You know, I still don't trust people who hide their profiles.

[Robb]

Over the years I've found many people who seem to be here just to fan the flames have hidden their DU profiles. It's not a 100% give-away, or anything. But there's just something about people who hide them. Don't trust them like I should.

Maybe I'm just being silly, but it seems to me you don't put anything in your profile you don't want people to read. How hard is that?

[Callalily]

1. Yes, I too have always wondering

about the profile hiding thing. But what I'm really curious about is, those that hide gender, location, etc. and then they have a link to their MySpace with full blown pictures, locations, pictures of kids, work stuff, everything under the sun, etc.

Oh well, each to their own.

[Iggo]

2. Oh, that's it!

I'm gonna hide my profile! (Soon as I figure out where it is...lol.)

[NJCher]

3. the profiles are important

So often they are helpful in trying to figure out where a poster is coming from, both literally and figuratively.

Literally, for example, in a snowstorm thread about "who's getting pummeled this weekend." Posters tell about the weather and forget to say where they're posting from.

I think the reason posters hide them is because they are distrustful. They are probably paranoid about who might be gathering information on them.

Just a guess.



Cher

[sniffa]

4. As well you shouldn't

Hidden profiles are tip-offs to freeper trolls.

[Bossy Monkey]

5. Best profile comment ever

though I was expecting the profile to read "Female, Vladivostok, Rick Warren rules!"

[graywarrior]

6. They make my blood boil

They're spies. Cowards. Oh so mysterious lying fucks.

Just my take on them.

[Lucian]

7. I don't understand why it bothers people so much.

Maybe some people value their privacy online.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. My dear Robb!

I'm with you...

I try hard to not be judgmental, but it's difficult.

My hackles just come up when I see the profile's missing...

[SOteric]

9. I used to hide my profile

just because I hate to be pidgeon-holed. I don't like people to assume my position on abortion based on my gender. I don't like them to assume my interest in border-relations based on my geographic location. But I've been here long enough that people know me and all the potential pidgeon-holes anyway. So I went public.

And for the record, I've never been an instigator, flame-fanner, troll, freeper, etc.

[bmbmd]

10. I've noticed that often

a poster who bashes another state/region/point of view will have a hidden or incomplete profile.

[RandomThoughts]

11. I have were I live

And even where I go out and drink listed in my profile

:) that means you trust me. :hug:

:rofl:

[Orrex]

12. I hid my profile for a while while I was on the lam for moonshining

But after a few calls to the right people, it was no longer necessary.