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Schwartz Gustafson added a comment - 09/Jul/07 03:55 AM
This seems more like a policy suggestion than any kind of actionable bug, yeah?
I'm downgrading this to major as its impact since it's a cosmetic issue (but an important one, I agree) and changing it to a New Feature since as far as I'm aware there's no bug involved.
Agreed - it's time...it's really time. While it might be funny the first few times, I am finding it hard to properly address people with names like ImABigPieceofCake6911OMFGTPME34 Hax.
Please? How hard could it be? Someone to sit down with a phone book for an hour or so to grab some more names? I volunteer, if that's what's needed.
Yeah, could not agree more (reflect on my Avatar name!)
As an addition:
In the dawn of time when SL was small, restricted and then retiring last names was seen as a community builder and a mark of age.
Look at me man: Renaud Raymaker, is that a name?... I wanted to be called Al Raspoutine, but Al is taken for all last names, and you cannot choose your last name in this game. Second Life sucks man!
Totally agree - I've got friends who've been disappointed they can't join with the first name they want as it's universally taken.
When were the names last rotatated? Months ago, and millions or residents ago. A lot of the newer residents have numbers in their first names, and it's making it all just a little bit less immersive, I feel - a reminder that this is more a screen handle and less an identity. Yeah, I agree, rotate them more often. Once a month or so. Look at mine.....S was taken so now it's Zammy with a Z. Well it's kinda cool anyway
 A discussion of this, plus several lengthy lists of potential future surnames, is underway on the Second Life Forums. http://forums.secondlife.com/showthread.php?t=199764
 Adding: I am more for adding new names rather than raising old ones from the dead. Those old names were intended to be unique and retired.
From the http://forums.secondlife.com/showthread.php?t=199764
thread Marianne mentioned above...I take no credit for the list just posting to get them into Jira. ^^ List as of noon on 07/26/2007. LOL Surely the Lindens could swipe some of these!
Swazzle A - Asgard Farmer Ahmadinejad Abba Arbalast imogen 01. Andress Attard Agouti Aces A. Aaron Trout Macchia Squint Argent Slavedriver Aesar Albatross Anomatopoeia Prower (obvious) Baker Lulz a anibal Armpit Alarmist critters arowana I can't vote for this because it address two unrelated issues (rotation, which I'm for) and retirement (which I'm against). I think the core issue is that we should be able to choose our names. Yes, I know we can pay Linden Lab for a custom name, but in my opinion that's a rip-off. Sorry, but I have to be blunt about that. Even better than rotation would be to have the entire set of names available at all times, rather than having to sort through an arbitrary list of (often stupid) last names,
From the Knowledge Base, Second Life Last Names FAQ
<quote> You can make casual suggestions to a Linden because it's fun to share, but please understand they likely will not be added because we'd be flooded with requests. There are too just many great ideas out there for us to keep track of. If anyone is interested in statistics, see http://slnamewatch.com/
I think it does not cover CSI last names properly (shows at least some of them as if only one avatar would use that last name), but it could be pretty much up to date otherwise.
Top 3 (no longer available) are: Allen 154317, Oh 96164, Beck 95952 The ones starting with A are particularly popular for bots. Who would bother scrolling down the list when creating dozens of them... According to the data on that page, the top ones were active for 6 months and presumably were not closed earlier for overpopularity. FAQ states last names are "retired manually after being picked in the high hundreds ". There is a big gap from 1000 to 150,000. But 10,000 sounds reasonable to me, with current influx you can't expect 500, you must admit. My last name was apparently closed at 5371. I haven't met anyone with the same last name yet. I did however see quite a few of those from the top of the list. Basically, WarKirby, you will need to define the fit criteria for closing this one Thank you, ZigZag.
I just want to quickly address this - The CSI names posed an interesting challenge for me. First, these last names were never in the list of last names available through secondlife.com. Therefore, finding them relied a bit of luck. I'm sure I missed a few of them. Secondly, my site updates the count of active last names about once a week, and the counts of retired last names about once every three months. The CSI last names were troublesome because they were not retired, but they were not active either, as active is defined as "available on the join now page". Long story short, even after I discover them and enter them manaully, the CSI names will be on the 3-month counting schedule rather than the 1-week counting schedule. While waiting for the long update, counts will show as 1. I haven't thought up a way to fix this problem yet. One possibility is to keep track of the last names available at the electricsheepcompany registration portal... Does anyone know if there are an other portals besides SL's own Join Now page, and (sigh) electricsheepcompany.com's CSI:NY registration page? I can't believe there are some names out there that are only available depending on what portal you use. grrrr.
I think it would be good to have a hard cap on a name usage. Something like 5-8000. I think 10,000 is too much, though.#
Is Hax retired yet? I'm so sick of that I have just completed some fundamental changes to slnamewatch.com that accommodate the exclusive names available to CSI:NY. The respective counts have all been updated. They no longer all say "1". Here they are:
http://slnamewatch.com/index.php?action=list_records&status_filter=active-alt&sort_order=DESC&order_by=usage_count
These changes do not affect the name rotation alert mailing list. If anyone knows of alternative RegAPI portals with their own sets of exclusive last names, I can accommodate them as well. CSI:NY is the only one I know of, though. Yes, WarKirby. Hax was retired on 2007-07-28. 66,484 users who managed to register under it during the 179 days it was open still have active accounts appearing in People Search as of 2007-10-25. According to http://www.slnamewatch.com/
there has not been a new surname added since 137 days ago, come on LL its time to refresh the list!60 names added on 14th March, ty LL. There are about 3000 available last names now, I'd say that fixes this issue.
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Rotate the avatar last names. Retire old ones,
10,000? 25,000?