Private Profile option

"Admin & staff will continue to be the only ones able to see a user's email address and IP addresses as they always could."

Curious about this. What is/how does the relationship work between Boards, Admins and Users? Are the Admins considered Users (with elevated forum privileges) or are they considered to be part of Boards body corporate when it comes to the whole area of data privacy/access/control?Could there ever be a situation where an Admin could be held personally responsible in the event of a data breach? Or, is it a simple allowed delegation?

You make a good point but those trying to evade bans by setting up new accounts seem to be dealt with quickly enough, I'm not having a private profile makes to much of a difference, these users stick out like a sore thumb.

Which in itself is a big problem. Essentially just normal users with elevated permissions and access who Boards have no responsibility for (I'm guessing?) as they're not staff.

There's also an issue with the rather nepotistic "recruitment" policy for the mod and above roles but that's a different and long-standing issue.

I think all users should have access to the profile and easy access to posts of every user.

the reason I advocate that if say a poster has come to my attention and I’m seemingly beginning to think of them as a type of wind up merchant, oddball, troll or all the above… with access to their history of posting both style and content it’s a lot easier to identify it and them for certain…… can stick em on ignore and get on with it. They are marked.

there is no compelling reason really that I can see to have profiles private… none whatsoever.. it was a poor decision to enable the current situation because you are removing poster accountability to a certain degree.

you join… you make public posts.. the accessibility of a limited amount of info about your account should be accessible..like so…with all posts accessible too. Be a lot easier to whack people on ignore too.

everyone should be able to access info like..

Username Strumms

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& all posts..

...if that is the level of maturity of those put in charge of our personal data and keeping the peace, it doesn't foster much confidence in the system, now does it?

Was not aware that previous "convictions" are reflected anywhere on users profile (i mean publicly exposed part of it). Is it?

Do you think that unique user numbers will drop when you make this change?

I think they probably will.

I know Beasty has said this is a re-reg troll but I think @Boards.ie: Niamh needs to address it.

I wasn't at all implying you were snooping @Beasty.

Merely suggesting Niamh addressed it as lot of us have lost faith in Boards since the move to Vanilla after the reappearance of deleted PMs, the absence of a privacy notice, data protection concerns as the server is in Canada, visible emails debacle etc.