Author Topic: Your Location --a Perennial Gripe of Mine (Read 3725 times)

230RN · « **on:** March 17, 2020, 01:49:01 PM »

With special attention to the Virus threads:

Where is "around here?" And which is "my State?"

A lot of times this can be known by personal familiarity with the poster and sometimes from the person's profile, but please don't assume your readers world-wide are mind readers, too. Save us the research, please.

Same thing with the gas prices thread.

We don't need to see a birth certificate or verify your driver's license, or capture your social security number, but an included up-front general location would sometimes be helpful.

Terry

Hawkmoon · « **Reply #1 on:** March 17, 2020, 01:52:37 PM »

Some of us (at least one of us, anyway) write "my state" specifically so as NOT to divulge a specific location.

The location is blank in my profile for the same reason. Yours, on the other hand, lists a place that I can't find on any may ("COMMIERADO"), so that's not functionally any different from leaving it blank.

K Frame · « **Reply #2 on:** March 17, 2020, 01:53:53 PM »

Quote from: Hawkmoon on March 17, 2020, 01:52:37 PM

Some of us (at least one of us, anyway) write "my state" specifically so as NOT to divulge a specific location.

Like your residence in a perpetual state of excess is a surprise to anyone...

fifth_column · « **Reply #3 on:** March 17, 2020, 01:55:19 PM »

Quote from: 230RN on March 17, 2020, 01:49:01 PM

Where is "around here?" And which is "my State?"

A lot of times this can be known by personal familiarity with the poster and sometimes from the person's profile, but please don't assume your readers are mind readers, too. Save us the research, please.

Same thing with the gas price thread.

We don't need to see a birth certificate or verify your driver's license, or capture your social security number, but an included ip-front general location would sometimes be helpful.

Terry

If everybody did as you ask you wouldn't be able to gripe about it . . .

Tim
State of Confusion (which also describes my "around here.")

Hawkmoon · « **Reply #4 on:** March 17, 2020, 01:55:59 PM »

Quote from: Mike Irwin on March 17, 2020, 01:53:53 PM

Like your residence in a perpetual state of excess is a surprise to anyone...

A perpetual state of chaos is probably closer to the truth. I'm too poor to indulge in much excess of any kind.

230RN · « **Reply #5 on:** March 17, 2020, 01:59:15 PM »

"Some of us (at least one of us, anyway) write "my state" specifically so as NOT to divulge a specific location."

Oh, as if eliminating 49 states is really going to allow "them" to track you down or stalk your ass.

Get real.

If you're going to post "information," the "information" may be useless without some geographical tag, so don't bother posting useless "information." As I say, we don't need your SSN and street address to nail down "There were 147 cases in my State."

Jeeze.

"Yours, on the other hand, lists a place that I can't find on any may ("COMMIERADO"), so that's not functionally any different from leaving it blank."

And of course you couldn't find COMMIERADO on any may [sic: "map"] since it's "COmmierado," not COMMIERADO.

Terry

Kingcreek · « **Reply #6 on:** March 17, 2020, 02:28:06 PM »

It’s right there in my profile info.
If I think it’s relevant to be more specific I state my state in the post.
One of these days I am going to flee Illinois and live like a gypsy in a conversion van for a couple years.

Ben · « **Reply #7 on:** March 17, 2020, 02:34:06 PM »

Gas prices around here are still $2.60. I wish they'd drop down to what they are the next state over.

BobR · « **Reply #8 on:** March 17, 2020, 02:36:45 PM »

Quote from: Ben on March 17, 2020, 02:34:06 PM

Gas prices around here are still $2.60. I wish they'd drop down to what they are the next state over.

That's how I feel, that state to the east of us always has lower gas/diesel prices but unless I am there for something else it is too far to drive just for fuel.

bob

Hawkmoon · « **Reply #9 on:** March 17, 2020, 02:40:22 PM »

Quote from: 230RN on March 17, 2020, 01:59:15 PM

"Yours, on the other hand, lists a place that I can't find on any may ("COMMIERADO"), so that's not functionally any different from leaving it blank."

And of course you couldn't find COMMIERADO on any may [sic: "map"] since it's "COmmierado," not COMMIERADO.

Who gets to inform Terry that COMMIERADO was a cut-and-paste from his forum profile?

charby · « **Reply #10 on:** March 17, 2020, 02:43:14 PM »

Quote from: Hawkmoon on March 17, 2020, 01:52:37 PM

Some of us (at least one of us, anyway) write "my state" specifically so as NOT to divulge a specific location.

The location is blank in my profile for the same reason. Yours, on the other hand, lists a place that I can't find on any may ("COMMIERADO"), so that's not functionally any different from leaving it blank.

IP tracking lets me know where you're at.

Ben · « **Reply #11 on:** March 17, 2020, 02:44:47 PM »

Quote from: charby on March 17, 2020, 02:43:14 PM

IP tracking lets me know where you're at.

VPN, yo. Sure is humid here in Vietnam today.

charby · « **Reply #12 on:** March 17, 2020, 02:46:10 PM »

Quote from: Ben on March 17, 2020, 02:44:47 PM

VPN, yo. Sure is humid here in Vietnam today.

Not your IP, your VPN sucks.

Kingcreek · « **Reply #13 on:** March 17, 2020, 03:28:58 PM »

I just realized location no longer shows on the post

JN01 · « **Reply #14 on:** March 17, 2020, 03:32:59 PM »

I live in Springfield, in the state where Homer and Marge are from.

Ben · « **Reply #15 on:** March 17, 2020, 03:38:49 PM »

Quote from: charby on March 17, 2020, 02:46:10 PM

Not your IP, your VPN sucks.

Your IT skills suck. My VPN is off.

Kingcreek · « **Reply #16 on:** March 17, 2020, 04:31:58 PM »

I live smack dab in the center of my own little universe.

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #17 on:** March 17, 2020, 04:48:37 PM »

Terry is correct.

MechAg94 · « **Reply #18 on:** March 17, 2020, 05:00:36 PM »

When I mention Texas, people complain about that half the time so I don't see that it matters.

Ben · « **Reply #19 on:** March 17, 2020, 05:48:39 PM »

Quote from: fistful on March 17, 2020, 04:48:37 PM

Terry is correct.

Says the guy who got doxxed by Paddy McRiley.

Jim147 · « **Reply #20 on:** March 17, 2020, 05:53:26 PM »

I need to edit my location to in Terry's head.

p12 · « **Reply #21 on:** March 17, 2020, 06:53:47 PM »

I’m in Tejas. Does that help?

RoadKingLarry · « **Reply #22 on:** March 17, 2020, 07:13:49 PM »

Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory.

230RN · « **Reply #23 on:** March 17, 2020, 07:51:20 PM »

"It’s right there in my profile info."

Yeahbut. A stream of posts declaring their situation without their up front location is kind of minimally informative if you have to look everyone up. That was my main point.

Hawkmoon, I thought I changed that a while ago, so I tried again today, still didn't work. Turns out you have to click the change button to effect a change. That button is actually off my screen since I'm using a high magnification on IE for readability, so I didn't see it.

So you're right, but I don't think "COMMIERADO" is so hard to interpret. Besides, my point is that in threads like the virus and the gas ones, people trying to track where the changes are ought to be able to do it from right there in the individual post, so don't change the subject. COMMIERADO is more like someone saying they're from Tejas... which I see someond did. Now was that so hard?

I made my point, take it or leave it, that communication should be made easy for the communicatee, but it was fun seeing the responses.

Oh, thanks, fistful.

Terry

Doggy Daddy · « **Reply #24 on:** March 17, 2020, 08:31:08 PM »

230RN. It's Fistful approved.

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