# Please enforce the location field **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [December 10, 2010, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-enforce-the-location-field/563600 "2010-12-10T00:09:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2010, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-enforce-the-location-field/563600/41 "2010-12-11T05:46:34Z")
My location field exists because people keep asking me. I’ve already made my state public, and the name in quotes indicates the quality of the town, even if it doesn’t indicate the exact location. I also recently turned on my age for the same reason. I’ve already revealed my birthday and my age, so why not let it be on my profile? ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2010, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-enforce-the-location-field/563600/42 "2010-12-11T06:32:34Z")
Just PM or email a person whose location you want to know. Presumably you’ll have a legitimate reason for wanting the information, and if so they’ll probably tell you. It’s not something we could feasibly enforce. ---
**Author:** ![ZenBeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3ab097/32.png) [@ZenBeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZenBeam)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2010, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-enforce-the-location-field/563600/43 "2010-12-11T14:42:05Z")
I think, for cases like the OP is complaining about, we should collectively assume a standard location, say, Antarctica, and answer based on that. ---
**Author:** ![fuzzypickles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9d8465/32.png) [@fuzzypickles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fuzzypickles)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2010, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-enforce-the-location-field/563600/44 "2010-12-13T16:37:30Z")
> [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](#): > > I’m sorry, that’s just not possible. How come? ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2010, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-enforce-the-location-field/563600/45 "2010-12-13T18:37:44Z")
> [@ZenBeam](#): > > I think, for cases like the OP is complaining about, we should collectively assume a standard location, say, Antarctica, and answer based on that. Ok, what is location negative forty-one dot four supposed to be? ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2010, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-enforce-the-location-field/563600/46 "2010-12-13T18:46:10Z")
I think someone should write a program that would take the IP address of each user and calculate the distance to SDMB Ground Zero (Chicago), and put that in the location field. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tao_s_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2010, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-enforce-the-location-field/563600/47 "2010-12-13T22:41:33Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > I think someone should write a program that would take the IP address of each user and calculate the distance to SDMB Ground Zero (Chicago), and put that in the location field. Even better claim to write that program but just make it a random number. ---
**Author:** ![Cheshire\_Human](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Cheshire\_Human](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheshire_Human)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2010, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-enforce-the-location-field/563600/48 "2010-12-13T23:03:15Z")
> [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](#): > > Even better claim to write that program but just make it a random number. Only if they’ll _ **pay** _ you for it. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2010, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-enforce-the-location-field/563600/49 "2010-12-13T23:30:15Z")
Apparently, for the OP, it’s all about Location! Location! Location! ---
**Author:** ![Trepa\_Mayfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@Trepa\_Mayfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trepa_Mayfield)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2010, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-enforce-the-location-field/563600/50 "2010-12-13T23:52:13Z")
Everybody, change your location field to Paraguay! The purpose? To not see a single non-Paraguay field by December 22. Join the fight for South American Tree Frog awareness and post this in every thread on the SDMB for the Tree Frogs!!! ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2010, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-enforce-the-location-field/563600/51 "2010-12-14T00:18:25Z")
> [@pedescribe](#): > > Everybody, change your location field to Paraguay! The purpose? To not see a single non-Paraguay field by December 22. Join the fight for South American Tree Frog awareness and post this in every thread on the SDMB for the Tree Frogs!!! “So many reasons why, I won’t be sending Tree Frog postcards . . . from Paraguay” doesn’t fit. Sorry. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-enforce-the-location-field/563600.md?page=2)