your profile visitors(stalker?)

The Artist

say one of my visitor (stalker) is not my friend eg= had arguements,slanging each other,old enemys comes on my profile.
theres no way of them stoping them?

Zaph

There never was any way of stopping them before, just now you can see that they've been there.

Personally I don't like this feature, I think we'll end up with an awful lot of paranoid Boardsies. Sometimes ignorance is bliss.

Doctor DooM

Meh, it's hardly bebo, who cares if your boards arch- nemesis can see how many people have thanked you, or what your signature is?

leninbenjamin

who cares? it's just the internet. just don't give out your real name or credit card details and you'll be fine. actually you can give them to me for safe keeping if you want.

The Artist

Zaph wrote: »

There never was any way of stopping them before, just now you can see that they've been there.

Personally I don't like this feature, I think we'll end up with an awful lot of paranoid Boardsies. Sometimes ignorance is bliss.

i agree with you there.
its like whats he/she doing looking on my profile(foe) will kinda make you mad imo.

Kimbot

leninbenjamin wrote: »

actually you can give them to me for safe keeping if you want.

Sending right now.... also do you need the combination for my safe??

Doctor DooM

Alan Ford wrote: »

i agree with you there.
its like whats he/she doing looking on my profile(foe) will kinda make you mad imo.

... but they could always do it anyway... is it not better that now you know they're poking around?

Latchy

human nature will have people looking in profiles just out of curiosity, and nothing else

* peers out of window blinds just to make sure *

Lockstep

leninbenjamin wrote: »

who cares? it's just the internet. just don't give out your real name or credit card details and you'll be fine. actually you can give them to me for safe keeping if you want.

Uh...wallet inspector.

The Artist

SDooM wrote: »

... but they could always do it anyway... is it not better that now you know they're poking around?

maybe Cult can do something to stop your non friends or foes visiting profiles by way of the visitor cant access their profile.
Eg.you have the choice of the particular person who you dont want to view your profile page?
At the moment it could lead to members fighting with the foe or non friends and hells break loose imo.

Doctor DooM

Alan Ford wrote: »

maybe Cult can do something to stop your non friends or foes visiting profiles by way of the visitor cant access their profile.
Eg.you have the choice of the particular person who you dont want to view your profile page?
At the moment it could lead to members fighting with the foe or non friends and hells break loose imo.

Like people on your ignore list cant or something, I guess.

Stark

And then they can just log out and view your profile, and you won't know they've visited.

The Artist

Stark wrote: »

And then they can just log out and view your profile, and you won't know they've visited.

i never thought that!
So it means theres no way to stop it.
oh well we'l have to grin and bear it.

Doctor DooM

Alan Ford wrote: »

i never thought that!
So it means theres no way to stop it.
oh well we'l have to grin and bear it.

There's never been a way to stop it. You could always check someones profile any time.

Thrill

I've visited a few profile pages just to see what the fuss was about. I think when the novelty factor wears off no-one will bother with it.

The only problem I can see with it is people with grudges against one another leaving insulting and trolling comments on the profile page. Plus, Mods wont be able to visit every profile to check on things that break the site rules etc.

Stark

There's a report comment function on the visitor's page for situations like that.

The Artist

quote=Thrill;56153268I The only problem I can see with it is people with grudges against one another leaving insulting and trolling comments on the profile page. Plus, Mods wont be able to visit every profile to check on things that break the site rules etc

thats what im seeing myself.
It will be a lot more work for the mods to look up whos doing wrong when they are trying to do thier own mod forums.
you cant seem to report the foe looking at your profile.

The Artist

Stark wrote: »

There's a report comment function on the visitor's page for situations like that.

i dont see that option

AlmightyCushion

It's the little report link beside the message.

stovelid

Alan Ford wrote: »

i dont see that option

Wait until somebody leaves a comment. You then have an option to report it.

Thrill

Alan Ford wrote: »

i dont see that option

I've left a little comment on your profile page so you can check it out.

The Artist

stovelid wrote: »

Wait until somebody leaves a comment. You then have an option to report it.

oh i know how to do that.
its the box where you see whos visit your profile should have a report link in it.
i tried to copy the box and post it but i dont know how.

Recent Visitors
The last 10 visitor(s) to this page were:
AlmightyCushion Gauge+ irish-stew+ jameshayes kickoutthejams Kintarō Hattori Mirror+ Quality+ smashey+ Thrill This page has had 40 visits

AlmightyCushion

Alan Ford wrote: »

oh i know how to do that.
its the box where you see whos visit your profile should have a report link in it.
i tried to copy the box and post it but i dont know how.

There's nothing wrong with viewing someone's profile. The problem occurs when someone leaves abusive comments. That is why there is no option to report someone who has looked at your profile.

The Artist

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

There's nothing wrong with viewing someone's profile. The problem occurs when someone leaves abusive comments. That is why there is no option to report someone who has looked at your profile.

thanks Ac
would an option for the recent vistors be a good idea?

AlmightyCushion

Alan Ford wrote: »

thanks Ac
would an option for the recent vistors be a good idea?

No like I said above, someone looking at your profile is harmless that's why the option isn't there.

Steve

Alan Ford wrote: »

i dont see that option

I left ya a message so you'll see it now:)

AlmightyCushion

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

No like I said above, someone looking at your profile is harmless that's why the option isn't there.

Exactly, just dont put anything in your (public) profile that may incriminate you!

Overheal

well you can disable the message box for a group if you moderate one; should be a way to disable the message box in your profile if you prefer ¿

Nevyn

You can set your message box to friends admins and mods only.

Mod use the profiles to check on peoples posts to look for patterns this was how it was before hand only now you can see those who are visible visitors to your profile.

Alan Ford wrote: »

maybe Cult can do something to stop your non friends or foes visiting profiles by way of the visitor cant access their profile.
Eg.you have the choice of the particular person who you dont want to view your profile page?
At the moment it could lead to members fighting with the foe or non friends and hells break loose imo.

Will

Yeah I usually just view people's profiles who come onto the forums I mod. Nothing malicious or evil about it. Loads of people view profiles, if you dont like it keep your profile blank. There's nothing stopping you from entering nothing

kittensoft1984

ok so i have no idea what this is about?

How do you know who has viewed your profile?

Marcus.Aurelius

click your name at the top right corner of this page and then look at the lower right side of the profile page. It lists recent visitors

The Artist

stevec wrote: »

I left ya a message so you'll see it now:)

got that message.

CuLT

As Thaed mentions you have the option in your UserCP to enable messages only from your friends and mods/admins to be posted to it.

Anyone could always view it though. It's not your bebo page etc so just don't fill all your personal details out on it.

Relevant to stalking and I pissed myself seeing this ****!

kittensoft1984

Everytime i try to go into my profile it keeps saying that windows exp has perforned an illegal action!!

stoopid work computers!

CuLT

kittensoft1984 wrote: »

Everytime i try to go into my profile it keeps saying that windows exp has perforned an illegal action!!

stoopid work computers!

If you can install Firefox or similar on youir work computer you should be able to view the site correctly, <nerdspeak>your work computer's Internet Explorer install is buggy and is probably crashing on javascript invocation.</nerdspeak>

If you don't have the ability to install new programs, try downloading Portable Firefox and just run it without installing.

Stark

Alan Ford must have petitioned Microsoft to make viewing profiles illegal.

kittensoft1984

CuLT wrote: »

If you can install Firefox or similar on youir work computer you should be able to view the site correctly, <nerdspeak>your work computer's Internet Explorer install is buggy and is probably crashing on javascript invocation.</nerdspeak>

If you don't have the ability to install new programs, try downloading Portable Firefox and just run it without installing.

Its only happening since today......

CuLT

kittensoft1984 wrote: »

Its only happening since today......

Maybe just a cache thing then. Try clearing your "temporary internet files".

The Artist

Stark wrote: »

Alan Ford must have petitioned Microsoft to make viewing profiles illegal.

lol im not exactly bill gates am i:D

or do i look like him:p

tallaght01

So my profile just says "This page has been viewed 3 times". It doesn't say who those people were. They were all me i think!

Do other people's profiles tell them WHO visited?

TequilaMockingBird

tallaght01 wrote: »

So my profile just says "This page has been viewed 3 times". It doesn't say who those people were. They were all me i think!

Do other people's profiles tell them WHO visited?

Only if they are logged in. Whoever viewed your profile did so while logged out, or using invisible mode.

If you view your profile while logged out, then it will show as a "view".
I'll visit you now, so you can see.

Talliesin

Alan Ford wrote: »

say one of my visitor (stalker) is not my friend eg= had arguements,slanging each other,old enemys comes on my profile.
theres no way of them stoping them?

No. There isn't a way of stopping people seeing what you publish in public. That's one of the things about publishing things in public. Practically the defining thing.

All you have to do is not publish anything in public that makes you look like an utter idiot.

Good luck with that.

The Artist

QUOTE=Talliesin;56168051
All you have to do is not publish anything in public that makes you look like an utter idiot.

talking of that,im proud and not shy showing my profile and pic if i did?
As for bieing an idiot i dont think i am imo.
I think its good to show who you are as by way that your not lying about yourself imo.
you just dont know who ye talking to if you know what i mean.:)

TequilaMockingBird

Alan Ford wrote: »

you just dont know who ye talking to if you know what i mean.:)

Several thousand members?

The Artist

sueme wrote: »

Several thousand members?

i dont mind as long they behave themselves:p

Bob the Builder

Imo, It doesn't really matter if you know who's been visiting, but as said already, ignorance, sometimes, is a very blissful thing.

The main fear i see with that "Profile views" box is that people might start whoring around to increase how many times their profile has been viewed with that "click me to see 70 naked chics, no, srsly" shíte that you see written all over Bebo to bump profile views.

...A perfect example of trying to increase Bebo profile views can be found in my signature.

Also, has a charter been written up regarding what exactly you can write into the visitor messages or is it just a "common sense" rule?

DeVore

Common sense rule.

Basically your profile is a mini thread dedicated to you and which you mod (afaik).

I've just realised that I have one of those too.... well, thats going to be fun now isnt it

DeV.

Bob the Builder

DeVore wrote: »

Common sense rule.

Thats fair 'nuff. Probably the way it should be.

Basically your profile is a mini thread dedicated to you and which you mod (afaik).

I've just realised that I have one of those too.... well, thats going to be fun now isnt it

Thats so cool, I have a thread dedicated to me.

Toto Wolfcastle

I really like the visitor messages thing. You can talk about anything (within reason) without worrying about going off topic.

Also I can see people getting to know others better this way.