The “powers that be” do have access to IP addresses for users, so unless someone is using a proxy they would be able to check if the location entered is accurate. Actually checking that would be tedious and I agree with you that forcing users to fill in the location field is a dumb idea.
Seems like overkill for poorly written posts.
Much better is 38 replies of “Tell us where you’re located Jagoff!”
I hate when people ask location-specific questions without mentioning where they are, but not enough to make the location mandatory.
The “Powers that Be” could only somewhat, more or less, determine if the poster lived in the general part of the world that they claim to even without using a proxy server. Like the targeted adds that try to customize to your area that are often quite wrong. My ISP is through CenturyTel and the adds often seem to believe that I live in Montana, more often though they put me somewhere near Aberdeen, Washington, when I am actually several hundred miles to the south, in Oregon.
I’m homeless. What is my address?
Mathematician Paul Erdős, who contributed prolifically to the current body of mathematics in a variety of areas, never had a fixed address and carried all of his worldly possessions in a suitcase. Would you exclude him from the pool of respondents because he would not have an address.
I think the location field is generally useless, hence why so many posters poke fun at it by making a joke of their location. It is is pertinent to the thread at hand, the poster can provide it or be prompted for a location. Otherwise, who particularly cares?
Stranger
Can we at least enforce the “species” field?
I’m sorry, but I’ve just acheived enlightenment, and I am one with everything. If I ask about a DVD region, you’re just going to have to fake it.
So, you’re a Coney Island Hot Dog?
You mean, like this?
Just don’t ask me for change.
People who ask questions that need a location, but they don’t provide one…? Not much different from people asking a computer question not telling whether they’re using Mac or PC, or asking a question about THE THREE MUSKETEERS and not specifying whether book or movie or which movie… Yeah, people can make errors of omission, but that’s not a reason for us to insist on everyone providing location, or their computer-type, or… Si?
It’s a one in a million chance, but it just might work!
Sometimes we just need a fool to tee off on, and what better fool than someone who asks a location-specific question without giving a location? Fool!
Uh, that was a general ejaculation of “fool,” not calling Saint Cad a fool.
I’m sorry, that’s just not possible.
ITT: Cat Whisperer ejaculated in the thread.
She’s a squirter? :eek:
Must be, unless she’s got a surprise!
On site after site, I get location based ads from a city at least 75 miles away and I am not hiding my ip address from any advertiser.