Unless the location is vital to the reader’s understanding of a post (and hey, you can always ask if it’s not listed!), I don’t see why it’s such a big deal to have the “right” location listed. I mean, my location <i>is</i> correct. It just takes a little bit of Googling. If I just put “Missoula,” it wouldn’t describe my standard posting place nearly as well. But joke locations are just fine too- a little bit of humor for the day!
Again, if someone didn’t already know who he was, saying he’s from Toronto, Ontario doesn’t give them insight into his soul.
And hell, even when you asked I answered, what more do you want.
A number of years ago when I first opened this account, I put “In the Dreaming” because I was dreaming of making my sorry-assed life better and I was first exploring Dreamwork.
Then I went away for several years when things changed to the pay basis.
When I came back, I saw the tag, which I’d forgotten all about, and was pleased.
I live in the dreaming.
I work in the dreaming.
I am in the dreaming.
I’ve made no secret in my various posts that I am physically located in the Minneapolis area. I’ve even pointed out that I use this name on other boards.
Unless you’re using your entire given name as your username, you got nothing to complain about if others use their fields for fun.
I think the OP needs to ease off the caffine, and perhaps be grateful that such a petty thing seems so large to him right now. Things in their life could be so much worse, yet obviously they aren’t, since they have the leisure to grope around for trifling things to blow a gasket over…
My location is no mystery to anyone who can use Google. You’ll get a page full of it.
If you were pitting drm specifically, why not put his name in the thread title, then? Those links would have made more sense in the OP, too. Instead it seems like you’re pitting everyone who doesn’t fill in his location whether or not it has any relation to the thread. In the case of the thread in CS, yeah it would have been good if drm gave his location, at least in his reply, if not in the field. Instead, it seems like you’re just bitching at people in general for no damn good reason.
Just as long as nobody claims that they’re slithering on the hull, or BEHIND ME! then I don’t mind that much. But those would freak me out.
Done.
To me, not putting your location in the Location field is far less annoying than the argument for not doing so that usually shows up in these threads, that being the venerable “I agree that a poster’s location is an important thing to know at times, but I neglect to put that information in the Location field because I point it out whenever it’s relevant”.
- Yeah, clearly; that’s why this keeps coming up.
- If, somehow, you are perfect about mentioning your location in every post for which it might provide another poster some relevant context, that would mean that you are mentioning your location a significant amount of the time, which rather defeats the purpose of failing to mention your location in the handy little field provided for that purpose.
If you don’t want to reveal your location for whatever reason, that’s absolutely your right, but don’t be disingenuous about it.
That said, I’ll readily acknowledge that nobody in this thread has said that yet, but it’s gotten on my nerves enough in the past that I wanted to head it off here. Hopefully nobody will make this argument this time around, and then everyone can point and laugh at my pointless preemptive defense. 
Pathetic.
You could have written a focused complaint about people who contribute to threads in which their location is important for context, but don’t mention their location. That would have gone over fine. Instead, you decide to shout at everyone who doesn’t have their city, state, and zip in their location field. Gold star.
If you can’t deal with jokes, especially unfunny ones, this isn’t the board for you.
I agree with the OP to an extent.
I wouldn’t go as far as say people shouldn’t be able to insert joke locations, but I do know that I can’t remember the last time I’ve seen one that I thought was funny, but almost daily I find myself disappointed when I look to somebody’s location field hoping it will clarify a post.
Listen, this is a kingdom, and we have butter here. If you need any other information, I’ll be sure to provide it as and when.
Did Gaylord just do a Dane Cook joke?!
He Googled it.
Hey, hey, buddy, I wasn’t going there.
Good point. So, Australia is the one that got invaded by Germany, right?
UFKC UYO
It’s a puzzle, just for you. Enjoy!
Sometimes I stop and waggle my butt a little in my office chair, look around at the dirty plates and glasses on my desk, glance up to the window to see the sunlight outside, and realize I’ve been sitting on my computer for hours pretending that what goes on out there is really important.
Leaffan, dear, I know it’s cold outside, but can you just get a little fresh air? Okay?
See, and for a while I had my actual location in the location field and I got PMs bitching that it was “inaccurate”.
Because my location said “Hicksville” and I had mentioned I work in NYC.
The authors of the PMs didn’t realize the name of my town is an actual name for a populous suburb of NYC and thought I was being all jokey and were irked at my jokey-ness.
So I gave up, left the damn thing blank, and Leaffan can just deal.
Wimpy pitting.