Why do some DUers have disabled profiles?

[dalaigh lllama]

You ever click on someone's profile and see this?

"ERROR: No such user profile

The user has disabled his/her user profile."

What's the point of this? I mean, can't someone just leave everything blank if they don't want anyone to know anything about them?

[crim son]

1. That's what you get when you leave everything blank,

I believe.

[Bossy Monkey]

2. It's the default setting, so you'll see it especially often with new DUers

Eventually, somebody accuses the new DUer of being a freeper because of the disabled profile, and this is how they find out about profiles (and knuckleheads, but that's another story).

I may be mistaken about it being the default setting; anyway it used to be.

If somebody has thousands of posts and still has it disabled, they're probably hoping to duck under the NSA's radar or something.

[dalaigh lllama]

4. But why doesn't the day they joined show up, then?

Along with the number of posts?

I seem to recall seeing some profiles that had just that information and nothing else, but I could be mistaken.

[Bossy Monkey]

8. They can change the default setting and still add very little info to the

profile. You used to see a lot with date joined, number of posts, and "gender: undeclared," too.

[Jamastiene]

3. I would guess one of three, make that four,

reasons (in no particular order):
1. Antisocial
2. Privacy buff
3. Too tired or lazy to fill in the blanks
4. Troll, get 'em :evilgrin:

[Floogeldy]

5. Don't be so concerned about what other people do.

Leave people alone. Why do you care? Don't you have better things to do?

:smoke:

[dalaigh lllama]

6. I'm just nosy

And I have better things to do but prefer to put them off until tomorrow. :D

[Floogeldy]

7. I respect your curiosity.

;)