On 4 June 2018 at 18:34, Mean Taipan <[email protected]> wrote: > OK, sorry I was not aware from the registration that it would be prominent > let alone offensive. Even though I'm close to 60, rather than 6, and have > been a software developer for 40 years, I can still learn a few new things, > like that just because I expect and don't care that people use dumb > pseudonyms on the Internet, other people are not severely affected. My bad, > and you and my fellow forum users have my sincerest apology.
No problem, thanks for taking steps to improve your name. The issue with non human names is a nightmare for a project lead like myself. You have dozens of different conversations each day, hundreds through the month on various different venues - some on github, some on email direct, some via the forum/osg-uses ML, if everyone uses the same proper human name across all these platforms you can use normal human tracking of who's who and what you've said to whom, when the numbers of contacts goes up then it gets harder to keep track but it's more doable. Once people start introducing non human names, and use one name one place, another somewhere else it becomes far far harder to know who's said what and when, it rapidly becomes a nightmare. Something that should be straight forward then requires any extra level of conscious unpicking of the indirections that these psuedonames introduce. What might seem a "convenience" for end users to pick any name they wish for any whimsical reason becomes are serious burden, and as the years go by the problem has gotten worse. It's just horrible to have to wade through this stuff. It's just so much more efficient to use proper human names right across all mediums of communication, no indirections, leverage existing brain pathways for remembering who's who. Humans came up with these names to help communication, it's one of the clever bits of societal glue then enables civilizations to be cohesive and grow. One you loose face to face contact it becomes even more important not less as you need all the cues you can get. Cheers, Robert. _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
