I don't trust posters with no profile.

[devilgrrl]

Let's be honest... posters sans profiles are probably trolls. Think about it... what they hiding?

stopthegop had no profile after a 1000+ posts (that made one go hmmmm), he was finally tombstoned. Sorry, I'm no longer going to bother with people with no profiles.

[Speck Tater]

1. But,... but... You can trust me!

I just never got around to updating my profile.

[radwriter0555]

2. I'm not a troll and live a very private life. I don't want some freeper

tracking me down and killing me.

[Toucano]

3. That seems like a reasonable conclusion.

It isn't like there could be any other plausable explanation or anything.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

6. Oh this will be a good thread

some very entertaining responses so far. :)

[Nikki Stone 1]

21. No profile is often a result of being bitten once too often

I keep my profile private. This is not because I have any malicious intent. It is a reasonable way of protecting oneself on a fairly open board.

[carolinayellowdog]

4. After what happened to Misanthrope I removed mine

and bet a lot of other DUers suddenly became fearful of Freeper stalkers.

Not sure I want anyone to "bother with" me anyhow though so no loss.

[Vickers]

14. Yup.

I took some stuff out of mine.

I'd hate to have to ventilate some poor bastard who happened to find out where I live and then made the mistake of setting foot on my property without my permission.

[MoonRiver]

15. What happened?

[carolinayellowdog]

He got fired from a radio job after a Freeper stalked him

figured out his ID and contacted his employer about his posting here wrt reluctance to lionize Reagan

[MoonRiver]

20. Oh, yeah now I remember that situation.

I had forgotten his name.

[MadHound]

5. Don't be so quick to judge

What with a DUer getting fired after a Freeper fingered him, some people are quite leery of letting any information out. I don't blame them. Some of us work in sensitive jobs, and it is probably best not to let out any personal information.

Besides, I always look at a troll or freeper as a chance to convert. You never know.

[Caution]

7. or maybe, just maybe

we value our online privacy. one example should never be used to set the standard.

[BillZBubb]

8. Profile, we don't need no steenkin' profile!

I don't even know (or care) if I've got a profile. I can assure you I'm no troll though.

Anyway, Mulder was right: "Trust no one".

[MoonRiver]

18. You've got one!

I just checked. :hi:

[wyldwolf]

9. ok

:hi: buh bye!

[Gom Jabbar]

10. My profile is disabled

because the internet is an open zoo, and there are things with claws wandering around.

Two DUers that I know of got in trouble at their jobs for posting stuff here, and one got fired. I'll keep my privacy intact, thanks, and tell Bush to go fuck himself without worrying about having to update my resume.

I'm sorry you won't be dealing with me.

[Paradise]

11. these freeping trolls are extremely annoying! nt

[OKNancy]

12. No surprise to me about

the poster you mentioned.

[tnlefty]

13. I've had mine disabled before and it may still be.....

I was trying to "hide" where I live. People who are in small communities with lots of rwing nuts who are heavily armed and not really bright may not want to display info. that might make them more of a target. Ya know.

[Speck Tater]

16. I saw my boss's boss in a Carlye Group documentary.

You think I want him knowing who I am on DU?

[FlemingsGhost]

17. I don't trust the devil.

And grrls are not to be taken lightly, either.

[Killarney]

19. I would never use a profile here

with all the psycho lurking freepers.

No way. No email, no profile. Fuck that.

[shadu]

24. I never thought about the email address

If I ever get around to it that probably should be disabled.

[shadu]

22. I am just too damn lazy to create a profile

I don't look at profiles, but I would assume most
of them are BS anyway.

[AP]

23. I dont' trust 100% ANYTHING I read on a public forum...

...where people post anonymously.

And a profile isn't going to make much of a difference.

[devilgrrl]

25. One can always just make shit up?

Can anyone here figure out where in Los Angeles I live from my profile? And what makes you think anything there is true?

I understand why some don't want to fill them out but it seems like everyone who's been tombstoned had no profile filled out. :shrug:

[MoonRiver]

33. Actually, I've wondered the same thing.

I have noticed that many newbies who act suspiciously don't have profiles. You can put next to nothing on your profile so I don't see the big deal in having something there.

[GiovanniC]

26. There Is One Person Here

Has a profile, even has a star, but every single one of their comments seems to be right of center. They have a fairly low post count, and I've been waiting to see the tombstone but it never comes.

I must not have paid a lot of attention to the poster you mentioned, although one of his posts today did raise my eyebrows a bit. When I see that "1000+" I generally shrug it off.

[Name removed]

27. Deleted message

Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

[tritsofme]

28. I have no profile.

I don't like having my private life all over the internet.

[Cheswick2.0]

29. stop the Gop was finally tombstoned?

What got him? Did he just tire of the sherade?

[TexasSissy]

30. I don't have a profile. Here's why.

It's a dangerous world. Someone could not like something I say and go after me, figuring out things about me from the profile.

A freeper or troll can just make up anything in a profile, anyway.

Well, I may have SOMETHING in my profile, but not much. I don't remember.

[sangh0]

31. IMO, stopthegop was stopped by a poster with no profile

Just a hunch of mine

:shrug:

[hyphenate]

32. I think everyone

should have some sort of profile, even if it's whether you're a female or a male. I get mistaken for a male a lot because I have an ambiguous screen name, and keep Richard Dean Anderson as my personal icon. (No wonder I get so many "enlarge your penis" spam mails!!!)

What can be wrong with at least a gender clarification? It's not like old times when writers and artists had to pretend to be males in order to succeed. Oh, wait a minute--that's coming back under the Bush administration!!!

[rinsd]

35. That's all my profile says...

Male.

Though I might as well put in where I live. I've discussed San Diego enough that people knwo that's where I live.

[ArkDem]

34. Some people have no profile because they are

very skinny.

[RC]

36. Sure a lot of paranoids here.

It not like your profile requires your full name and street address to appear.

With an Avatar Image, gender, a posting name, City & State, someone can track you down? Sure.

[carolinayellowdog]

42. Practice what you preach

The place I had listed in my profile has a population under 200

[ClassWarrior]

37. Doesn't this belong in the Lounge?

Or ask the moderators?

[LunaC]

38. It's a privacy thing

But if you want to judge me, accuse me of trolling and blow me off because of it, it's just as well 'cuz it seems that you might be painting with too wide a brush and my knee-jerk reaction is to quote Cheney's recent outburst on the Senate floor.

You can put me on "Ignore" now if you like.

[swag]

39. In the immortal words of "Big Time" Dick,

"Go Fuck Yourself."

No, I dont' mean that. Unless you want to. In which case, by all means.

[westsidexview]

40. can what is posted on the profile be verified?

how many profiles are mendacious?

[voice of reason]

41. yeah, well sorry

but I will not share private info on public forums for obvious reasons (some already stated).

voice

[westsidexview]

43. to trust someone is good, to not trust someone is better- Sicilian proverb

[Jose Diablo]

44. Me too

Posters without profiles are...wait a minute.
:)

[Moderator]

45. Locking......

There is no rule that says one must
complete his/her profile. Insinuating
that anyone who does not have a
completed profile is a disruptor is a
rules violation.

Speculation about why someone was
tombstoned is inappropriate.


Thank you.

DU Moderator