OK I finally locationed!
I missed this the first time around but I’ve located.
Given that I outed my location in this thread, I went ahead and narrowed it down to there.
I’m bumping this thread now that all of us are probably checking out profiles with Ed’s announcement of removing the “hidden profile” feature.
It’d be great if anyone who’s willing could put in a general location in the location field of their profile.
Seconding. Please do that, if there’s any way you feel that you can. It can be quite vague; even something like “somewhere in Southwest USA” can be helpful. I very often see a comment in a thread that would make a whole lot more sense if I had some rough idea where the commentor is, whether it’s about weather or politics or availability of something in stores or a wildlife sighting or . . . lots of other stuff.
You may well have said something on the boards about where you live and therefore think that others know – but unless you’ve just said it within the last few posts in the thread I’m reading, chances are that I either never saw it or don’t remember it or don’t remember who said it.
Yes. Don’t expect people to remember it because you are a frequent poster. Don’t assume anything at all. Just put some location up for others to see, no matter how vague it is.
It really helps for when a poster says (which they often do) something like: “Around here it’s illegal to buy fish food.” That way we know where you are writing about and not have to ask.
Yeah, please do locate. Obviously the majority of posters are US based, but I’m not; and occasionally someone posts something that makes no sense at all to me. Often location information would help. I guess there’s scope for reciprocal confusion as well, but I’ve located. Hopefully South East England will help solve any confusions that I might occasionally create.
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I don’t see how a vague location helps you out. For instance your location is Bay Area, maybe you mean Galveston Bay Tampa Bay
or some county on the frisco bay. You location tells us Bay Area don’t assume we all know which one.
I assumed California; but agree that that particular location can be confused. It’s possible to be quite vague but still make it clear what country and what quadrant or so of a large country you’re in, though. And I think mine is pretty vague but it even gives an idea of what part of a moderatly large US state I’m in.
How about we say “imprecise location” rather than “vague location”. “Imprecise” is very different from ambiguous.
Which is what @I_Love_Me_Vol.I blindly did. That’s just another form of “around here”; the unthinking belief that everyone in your audience shares your mental context and that the local terminology where you are is somehow unique on Earth.
Hence my own “Southeast Florida USA”. That covers a couple tens of thousands of square miles, so is imprecise as to my own address. But anyone with any geo-knowledge or access to Google maps can unambiguously find roughly that area on their map.
How did I miss this the first zillion times it came up? I agree that knowing a poster’s location is great and I can’t believe I’m four years behind the pack.
One thing that the mods might want to fix. Profile gives a field for Web Site with http already filled in. That’s obsolete today. When I do Google searches and try to click on a site that doesn’t have the https on their URL I get an warning message from my security software. Many of those sites are perfectly harmless, just a bit elderly. Nevertheless, nudging people to make sure their URLs start with https would be a good thing.
I don’t remember when I entered my location info. It is a bit more vague than it needs to be. I’m going to add “CA” to Bay Area, I think.
I have locationed! Which sounds a lot weirder in French, where “location” means “vehicle rental” (location de camions = truck rental, for example).
Southern Ontario!
Eh?