# We plan to disable "Hide my profile" option **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [July 8, 2024, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-plan-to-disable-hide-my-profile-option/1003903 "2024-07-08T19:26:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 14
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2024, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-plan-to-disable-hide-my-profile-option/1003903/14 "2024-07-08T21:34:26Z")
FWIW, I favor the change. FYI for everyone … This issue was brought to TPTBs’ attention via a 2-year long thread over in Site Feedback that’s recently been very active and now has about 155 posts. That pretty fully fleshes out the arguments pro and con as the userbase saw it. Litigating Ed’s planned decision here is maybe superfluous until anyone wanting to litigate here has read all this first: > [@If you have a hidden profile it is more difficult to follow your arguments](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-have-a-hidden-profile-it-is-more-difficult-to-follow-your-arguments/973302): > > Continuing the discussion from [Why do Dopers start contests regarding grave matters?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-dopers-start-contests-regarding-grave-matters/973159/235): I said it is hard, not impossible. The interface may be different for you because you are a moderator, but this is my experience. Doing a search is about ten times as difficult as a filter. You only see a preview of each post. You have to click on each one to see the full text, at which point the search results are hidden. To jump to the next post you must first click the search icon again to show the resul… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-plan-to-disable-hide-my-profile-option/1003903)._