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Forum member's country flags
Ian.M:
Yep and if I ask a question which would normally cause readers to want to check my location, i have provided insufficient information in that question. I *TRY* not to do that!
Its not too hard to figure out my approximate location +/- several hundred miles, if you trawl through my posting history, but you'd have to do that manually as 3rd party search engines don't access members only areas. I've been limiting PII and metadata in anything I post for over 30 years, and don't use social media, for *reasons*, and so far have been successful in keeping my actual identity below the search engine noise floor.
Ed.Kloonk:
--- Quote from: Ian.M on April 13, 2021, 10:31:42 am ---Yep and if I ask a question which would normally cause readers to want to check my location, i have provided insufficient information in that question. I *TRY* not to do that!
Its not too hard to figure out my approximate location +/- several hundred miles, if you trawl through my posting history, but you'd have to do that manually as 3rd party search engines don't access members only areas. I've been limiting PII and metadata in anything I post for over 30 years, and don't use social media, for *reasons*, and so far have been successful in keeping my actual identity below the search engine noise floor.
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Yet you use your name as your handle?
:o
Ian.M:
Approximately 0.5% of the celtic diaspora share the name 'Ian' and if you narrow my identity down further, its even more common*, so yes, I still use part of my name as my nym, as was customary when I first went online. Good luck picking me out from the approx 200K other potential Ian.M's out there without 'three letter agency' scale resources to correlate the data.
* https://youtu.be/J2pBluew7aY
Gyro:
--- Quote from: Ian.M on April 13, 2021, 10:31:42 am ---Its not too hard to figure out my approximate location +/- several hundred miles, if you trawl through my posting history, but you'd have to do that manually as 3rd party search engines don't access members only areas.
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I'll let you know if I ever work up the enthusiasm and sufficient curiosity to do that! :-DD
wilfred:
--- Quote from: Circlotron on April 13, 2021, 02:40:39 am ---I think it would be good if next to each user's country flag it had a two-letter abbreviation of the country name. There are so many flags that I have no idea what they are. And no, I don't come from USA.
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On a desktop I can hover the mouse pointer over the flag to get the country name. Does that not work on all platforms?
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