# We plan to disable "Hide my profile" option

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**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")\
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**Author:** ![Ed\_Zotti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/fbc32d/32.png) [@Ed\_Zotti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ed_Zotti)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2024, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-plan-to-disable-hide-my-profile-option/1003903/22 "2024-07-09T14:21:22Z")

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> [@thorny\_locust](#):
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> It occurs to me – is it possible for the mods to pm the people with currently hidden profiles, to make sure they get a chance to remove any personal information they’ve put in there?
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> It’s not clear to me why someone who wants to hide their profile would have entered such information in the first place; but maybe somebody did so. Maybe they didn’t realize fields in the profile could be left blank.

We’re not aware of any way to send a notice solely to those with hidden profiles, and if we emailed everyone there’s a good chance we’d get flagged as a spammer. We agree it’s unlikely anyone would have gone to the trouble of putting sensitive info in their Profiles and then hiding them. We’re thinking that, if we decide to go ahead with this change - and the reaction seems positive so far - we’ll post a global announcement a few days in advance of implementation to give people a chance to review what they put in their Profiles. We’ll provide detailed instructions on how to do this. That ought to be sufficient.

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