User Profiles

I wish I could answer your question. Instead, I'm expanding on it. As a new member, how do I create a profile? I have no idea...

Joslin Dee said:

I wish I could answer your question. Instead, I'm expanding on it. As a new member, how do I create a profile? I have no idea...

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Go to your User CP (click the link on the bar at the top of the page). Once there, look over to the left and you will see some items such as Edit Your Details. You can then go and add whatever you want to your profile.

If you need help, come back and we'll step you through it in more detail.

Yep, gonna second Puma's comment. The user profiles seem un user friendly now. I also like to check out someone's profile who I do not know before making a comment.

Don't respond if you don't feel comfortable responding.

But, speaking as someone who has been stalked, it's not our business or our right to know anything anyone else isn't comfortable telling us--and anyone else who Googles.

That's why there are privacy settings.

That's why, even though my posts are tied to my actual name and identity, we don't require that of anyone.

Most members do not connect their online identity with their legal name.

Keep in mind that with over 20K members, roughly half of whom are genuinely active in terms of logging in regularly, we have minors, people in prison and other sorts of institutions, people with dangerous violent stalkers, and people who are far too well known to be comfortable enough to relax and be themselves.
in and of itself, any way, and in some cases, I'm fairly sure, with 20K of members, it is emphatically not true.

It's all just pixels.

I'm not exactly sure why Puma wants to see a complete profile, but I do wish that if people aren't going to put their location in their profile, that they would state what market they're talking about when they ask certain questions (formatting, standard ways of doing things, certain punctuation conventions, etc.). A lot of times the answer will vary depending on whether they talking about the US or the UK or elsewhere. Sometimes I know where someone is located from their other posts, sometimes I can make an educated guess because of their spelling or wording, and sometimes I just put a little disclaimer in my reply (". . . this assumes you're submitting this in the US, it could be different if you are in the UK . . . "). It's probably too much to hope for however.

MacAllister said:

You can always just ask where they're planning to sub it.

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Yep. I've learned to sometimes ask that before going any further.

I have seen cases whether someone went to some trouble to answer a question only to discover a few posts later that none of it applied to the original poster.

On the other hand, I have seen people try to answer a question without being aware that there was a different way of doing something in, say, the UK (seems like most of these are related to punctuation, or which word form is preferred).

Oh, well . . . we'll muddle through it . . .

My 0.02€

I don't think it is necessary to know where people write from. I think it is just out of curiosity, for if you write from Tennessee or Out on a limb or under your desk does't make any difference.
On AW, who writes a lot tends to reveal a bit more of himself time after time, so sooner or later you will know or, you can always ask (DITTO)

alleycat said:

...sometimes I can make an educated guess because of their spelling or wording...

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Uh... Yeeeah. I use US spelling when I'm writing something set in the US, UK spelling when I'm writing a UK setting, and my very own kind of gobbledygook when I'm writing about anywhere else. My spelling sucks when I'm typing fast as well, so I can see that confusing people.

I do have my location displayed under my avatar, so just shake your head and tut when I spell something funky.

Maybe I am not talking about the same stuff you guys are. When I set up my user profile I only put what I was comfortable putting out in public. I absolutely do not want anyone's email or personal info available to me. I just meant the little profile section where AW asks those silly questions. How people answer those questions is enlightening about who they are. The times when people do choose to give their age or gender is also helpful. In no way am I suggesting that personal information be in the public profile. Just the inoccuous stuff that helps us all get a little sense of the personality.