# Doper locations
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-locations/931343
**Category:** About This Message Board
**Created:** [January 24, 2021, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-locations/931343 "2021-01-24T04:48:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2021, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-locations/931343/1 "2021-01-24T04:48:32Z")
On the old board, you could often/generally see where Dopers are located. Is this information available on the new board?
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### Author:  [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2021, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-locations/931343/2 "2021-01-24T04:59:25Z")
Location (according to Doper profile) is or isn’t displayed according to the chosen theme you’re using to view the board.
At least, that’s what I’ve been told. But maybe not. Earlier thread:
> [@Is there any way to show "location" anymore?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-way-to-show-location-anymore/925378/12):
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> I hate that it didn’t survive the switch to Discord, because it really helps when people write things like “Can you imagine? It’s 40º here today!” With no clue as to where they are… is that cold? (for Hawaii it might be)… Or warm (for Nova Scotia)… Or hot (could be 40 celsius).
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### Author:  [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2021, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-locations/931343/3 "2021-01-24T05:00:33Z")
If you add a location to your profile, then others can see it when they click on your avatar.
> [@I Locationed - Have you? A thread with a Community Benefit](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-locationed-have-you-a-game-with-a-community-benefit/925454):
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> Hi folks - Just like vBulletin, Discourse has a place for you to enter your location. Which will be displayed if somebody clicks on your avatar. Try mine and look just below the big pink/purple L. Back in vBulletin most of us put something in the location in our profile. Some as a joke, most as legit info. During the conversion to Discourse that info was not transferred. So nearly everybody now has a blank location. And nearly everybody doesn’t know that, and also doesn’t know that they can…
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### Author:  [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2021, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-locations/931343/4 "2021-01-24T13:40:04Z")
Hopefully more and more people add their location in.
I would absolutely encourage bumping the game in **needscoffee** link.
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### Author:  [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2021, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-locations/931343/5 "2021-01-24T20:20:52Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#):
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> Hopefully more and more people add their location in.
I also wish this. It’s relevant to a lot of posts to have some general idea of where the poster is.
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### Author:  [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2021, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-locations/931343/6 "2021-01-25T02:22:40Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#):
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> I would absolutely encourage bumping the game in **needscoffee** link.
Much too late to edit, so apologies for double post:
I wonder whether moving that thread would get more people to locate? I don’t usually pay much attention to categories; but if I did, I don’t know that I’d read thread games; and putting it there doesn’t make it seem to me like something the board’s seriously encouraging.
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### Author:  [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2021, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-locations/931343/7 "2021-01-25T02:29:24Z")
I was the OP of that thread. Which was created in response to a convo I had with moderator @What_Exit.
I have no objection to moving the thread to a different category if folsk think that’ll get more traction for the effort.
Perhaps a smarter idea would be to create a locked sticky here in ATMB which explains how the various fields in the user’s profile appear and providing a “suggested community standard” for what’s need to fill out, really ought to fill out, versus we don’t care if you do or don’t fill out.
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### Author:  [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2021, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-locations/931343/8 "2021-01-25T03:16:25Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#):
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> Perhaps a smarter idea would be to create a locked sticky here in ATMB which explains how the various fields in the user’s profile appear and providing a “suggested community standard” for what’s need to fill out, really ought to fill out, versus we don’t care if you do or don’t fill out.
I would never think to look there, as a longtime poster. Maybe a very diligent new user might. A sticky could be made, but additionally I think the other thread that’s in Thread Games would really be best off in a different category, for maximum eyeballs.
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### Author:  [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2021, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-locations/931343/9 "2021-01-25T10:57:13Z")
As it isn’t really a game, maybe MPSIMS is better anyway. I’ll move it.
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2021, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-locations/931343/10 "2021-01-25T15:00:51Z")
I see your location, but What Exit?
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### Author:  [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2021, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-locations/931343/11 "2021-01-25T15:14:23Z")
Use to be 109 and now it is a little bit north.
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### Author:  [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2021, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-locations/931343/12 "2021-01-25T16:21:16Z")
@Johnny_L.A, I know (I think) what PNW stands for, but I bet a lot of people on the board, especially those not in the USA, don’t. Spell it out, maybe?
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2021, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-locations/931343/13 "2021-01-25T16:28:20Z")
Better?
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### Author:  [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2021, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-locations/931343/14 "2021-01-25T16:38:32Z")
Much.
– and I’ve been being mislead by your L.A, which apparently has nothing to do with either Los Angeles or Louisiana. That, however, may just be me.
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2021, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-locations/931343/15 "2021-01-25T16:40:15Z")
I’m from L.A., and was living there when I registered. I moved but kept my username.
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### Author:  [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2021, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-locations/931343/16 "2021-01-25T16:45:45Z")
Aha! Makes sense; though L. A. of course could mean lots of other things too. Thanks for clarification.
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2021, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-locations/931343/17 "2021-01-25T16:51:47Z")
L.A. is Los Angeles.
LA is Louisiana.
I’m not sure how people abbreviate Lower Alabama (Florida Panhandle).
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### Author:  [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2021, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-locations/931343/18 "2021-01-25T17:11:16Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#):
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> L.A. is Los Angeles.
> LA is Louisiana.
Then, ref your username, what is “L.A”? 😉
“LSL” in my username was a geographical reference to where I was living when I joined. Which is also now obsolete.
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2021, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-locations/931343/19 "2021-01-25T17:39:02Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#):
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> Then, ref your username, what is “L.A”? 😉
Discourse will not allow a period at the end of a username. For 20 years my username was Johnny L.A., but the new board made me add an underscore and remove the last character. (Which irritates the hell out of me.)
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### Author:  [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2021, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-locations/931343/20 "2021-01-25T17:53:11Z")
You lost a dot, I lost a question mark. Harsh.