!! Go Tiger Go!!!!!!!

Go getem Tiger

By: Nelson Jenkins

Nelson Jenkins — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 16:48:24 +0000

@ swift

What “recent events”? Emerald is not Phoenix. If you’re really daft enough to use vanilla 1.23, which doesn’t even get SECURITY updates anymore, then you don’t get to complain about missing features.

By: swift

swift — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 12:40:58 +0000

@Nelson jenkins

I would never use phoenix again after recent events.
That viewer is a godawful example of bloat and they cant even build the linux version so that sound works “out of the box” in ubuntu or mint or any other variety of linux.
The coding is a godawful mess compared to other better programmed viewers and i dont trust the phoenix developers one bit

By: Nelson Jenkins

Nelson Jenkins — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 05:36:03 +0000

@ Takari

Are you some kind of an idiot? Why are you using LL’s 1.23? Use Phoenix.

By: Takari

Takari — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 05:33:09 +0000

For those of us who choose to not use Viewer 2-point-whatever, we continually DO see “Resident” as a last name for all these new avatars. We have no choice. It doesn’t matter what they decide to pick as a surface paint for a name in the new viewer. Our viewer will continue to show “Resident”.

Linden Labs, please provide a fix/update to the older viewer, even if it isn’t the at the same level of functionality but just some work-around so we don’t all hail from the “Resident” family. It can’t be that hard. This is a joke. Not all of us can use the new viewer. I’m not going to buy a new computer just so I can, either.

By: Nelson Jenkins

Nelson Jenkins — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 04:01:54 +0000

@ Jaxus Resident

Yeah, maybe if you read the article it would be pretty obvious that your nametag wouldn’t have “Resident” behind it.

By: Jaxus Resident

Jaxus Resident — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 02:43:48 +0000

I can see plusses and minuses to this. I just don’t want to see RESIDENT attached to my name. I really fucking don’t. RESIDENT is not part of the name I chose for myself. It’s fine if it’s appended to me in the system for LL to do identify me but I DONT WANT TO FUCKING SEE IT ON THE GRID AS MY USERNAME…ya know?

By: Dr Fell

Dr Fell — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 20:23:35 +0000

I think they did this to stop greifers but it still doesnt really help. This new system breaks the registration APi and makes all 3rd party registration useless. Way to go Linden Labs for fucking us up yet again.

I hate it. I liked the diffrent last names. now when you make a new name you have much limited options which is stupid but whatever