Do you wonder about people who have their profile turned off?

[Shell Beau]

Discuss.

On edit the keyword is wonder, not necessarily suspect them!

[Dez]

1. They want total annonymity.

That's ok.. there's a lot of nuts everywhere.

[Shell Beau]

3. I can totally see that! But you probably give

more of yourself away in discussions!

[Wickerman]

2. nope n/t

[Lerkfish]

4. yes, but mainly because

I didn't think you could do it., and its usually someone spouting some RW talking point when I notice...it probably happens a lot more than that, but that's the only time I LOOK for a profile to see.

[Shell Beau]

5. Me too! Ha!

[Blue Diadem]

7. I've always had mine disabled,

but only recently have I seen the little head profile icon in my posts. I think maybe the last upgrade to the board added the profile icon to those of us who have it disabled.

[Shell Beau]

11. If you don't mind my asking, why

do you prefer to have it disabled?

[Blue Diadem]

14. because it's basically empty, so I thought why have it show.

At the time I wasn't aware that date of signing up and number of posts were listed there.

I just don't feel the profiles are that important. There have been several on here who were high-post members who were just playing games. I think most can tell a disrupter by their posts and eventually the game-players get caught.

[Shell Beau]

16. That is usually true.

But I just got a little suspicious yesterday about someone and when their profile was disabled, it only added to the suspicion. Not to say that people with a disabled profile are freepers!

[Blue Diadem]

26. I understand..I finally went back in and enabled my profile.

Just had to figure out how to do it.

I saw one yesterday too that only lasted 3 posts.

[Shell Beau]

29. I would have never checked your profile unless

you started talking some crazy talk. But glad to see you enabled it. You can give as much info as you like!

[Texasgal]

6. they are all freepers

and we should be wary of them!!!! MUWHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHA! :P

[StopTheMorans]

8. I agree

:thumbsup:

[El Fuego]

9. You can pretty much leave your profile empty, so what's the point?

They must be trying to make a statement. My personal experience and observation is that they are suspect.

[Shell Beau]

10. You can leave it empty or lie about the info.

And like I said, people reveal more about them during discussions! :shrug:

[AntiCoup2K4]

33. The Freeps are paranoid that "Libruls would be investigatin' us" ........

....through their profiles. Yet it doesn't bother them at all that Speedy Gonzales can access their records of checking out sheep pornos from the local library.

Go figure.....

[Atlas Mugged]

12. I only look at profiles when...

...I suspect a disruptor. If they seem to be aggressive and have a low post count, it explains everything and I just put them on "ignore".

[Shell Beau]

13. That is why I brought up the question.

Someone made me wonder yesterday, so I checked their profile, and no profile existed. It made me a little suspect. I wondered if I was the only one who did that.

[Atlas Mugged]

19. Oh, no, most of us do it

It's merely routine for me. I've rarely looked at the profiles of consistent posters with familiar names. Well, I've checked to see if a few were..ahem....single and/or gay.

[Shell Beau]

21. So, have you checked mine? Huh? Be honest...

:silly:

[Atlas Mugged]

28. Just now - for the first time!

I was kidding about the "single" thing. Though I have, on occasion, checked a few regular posters just to see if they'll admit to any substance abuse problems. But who hasn't.

[Shell Beau]

30. I don't give too much info on mine.

I had my city and state, but then I started getting kind of scared, so I removed it!

[Atlas Mugged]

34. Same here

I live in a Blue state (NY) but a very RED county. I'll continue to be cautious, of course.

[Shell Beau]

36. Well I live in a red state and a red county. But the county where

I work is blue!

[BikeWriter]

15. Yes, what are they up to?

[Shell Beau]

17. So I am not the only one who wonders?

[BikeWriter]

18. It irritates me they don't give you a clue whether they're man, woman...

alien from Mars or whatever.

[Shell Beau]

20. Yeah, you kind of like to know what you are talking to!

[BikeWriter]

22. Yes, I do, for sure. We have too many members to constantly...

remember which mentioned a husband, wife, or something else that indicated their gender, and most people appreciate at least a small clue to other's perspective on things.

[Shell Beau]

23. Yep, but I remember

that you are a big time animal lover like me!!!!!!!

[BikeWriter]

24. I've been into horses, birds, fish, and dogs most of my life. The cat...

foisted herself and the kitties off on me. :(

[Shell Beau]

25. Well they knew you would take good care of them!

[BikeWriter]

27. Speaking of which I have to check their food and water.

[Shell Beau]

31. That's a good (foster) daddy!

[BikeWriter]

32. They need to be making other plans soon, though. :-)

[Scout]

35. yes, I think they are kind of chickens...

you don't have to tell your life story, or reveal anything that is really personal unless you want to. Why not have a little something in them?

But on the other hand, I am always interested in how replies to a post might (and I suspect probably to a great extent they do) be influenced by gender and gender-related negative experiences.

[Shell Beau]

37. Exactly!

[orleans]

38. spies! they must be spies!!!

:sarcasm: :rofl:

[Nikia]

39. They could always include less information

When I first signed up for DU, I included everything in my profile including my real first and last name and city. Then I decide that I wanted to be anonymous so I took out that information.

[Nye Bevan]

40. No

but when someone has no avatar and no sig line it is hard to resist clicking on their profile to see if they have been banned!

[enigmatic]

41. Absolutely not

And I don't begrudge anybody that has their profile either locked or has no info. There are alot of nutcases on the internet just waiting to fuck w/ people who put info about themselves on profiles; I've seen it happen many, many times. And sadly, there are those who fuck w/ people simply because they don't agree w/ them on any number of things, and take it to frightening lengths.

It's not my job to decide who is and isn't disrupters here, it's the mods. I'll alert if somebody's obviously breaking rules here, but that's about it.