Category: Zone BBS Suggestions and Feedback
I believe we should all have to include some information about ourselves, aka gender, and possibly a little information, so let's see where this gets us.
I agree I think that profiles should be filled out, before anything else. Like what was said on QNs. People have to fill out profiles before they can send QNs or anything.
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yes they do or what's the point in talking to them?
i have to agree with this one. this place is an online community after all. i realise that some people are very private and don't really want to say much about themselves but at least lets have the basics, age sex etc.
it is very frustrating looking at somebodies profile just to find that there's nothing in it. all that said i strongly doubt that any changes will be made re profiles so i guess we're just going to have to deal with it.
Just adding my vote. I'm in full accord.
I agree! If I remember correctly this was required on hotbraille back in the day and it annoyed my mom who made an account to communicate with me while I was in college but had e-mail problemes. Anyway you can still be relatively privite with what you put in there but having genter and maybe and age range such as 18-25 or something like that would be a good thing to have.
I agree totally.
I'm opposed to any modifications which forces a user to take a specific action before they can gain access to a particular portion of the site. None of that profile information is manditory. If the user in question wishes to divulge information about him/herself, they may do so. But their decision not to do so should not bar them from any venu on the site.
hmmm, wraith doesn't seem to agree with whatever I say, ah well, not really that bad, but my position is stil the same
i kinda agree with wraith but i also agree with yankee i think the gender should be mandetory and the age but thats it
That's not true, Yankee. I've agreed with a few posts that you have made. I just don't elect to post on each one (after all, I didn't have much to contribute, just because I agreed).
hmmm, and here i was thinking that you just were an ass to whatever I say
I agree, and just can't help myself. If there's an online profile, I fill it in. LOL. So, Zoners, let's populate them profiles!
Cheers,
-Dave
I agree with Yankee. If I see a new name logged on and want to say hi, I would like to first find out a littel bit about the person. At least where they live (even just country would be better than no info), gender, and age range. If they don't want to tell a little more about themselves at the bottom then okay.
I can see this one from both sides. It's annoying when you click on a profile, and there's nothing filled out (no age, gender, or location). But I don't think it should be a requirement. A person should have the right to give as much or as little information about themselves as they want to.
I totally agree with you yankee. It would be nice to know a little bit about the person and would also like to know if they were male or female. It would also help with starting up conversations with them as well. Other than that it is totally up to them whether they put where they live, their messengers, and etc.
I'm with wraith on this. While I agree that it is incredibly annoying to click on someone's profile and find they haven't bothered to fill it in, this site does advocate freedom of speech, and therefore people should be allowed to choose whether they wish to share information about themselves with people. I do think that people should be encouraged to fill out their profiles, but I think that ultimately, it is their choice. This isn't a dating agency, (although one might be forgiven for thinking so sometimes *grins*) or an exclusive club where people need to know as much about you as possible before deciding whether to talk to you, this is a diverse community, and at the end of the day, if you won't talk to someone because you don't have any info on them already, that is your choice, just as much as it is the choice of that person not to tell the world about themselves :)
Wel lbasically I agree with oyu but then you will have to refuse the membership until these forms are filled out. Lol. But basically I agree because sometimes it annoys me if I see an interesting username but no user information except maybe the location.
I agree with yankee, for once in my life, to an extent. Since age is required now do to U.S. laws, require it to be shown. Very easy to do/change. Also, require gender to be shown. Make it ask when he/she logs in the next time. Location goes a little far, that I can understand why a person does not want to show due to privacy risks. But wether a person is male/female and 18 or 55, does not put them at risk and lets me know if I want to talk to him/her. So my vote is for change.
I agree that gender, age, and country should be put in profiles, but that is about it really. Everything else doesn't have to be required, and can be put at will.
My vote is on the side of, "I still say freedom of speech, freedom of choice." Just because a person were to fill in all the blanks does not necessarily mean they are giving honest answers. I would prefer though that what a person chooses to say be that which is truthful. Like who is to say that a 120 year old man who lives on Mars would not sign in as a 21 year old girl living on Venus?? ...earth, Mars, Venus, does it REALLY matter??
even if it's not all true, it'd be nice to at least know where a person stands on themselves, the only thing I don't have filled out is my birth year, and fuck it, I'll go handle that now. I stil stand at the point that it should be manditory to give "some" information
If you don't fill your profile out who's gonna stop you? Some don't feel like putting content in their profile about themselves. I put a tiny blurb about myself in my profile. But the rest of my profile is about my website. Some people opt to either talk about their sites, themselves or why they chose their screen names. It's not something that should be enforced. Remember some people want private lives and have the right to chose not to fill one out.
I know that some people would at least like to know if a person is male or female. It would save some embarssing moments I can tell you.
Although I'd prefer to know more about others when I read their profiles, I think only the country and if not a specific age, maybe an age range thing or something, should be manditory. But at the same time, I know people have the right not to put anything in their profiles if they don't want to. As much as I'd prefer people to have info so that it'd be easier to know say, how to start off a conversation based on location or common interests, it is up to the person )and their choice) whether or not they want to add info and which info they choose to add. It should really be encouraged that people fill out their profiles, but I don't think it could or should be manditory.