Make all active profiles public

[Ajdin]

So I was thinking about this...
I personally don't really see a reason for a member to hide his profile.

What do you guys think about making all profiles public and removing the option to private it.

 

[Blowns]

Just go ahead and delete my profile if you do this

 

[Devon]

So we simply remove privacy so people can see past usernames? What's the point in that? Are we becoming NameMc? Are we going to start sniping names?

It seems like at this point we're arguing whether or not people should be able to see past usernames. There is no harm in this, and I believe that you will have a very tough time finding something negative about this. Once you come up with a good reason, feel free to reply. I don't see a reason why I shouldn't be able to view past usernames.

 

[montyburly]

It seems like at this point we're arguing whether or not people should be able to see past usernames. There is no harm in this, and I believe that you will have a very tough time finding something negative about this. Once you come up with a good reason, feel free to reply. I don't see a reason why I shouldn't be able to view past usernames.

I think we should be able to see them too, just not at the cost of removing someone's privacy. There has to be other ways to go about showing past usernames.

 

[Ajdin]

Ah, well isn't that just a compromise to this? If nobody can comment is there really a purpose in viewing the profile?

That's exactly my point.

People are bugged about the 'Recent activity' it seems but they really shouldn't have much to hide.

 

[tjrgg]

The fact that this is such a big discussion is disappointing to me alone.

The argument I'm hearing those that agree with this suggestion making is that they want to review people's profiles before they deal with them. If that's the case and the user has their profile private, you have two options.
a) Ask them to allow you to view it. There's an option to allow people that you follow to view your profile. So, the user in question could follow you and allow that person to view their profile, while restricting profile viewing to others.
b) Don't deal with them if profile viewing is that important to you.

This is being turned into a really big deal when it doesn't have to be. I personally think it's fine as is. If people want to keep their profile private, let them. I believe it's their right to do so. It's up to you as a buyer/seller to decide if you want to deal with that user as a result.

My argument is don't change stuff for the sake of changing it. Everyone agreeing with this suggestion and arguing for it has their profile public and of course they want to be able to see everyone else's. It's not their choice. It's up to the user. Leave it up to the user. Don't fuck around with our privacy. Don't be Facebook, please.

Thank you.

EDIT: I know there's nothing extremely personal on profiles, but honestly, I hate it when sites fuck around with settings like this when there's no reason for it. If I want my profile private, damnit, let it be private. This would be something that should have been implemented from the get go. It's not cool to be taking it away, in my opinion.

 

[Ivain]

All public, I don't think there is any reason to be private unless you are hiding something.

Why not give us all access to your PC then?
Nothing to hide, I hope?
Point is, it should always be a choice whether or not to have one's profile private or public. the "you have nothing to hide, right?" argument is void for any number of reasons. There is 0 reason for someone to be forced to make their profile public. throw your reasons at me if you wish, I'll debunk them all.[DOUBLEPOST=1462443673][/DOUBLEPOST]

It seems like at this point we're arguing whether or not people should be able to see past usernames. There is no harm in this, and I believe that you will have a very tough time finding something negative about this. Once you come up with a good reason, feel free to reply. I don't see a reason why I shouldn't be able to view past usernames.

I dont want the choice taken away from me, period. There is no solid argument FOR forcing people to have a public profile. The burden of proof is on the side that wants to force it, since it's proposing to make a change to the status quo.[DOUBLEPOST=1462443831][/DOUBLEPOST]Ajdin you see no reason to forcefully make profiles public. I and a lot of others don't see a reason to do it. You're proposing a change to the status quo, therefore the burden of proof on whether it is worth it lies on your side. if nobody can come up with a convincing argument to change it, it should not change[DOUBLEPOST=1462443903][/DOUBLEPOST]

Profiles being public aren't really a threat to privacy, considering everyone's posts are public. I think enabling privacy like this just perpetuates toxic members of the community to continue shetposting & trashing threads *cough* butt buddies of mcm *cough*

And what of those that are not part of the toxic club? Like me? I see no reason to make it public, period.[DOUBLEPOST=1462444027][/DOUBLEPOST]

I'm saying that they can limit their profile so that someone can't post on it.

I want to be able to limit my profile too, without being a scammer. Why? because toxic retards are a thing, and I do not wish to wait for staff to delete bullshit posts from my profile. Such as the idiot that keeps accusing me of being an alt of Tri.
Or other random shiz.[DOUBLEPOST=1462444119][/DOUBLEPOST]

If this happens, you can easily report it to a staff member.

While that in theory makes sense, the amount of time it takes for staff to react is too long by practice. It cannot be expected from staff that they respond to reports like that within the hour. I do not want to be forced to wait on staff, who have better things to do, to remove bullshit posts from my profile.

If the right to delete posts from one's profile is removed, we might as well implement the trade feedback system again, since staff will be about as busy.[DOUBLEPOST=1462444242][/DOUBLEPOST]

I don't get it though. What part of it don't you want public? Your recent posts are searchable, you can disable people posting on your profile, what else would you possibly want hidden?

Why would you want it to be public? I still have not seen a convincing argument beyond the "scammers could hide devouches", which is similar in merit (though of a completely different order of magnitude) as the "terrorists could hide their plans" argument for removing privacy by governments.

 

[Shattered]

This is a dumb feature added to Xenforo...
If you don't want people to see something, you obviously don't make it your profile picture.

 

[Ivain]

You can certainly have my PC then xD I'm getting a new one anyways. If you want trashy FPS good luck with it. And there will still be nothing in their to hide

Oh, so you're fine with anybody accessing your PC at any time? Ok then, what's your remote access code?[DOUBLEPOST=1462447229][/DOUBLEPOST]

This is a dumb feature added to Xenforo...
If you don't want people to see something, you obviously don't make it your profile picture.

this is not about profile pictures...

 

[Shattered]

this is not about profile pictures...

Maybe the contact information,
but still if you dont want people to see something, you obviously dont post it to the internet.

 

[Ivain]

Maybe the contact information,
but still if you dont want people to see something, you obviously dont post it to the internet.

there are parts of the internet that are supposed to be private, such as online banking, email servers etc.
Anyway, I have yet to see a reason why the profiles SHOULD be forced public. What is there for people to hide on their profile that should make it public?
Why not let it remain as it is? that's something that has not been made abundantly clear in this thread. What does the community gain by making profiles public? Anyone can already view the posts on my profile, otherwise they would not be able to comment on them. so why bother with this change?

 

[Renovix]

I personally think there is no reason to make profiles public. People can hide their profiles of they'd like... The people who need to see it can do that anyway, with their permissions and all.

Also, there really shouldn't be anything to hide - but it's fine if they don't want their profiles seen. As long as they aren't hiding something, what is the problem?

I'm fine with everyone seeing my profile, except guests who aren't registered. These viewers could be either malicious or my family members - neither of which I want to see my profile.

 

[Gruss]

You can just hide the personal information under your profile settings.

Usually, when I am looking to see whether a person is trustworthy or not, I take a look at how many vouches/good reviews they have on their profile. - I'm pretty sure a lot of you do the same

 

[MrAniman2]

Completely agree!

I don't care much about past usernames but it's totally wrong if i cannot access users post history... This is market place and i should be able to get some insight in person with who i'll be doing business. And asking to get access to view profile clearly shows lack of confidence and in most cases people will not do that. Not to mention that from past posts and his 'profile wall' you can get a lot of vital information about the person which will directly impact the way you communicate with him...for example does he seems to be mature, can he be trustworthy, is he serious about what he does or is he immature and likes to post useless spam comments etc.

There are no extremely private information displayed on profile then why it needs to be private???

 

[SoldierAlex]

No one should be forced out of their privacy. I know people who have been doxed by other users just digging through anything they can find on someone else's profile on here. Ajdin I don't know why you would possibly want users to be put at risk like this.