"Member" under Name is all but useless..

Talk Discussion in 'BeerAdvocate Talk' started by BeerThursdays, Feb 23, 2012.

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  1. BeerThursdays

    BeerThursdays Initiate (0) Feb 28, 2010 Delaware
    Trader

    Wondering if instead of the word member, it could be something like your state, country, join date, et... I know the Bros will say "Founder" but everyone else is always going to say member. Just think it's something that could provide more info.

    Again, I know it's early, just spitballing here.
     
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  2. stupac2

    stupac2 Pooh-Bah (2,031) Feb 22, 2011 California
    Pooh-Bah Society

    It's probably going to eventually.
     
  3. aasher

    aasher Grand Pooh-Bah (4,471) Jan 27, 2010 Indiana
    Pooh-Bah

    They've already said no to this being replaced by location. I say we take a vote!
     
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  4. ShanePB

    ShanePB Initiate (0) Sep 6, 2010 Pennsylvania

    Useless now, yes but once they hopefully migrate over Karma/points that might be reflected with a different title. I've seen it done that way on other websites that use this exact same forum platform.
     
  5. ShogoKawada

    ShogoKawada Initiate (0) May 31, 2009 Pennsylvania

    Yep, Shane said it. Hopefully the Bros. will find something cool to plug in there.
     
  6. BeerThursdays

    BeerThursdays Initiate (0) Feb 28, 2010 Delaware
    Trader

    Guess I should have searched (which is greatly enhanced here).

     
  7. Jeffo

    Jeffo Pooh-Bah (2,850) Sep 7, 2008 Netherlands
    Pooh-Bah Society Trader

    Yes to putting location there. That was always very useful, especially for people outside the USA (I hope we count too).

    Jeff

    EDIT: I see. I guess I'll have to hope people do it themselves. Will have to try to figure that out soon.

    EDIT II: Love that I can edit forever now! Anyways, forget my first edit. The free form field has been turned off I finally understand, so it's basically useless "member" now. I'm for putting location and join date there, or opening it back up so I can put them there myself. Very useful for trading and meeting people who've got some background here.
     
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  8. podunkparte

    podunkparte Initiate (0) Nov 14, 2009 Washington

    Location and Join Date x2. I think we definitely need location under the avatar at least.
     
  9. Agold

    Agold Maven (1,251) Mar 13, 2010 Pennsylvania

    +1 to member being useless for now. Unless there are some distinctions made in the future it might as well say "Human". Some things that I would love to see there would be location, join date, post count, perhaps when there are more trophies, those trophies, or let it be up to the user in which case I would suggest a mandatory haiku format.

    My information
    May be under avatar
    But only like this
     
  10. BeerThursdays

    BeerThursdays Initiate (0) Feb 28, 2010 Delaware
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    Deploy all the things!
     
  11. tcampbel1

    tcampbel1 Initiate (0) May 17, 2010 Oregon

    Please let's stop the talk of our "member's" status.
     
  12. khiasmus

    khiasmus Initiate (0) Jun 12, 2006 South Carolina

    So now the question is, should I reply with a "x3" or should I just hit the "like" button?
     
  13. Jcb890

    Jcb890 Initiate (0) Jan 28, 2008 Massachusetts

    I guess I'd be OK with that being location. Doesn't need to be full location, but state/country would be nice and/or helpful.
     
  14. Todd

    Todd Founder (13,254) Aug 23, 1996 Finland
    Staff Super Mod Pooh-Bah Society Trader

    This has already been discussed.
     
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