08-29-2017, 05:06 AM | #1 |
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Please make location mandatory
Please make location mandatory. The problem is that a lot of people ask for help and some of the answers are specific to location. By knowing where someone is, it make helping out that much easier.
It would be really good if when someone was registering, that location has to be filled in to finish registering. |
08-29-2017, 06:42 AM | #2 |
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I agree it would be useful, and see some utility in making it a more prominent part of the signup process. However, I don't see any sense in making it compulsory.
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08-29-2017, 07:09 AM | #3 | |
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08-29-2017, 07:14 AM | #4 |
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I know you don't have to put in real information, but if its there and you have to put something in, more people will fill it in correctly. Then it make it easier if these people have a question where the answer is location specific.
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08-29-2017, 08:08 AM | #5 |
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Many people who join never ask location-specific questions. I see no reason whatsoever to force people to make a decision about whether to lie or tell the truth about something they may not be comfortable divulging.
I almost never glance at a member's location, myself, anyway. Same for their devices. |
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08-29-2017, 09:18 AM | #6 | |
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08-29-2017, 09:53 AM | #7 | |
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Let's say that I lived in Amsterdam. Would that be the capital of the Netherlands? Or that island near Spitsbergen, or in the Indian Ocean? Or maybe even in the US (California, Georgia, Idah, Misssouri, Montana, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas and Virigina all have an Amsterdam). Canada and South-Afrika could also be valid. Naturally, my town is known all over the world (from Japan to the US, they come here!) |
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08-29-2017, 10:17 AM | #8 |
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08-29-2017, 10:31 AM | #9 |
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Now, Tom, there are good people on both sides. But if they don't list their devices, how will you know where they stand in the great Kobo v. Kindle confrontation?
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08-29-2017, 10:34 AM | #10 |
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08-30-2017, 10:18 AM | #11 |
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But any place is real, If a site ask where I live, 99.9995% of the time I give a fake address. And there is enough Address Generators out there to fool most software.
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08-30-2017, 12:47 PM | #12 | |
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This information may or may not be limited to shopping, free samples, if you have children, if you drink and your credit score. When I called the post office, I was told put any first class mail return to sender. Person does not live here. Anything with name or current resident was mine. It took 6 months to get the crap to quit coming in. I called all the companies that sent catalogs. No I don't want wine or children's books or a ton of cheap party stuff. |
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08-31-2017, 08:40 AM | #13 |
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09-05-2017, 04:39 AM | #14 | |
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Turns out that's an actual postal code with house number! They get disconnected from phone, internet, gas, water, electricity every once in a while (people who don't want to play their bills give false addresses). As it is a corner house, the house now has another house number so, the problems have decreased (though it can take several years before the old address is gone from all databases...) |
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09-05-2017, 01:57 PM | #15 | |
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