Stork_III
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Well nearly 
a plea to all posters
- Thread starter Bosun Higgs
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Sans Bateau
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Anne will be chasing for you to return your form, so get it filled in and back ASAP!
If you want to look at the spline wear, I will be reinstalling the saildrive on Sat 5th March, so if you want to come along to Northney, I might be able to utilise another pair of hands! PM your mobile number.
(see another reason for knowing where peeps are!)
phantomlady
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And some of us are ladies.....
Lakesailor
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Well. You may be undone as well......
Lakesailor
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I've said that thrice already, but many of our forumites seem to have English as a second language.
dutyhog
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OK, I'll add some detail ...
OK, I'll add some detail ... but it doesn't necessarily mean that I know anything useful or appropriate, as the photo implies.
OK, I'll add some detail ... but it doesn't necessarily mean that I know anything useful or appropriate, as the photo implies.
dt4134
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I won't be updating my profile no matter how politely or rudely I'm asked. The forum is not a club bar it is the internet in the wild.
I don't like the rude posts you occasionally see demanding that someone fills in their profile, especially when it is directed at a newbie that might well be put off.
It is only rarely that a post has caused me to check someone's profile and even then it has been more curiosity than anything. Finding a blank profile has caused me no distress whatsoever.
Regardless of whether they have a completed profile or not I read their post on its merits. Whether they have a more cautious or less cautious attitude to putting personal data on the web is insignificant.
I don't like the rude posts you occasionally see demanding that someone fills in their profile, especially when it is directed at a newbie that might well be put off.
It is only rarely that a post has caused me to check someone's profile and even then it has been more curiosity than anything. Finding a blank profile has caused me no distress whatsoever.
Regardless of whether they have a completed profile or not I read their post on its merits. Whether they have a more cautious or less cautious attitude to putting personal data on the web is insignificant.
Lakesailor
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How many more times?
IT IS NOT TO PROVE HOW CLEVER YOU ARE. IT IS TO HELP ANSWER ANY ENQUIRIES YOU MAY HAVE
Funnily enough the internet is not such a scary place as you may think.
Stories about silly 15 year-old girls who get upset after they post pictures of themselves in their underwear are not representitive of most internet users.
Many of us work from home and have had websites with my details on the net for years. I have not yet been murdered in my bed.
IT IS NOT TO PROVE HOW CLEVER YOU ARE. IT IS TO HELP ANSWER ANY ENQUIRIES YOU MAY HAVE
Funnily enough the internet is not such a scary place as you may think.
Stories about silly 15 year-old girls who get upset after they post pictures of themselves in their underwear are not representitive of most internet users.
Many of us work from home and have had websites with my details on the net for years. I have not yet been murdered in my bed.
Playtime
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I agree that the main reason for a profile is to allow respondants to put questions into context.
However, there are (rare?) occasions when one respondant may disagree with another and an exchange between them takes place (maybe not even on the original subject). In such cases it may help to know something about the other guy.
Maybe I should ignore profiles and pay more attention to the number of posts a respondant has made.
PS I have amended my profile.
doug748
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Working on the ragged proposition that anybody cares, I have just updated my profile.
Can I make a plea that people read them, as well?
One geezer got a massive boilocking for attempted "murder" of this loved ones, for not fitting a radar.
His profile revealed he sailed a Caprice.
Can I make a plea that people read them, as well?
One geezer got a massive boilocking for attempted "murder" of this loved ones, for not fitting a radar.
His profile revealed he sailed a Caprice.
Signed Out
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But really...
Yes, it makes sense that it helps to answer questions if you know some basics about the questioner's situation with regards to a specific question, but the relevant information can be put into the question.
OK, this is often missed, but why is it less relevant if placed in the body of the question, rather than in the OP's profile? It makes no difference in answering the question, if what is required to answer it is there in the Q.
It makes no difference that the internet is not full of freaks and a place where everybody are out to get you, because there are people who feg it up for the rest of us and abuse info that is posted freely; be it to commit crime, or be it to accuse someone of being a Mac26 fancier. Intimidation is alive and well on forums, so please don't feed it here. There is no shortage of emotion in the few forums I enter here presently, and quite a high level of suspicion and animosity, particularly in such threads as those on environmental related issues, and this is leaching (leeching?) through into other areas.
Please accept that some of us want to keep our web profiles slimmer than others.
Yes, it makes sense that it helps to answer questions if you know some basics about the questioner's situation with regards to a specific question, but the relevant information can be put into the question.
OK, this is often missed, but why is it less relevant if placed in the body of the question, rather than in the OP's profile? It makes no difference in answering the question, if what is required to answer it is there in the Q.
It makes no difference that the internet is not full of freaks and a place where everybody are out to get you, because there are people who feg it up for the rest of us and abuse info that is posted freely; be it to commit crime, or be it to accuse someone of being a Mac26 fancier. Intimidation is alive and well on forums, so please don't feed it here. There is no shortage of emotion in the few forums I enter here presently, and quite a high level of suspicion and animosity, particularly in such threads as those on environmental related issues, and this is leaching (leeching?) through into other areas.
Please accept that some of us want to keep our web profiles slimmer than others.
david_bagshaw
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Just had a look at mine, and realised another 10 years have gone by since the last revision.
where did that go then.
where did that go then.
Tom Price
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[QUOTE=Playtime:
"Maybe I should ignore profiles and pay more attention to the number of posts a respondant has made."
FWIW I've asked our Moderator to delete that statistic - won't do. And it would be a shame to ignore 20 posts a day from anyone who only sails on an inland pond.
"Maybe I should ignore profiles and pay more attention to the number of posts a respondant has made."
FWIW I've asked our Moderator to delete that statistic - won't do. And it would be a shame to ignore 20 posts a day from anyone who only sails on an inland pond.
