On 10/15/2010 06:53, Stickman wrote: > If it's not, the Lindens should be waking up soon and see a huge > thread of people screaming that the sky is falling and put some > authority down on the situation. Looking forward to it, those clouds > are looking awfully close.
The sky may not be falling and its not a question of unreasoning panic or hyperbole, but the whole point of logs is to be able to go back to them after the fact and see who said what. I'd even grudgingly accept a format change provided theres more in there as an identifier than just a bare uuid - its GOT to have at a minimum both the real name and the display name they are using at the time. Without both those the utility of any kind of logging becomes questionable. Logs will still be of value to resolve disputes since they record the uuids of the participants (although that process becomes a LOT less straightforward since one has to look up the uuid to find any name) but what about situations where inworld activities are being logged for another purpose, like documenting RP story arcs? Somebody changes "roles" in the RP a few months down the line and switches their display name to match and suddenly all the logs of their previous character seem to refer to their current one since theres no contemporaneous logging of the display name. Certainly one of the RP groups I spend time with is going to have a hard time, since theres a lot of stuff they use logs for - copying them over to group websites to provide records and narrative so that we keep decent continuity. To provide a more silly example of why its a bad idea, to know that uuid 00000000-0000-0000-0000-0000000000000 was yelling "Fear my sparkly colors!" just isnt funny if you cant remember that user Joe.Lame was using the display name of "Phils Codpiece" at the time...... _______________________________________________ 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
