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Re: Profile expansion

Anonymous — Tue, 4 May 2010 00:23:09 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 05/04/2010 04:23

I was wondering if you could add the Texas (US state) flag to the nationality options. We're kind of our own thing 😄 but for reals

Re: Profile expansion

badfaith — Sat, 2 Jan 2010 17:09:04 GMT

Author: badfaith

Posted: 01/02/2010 22:09

...incidentally, today: Diameter- 1.25 ins, Length: 5 ins (approx)

he he he.

Re: Profile expansion

albummaster — Sat, 2 Jan 2010 17:01:14 GMT

Author: albummaster

Posted: 01/02/2010 22:01

yes, we´ve got to be a bit careful, so these would be optional fields for those people that want to fill them out and these are nothing more than the old 'age/sex/location' you used to find on chatrooms. It´s a quick way of getting the essentials of who you are communicating with.

We could also add favourite book/film/painting/sculpture/game/colour/girl/guy field(s) as well but these questions seem to be more diffcult to decide upon and some people are going to be really into paintings and others more into computer games etc, so the difficult thing is trying to find a common ground where we don´t have to ask a hundred questions to find out something interesting.

Re: Profile expansion

badfaith — Sat, 2 Jan 2010 16:48:47 GMT

Author: badfaith

Posted: 01/02/2010 21:48

RFNAPLES wrote:

Gender might be a useful profile modification.

It is difficult, 1234567890 said that birthday might encourage ageism... and the same could be said of gender encouraging sexism, or if the two were taken together (god forbid!)- possible predation.

I'd like to have a grasp of who it is I'm talking to, but not at the expense of exposing them to potential discrimination or harassment.

I think I like the ideas floated about tastes better...I think they tell you more about a person that really matters.

Re: Profile expansion

RFNAPLES — Sat, 2 Jan 2010 15:45:51 GMT

Author: RFNAPLES

Posted: 01/02/2010 20:45

Agree on the country drop down list but would eliminate the location open list then or specify city or state.

Re: Profile expansion

albummaster — Sat, 2 Jan 2010 15:13:51 GMT

Author: albummaster

Posted: 01/02/2010 20:13

Not everybody uses the current location field properly, we will probably keep it, but also add a drop-down list of countries to pick from. e.g. If somebody writes ´my bedroom´as their location they can also pick 'Canada' as their country. We would then be able to compile charts for each country etc which might be quite interesting to see, or if you wanted to see an overall chart just taking into account American opinion you could do that too...

Re: Profile expansion

RFNAPLES — Sat, 2 Jan 2010 14:37:24 GMT

Author: RFNAPLES

Posted: 01/02/2010 19:37

albummaster wrote:

yes, I agree. I think we´ll add gender, birthday and country as three extra optional fields to the user profiles This should be enough (for the time being), to get some idea of where people are coming from with their charts, ratings, comments etc. We can always add more at a later date, if something else is needed.

What is the difference between the current profile field Location and the proposed Country?

Re: Profile expansion

albummaster — Sat, 2 Jan 2010 13:52:54 GMT

Author: albummaster

Posted: 01/02/2010 18:52

yes, I agree. I think we´ll add gender, birthday and country as three extra optional fields to the user profiles This should be enough (for the time being), to get some idea of where people are coming from with their charts, ratings, comments etc. We can always add more at a later date, if something else is needed.

Re: Profile expansion

RFNAPLES — Sat, 2 Jan 2010 10:42:53 GMT

Author: RFNAPLES

Posted: 01/02/2010 15:42

Gender might be a useful profile modification.

Re: Profile expansion

Anonymous — Sat, 2 Jan 2010 10:34:51 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 01/02/2010 15:34

I like the birthday idea. As for the other questions, we're all here because we love a certain media (music) and that likely carries over to literature, film, and art (and videogames maybe?); so, I suggest we add the birthday question along with one entry allowed for favorite film, favorite artwork, favorite piece of literature, and favorite videogame. If you're adamant about keeping it to three added questions though, I would go with the birthday, film and art because those two media seem to be more tied to popular music than literature or videogames (hopefully those would be added later). Again though, only one entry allowed for each question

Re: Profile expansion

RFNAPLES — Fri, 1 Jan 2010 08:32:25 GMT

Author: RFNAPLES

Posted: 01/01/2010 13:32

Regarding Birthday and all other profile information: It is OPTIONAL. If you don't want to provide it don't.

Re: Profile expansion

badfaith — Fri, 1 Jan 2010 07:58:06 GMT

Author: badfaith

Posted: 01/01/2010 12:58

Actually, that's a good point... I was thinking that the main concern was the advantages of having an idea of who you are talking to weighed against providing too much info for a hacker type of some sort- but there is also that personal safety aspect- nefarious groomer types and other loathesome characters.... perhaps any such additions should carry a warning ( I know, everyone is probably aware of all this in this day and age, but the unwary continue to feature in the news too often, and a friendly reminder wouldn't hurt I suppose)

... which is why I think the kind of info provided needs further discussion and consensus.

Re: Profile expansion

Richie Hunt — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 09:50:44 GMT

Author: Richie Hunt

Posted: 12/31/2009 14:50

well that leaves us with just 2 questions...

my suggestions are

1. (a drop down box to select the answer to...) if you are one of the 7 dwarfs which one are you? or if you are of the female variety you can just select snow white.

2. Are you a lonely old crusty fart fronting as a sexy pimple faced computer geek teenager who loves 'world of warcraft' just to pick up chicks? (select from the following) a. Ugh, well um, how did urh, of course not! b. No, I hate peadophiles almost as much as i hate missing out on friday night drinks and infidelity. c. shall we goto jail now? d. Im only hot for Richie

Re: Profile expansion

badfaith — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 07:59:14 GMT

Author: badfaith

Posted: 12/31/2009 12:59

...and the coffee machine?

Re: Profile expansion

albummaster — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:22:14 GMT

Author: albummaster

Posted: 12/30/2009 21:22

agreed - I think how RFNAPLES originally suggested would be the way to do it. We'll leave the year of birth as optional (in fact, the whole field will be optional for those people that want to fill it out.)

Re: Profile expansion

1234567890 — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:10:35 GMT

Author: 1234567890

Posted: 12/30/2009 21:10

I do like the birthday aspect. Just for the sake of well wishing among friends or acquaintances. Not necessarily year, that could encourage agism.

Re: Profile expansion

badfaith — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 08:16:13 GMT

Author: badfaith

Posted: 12/30/2009 13:16

Wow... I didn't think you'd go for that, but hey, groovy!

I think the questions should be relevant to the site, so as Naples said, age or birthday ( perhaps just birth-year so as not to be too specific or unsound in the personal security stakes), this and other such questions show why people like a certain kind of music, and a general feel of cultural background.

The aim would be to be illuminating without being intrusive.

...so perhaps the "interests" section would be the most useful in this regard- and could be expanded and made more specific such as, um, favourite books, authors, films, heroes ( my mind is a blank now I've been put on the spot!) This would warrant further discussion to gauge peoples feelings about it.

Re: Profile expansion

RFNAPLES — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 09:13:02 GMT

Author: RFNAPLES

Posted: 12/29/2009 14:13

Birthday: Your birthday. This information is used for displaying your username in the Birthday section of the Board Index. If year is specified, your age will be displayed in your profile.

Re: Profile expansion

albummaster — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 08:28:49 GMT

Author: albummaster

Posted: 12/29/2009 13:28

badfaith wrote:

Hello Albummaster!

... I believe I've discovered a new way to burden you with work!

There have been threads started in the forums about "How old are you?" favourite films etc.

I think out of a desire to know who people are dealing with, so to speak. not so much to know everything about others on the site, but to understand where they are coming from, if you know what I mean.

Perhaps the profile section then could be expanded, to include these things like favourite film/s colour, starsign (?), favourite colour, time of day for a shit etc.

that way when you read a post by someone, all this could be taken into account with regard to their opinions on things, and mis- understandings may be avoided, and potential offence may be averted through placing those opinions in this context.

... Oh ,and while you're at it, how about 3D visuals, a Radio station that plays selections of those best ever albums while you're browsing or a playlist function, a coffee machine, pool table, and a buffett?

and if you could do it by Friday would be great!

Thank you.

😄

best time of day for a shit would certainly be useful to know when gauging user taste; also how about turd diameter and length, aroma, solid/liquid ratio ?

Yes, we could add some extra questions to the user profile which could act as a reference point when evaluating user taste, I think that's a good idea. If we could ask three extra questions, what would they be?

(We don't want to make the profilt questionnaire too long as it would put people off, so I think a maximum of three extra questions would be about the limit).

Profile expansion

badfaith — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 08:13:07 GMT

Author: badfaith

Posted: 12/28/2009 13:13

Hello Albummaster!

... I believe I've discovered a new way to burden you with work!

There have been threads started in the forums about "How old are you?" favourite films etc.

I think out of a desire to know who people are dealing with, so to speak. not so much to know everything about others on the site, but to understand where they are coming from, if you know what I mean.

Perhaps the profile section then could be expanded, to include these things like favourite film/s colour, starsign (?), favourite colour, time of day for a shit etc.

that way when you read a post by someone, all this could be taken into account with regard to their opinions on things, and mis- understandings may be avoided, and potential offence may be averted through placing those opinions in this context.

... Oh ,and while you're at it, how about 3D visuals, a Radio station that plays selections of those best ever albums while you're browsing or a playlist function, a coffee machine, pool table, and a buffett?

and if you could do it by Friday would be great!

Thank you.