# 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:** 1 **Showing post:** 3
### Author: ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@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): > > 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… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-locations/931343)._