Category: the Rant Board
I have no idea if anyone has made a topic of this already but if so I'm doing it anyways. Don't you just hate looking in peoples profiles and their blank. I mean come on at least specify whether your a woman or a guy and write some sort of something about yourself so know where to start a conversation. I can careless about the birthday, location, or any kind of the contact information. That I can understand if you don't want anyone knowing that. What do you all think?
Well, I have to agree that blank profiles are annoying. Never the less, it completely comes down to the choice of the individual in question. Of course it could just be that people with blank profiles haven't come here to make friends in the first place. I know that some show up on this site for the games and nothing else. So while it can be frustrating to check somebody's text profile hoping to gleme some interesting information just to be faced with an empty void, I'm afraid it's just something that we'll have to deal with.
Really, I agree with both of you. However, newbies may not even know how to update their profile, or that they have a profile. It would be nice if the admins had some kind of reminder for the first ten logons that reminded someone to update their profile. After that, it's up to the user. No one says you have to come here to get to know someone else, it's just so much fun. When I first came here it was for the games and that's all. But you guys grew on me, kind of like a fungus <smile>.
its anoying + frustrating + irritating to view on any blank profile. it is okay not filling any personal information like birthday and etc, just like what other have said, but it will be great to see the individual introducing itself.
agree with dan on this one
I'd have to agree that blank profiles are a pet peve of mine as well, though I come on here more to meet people than anything else.
While I find them to get my curiosity, I believe it's up to the person and what they want to write and what they feel is confortable about putting in their profile. If they don't feel that they want to share too much that is their right and that's understandable to me.
Troy
I agree that it is annoying, especially if someone with a blank profile says hi to me with a qn, and when I go to find out something about them, there is nothing there. It's easier to start a conversation if you know if you have anything in common with someone. But I also agree that it is a matter of personal choice, and like Dan said, there are people here who don't come to socialize. And finally, I agree with Bob; having reminders for the first 10 log ins for new subscribers would be a good idea. I don't remember having any trouble filling out my profile when I joined, but maybe some people do.
I'd have to concur with Harp, it's entirely up to the individual.
However, why fill out half the profile, and not all of it?
Well Crystal Rain you know we got them lazy fuckers around here who only do a half ass job on things but yeah if your only going to fill out half of the profile then why even bother filling it out at all.
Oh yes Harp I totally forgot about people coming on here for the games. Then again I came here for the games at first then you all corrupted me via the drama on here, damn you all. lol jkjk I came here for friends to and made quite a few.
I think gender should have to be visible and specified just like user names and ids because i am sick of referring to people as it instead of there gender
It's not worth clicking on a profile and wanting to view it, but then realizing that it's blank, kind of a waste of time I think.
The ones that I find kind of funny are the ones where the person has given their date of birth but not specified male or female. I mean date of birth is more personal than gender so why bother?
I wouldn't let something so meaningless annoy me so much.
It annoys me, because i'm the kind of person who likes to look at a profile before I bother talking to someone, to see if i even think they're interesting, but i think i've made some good friends here who i have a lot in common with and that's great.
I agree that these blank profiles are annoying but ... what can you do against it? Probably some people just forget it all the time. Maybe ... there should be a thing that reminds them?
I agree with ya there Ines
Hey all, I realize people want their privacy when they fill out their profiles but they have to think of other people because alot of people like to read them. I almost think that it should be required that everyone complete their profile. It is really anoying to look at an incomplethe profile. I think the reason some people don't complete their profiles is because of lazyness.
Well I just want to take the time and tell each and every one of that I appreciate all the opinions, ideas, or whot not on this topic. Keep'em flying.
So I can understand why some people get annoyed with blank profiles. But making it a requirement to fill out our entire profile would be a lil bit extreme. It's all up to personal preference, and that's the way it should be.
My god it's just a profile! LOL People have a right to fill or not to fill theirs out. And some prefer to keep some things in their general section (age/location) private. Harp's right some come for the games and not the rest. Some prefer to just be left alone then others. Big fuss over nothin.
Well, certainly I do understand the frustration with blank profiles. It is my natural curiosity i guess but I like to know a little about the people I'm dealing with. Never the less I do completely understand the desire for privacy and I can't see any reason why filling out profiles should be a manditory requirement of being a member of this sight. Also I should add that while others on here have expressed a similar sense of frustration, I think most have also agreed that things are right the way that they are now.
After all, in as much as we all seem agreed on the fact that people have the right to put as little or as much as they wish in their profiles, equally people have the right to bemoan the lack of substance in some profiles on this rant board. That's what it's for after all. *Smiles*
yep totally agree with dan! :)
well, mostly i don't care whether people fill in a profile or not, but i think if they're going to qn people who have never talked to them before, i think they should. if you don't qn me, and i don't qn you and we've never talked, then you have the right not to fill in your profile if you don't want to, but if you qn me, i'd rather know who or what is talking to me.
wonderwoman
Damn people are still posting to this. I thought it died.
Yeh, I hate blank profiles too. Quite annoying. I have to agree that it is up to the user to update there profiles. At first, I came for the games, but later on, I was loving the zone even more!
that's the same with most new members, learn to like it as the time goes on. i do try and talk to new members, but it takes them a while to respond sometimes, if they are still getting the hang of it. i talk to someone if i like the look of the username