>>Why can't I tell shapeshifters by name, etc.
>
>That is not the gist of my post at all. I posted about being
>worried about people abusing game mechanics (Or what I think
>is an abuse, and what those who replied to it seem to think is
>an abuse) and listed the only ideas I could think of to solve
>the problem.

I appreciate the original issue, you provided a solution that has been repeatedly shot down (I think it gets asked almost every year in Santa Zulg) as it is very much part of the design of shapeshifters.