Quote Originally Posted by Steve Ashton View Post
There is another way to check the listed information of our members. We have a member's list.

Look up near the top of this page and you will find a dark blue navigation bar. See "Community" near the middle? Pull down that menu and you will see the member's list.

In the Members list there are columns for the username, (a current status if any), the member's home page, their join date, date they last logged on and the total no. of Posts.

You can also see their Avatar, profile picture and birthday.

For any more details you would need to click on the person's name to go to their full profile.

But as I work with our member's list on a daily basis I can tell you that the vast majority of our members choose not to list any personal information. As has been stated above many people do not want their personal info on the web. I can't blame women for this and many of our young members are so used to being shielded behind a username and avatar that they feel strange listing a real name or posting a pic showing their face. That is just a fact in the world today.

But I agree with the idea. Every new member since I took over the forum has received a personal welcome PM from me. In that message I ask them to fill out their profile as much as they are comfortable with. Very few do. So creating another list of members would probably do little good to meet the concept presented here.

Sorry.


Totally understand and respect the overall decision. I would like to make it clear to everyone, just incase they werent sure, that I meant for it to be optional for members to add themselves to the giant list (skynet). I don't want everyone to get the wrong impression