Do you guys like the idea that Anandtech lets google index your Profile?

[Net]

Also, if you really wanted to find personal info on me, wouldn't heatware be the best place the check instead of some spam site?

heatware does what this forum should do (read below).

Adding disallow to robots.txt as well as requiring a login to view users profiles is what a lot of forums do.

 

[alkemyst]

i don't hide behind the internet. It's funny when some asshat thinks he is a haxor and posts shit about me. This has happened several times since 1983 when I first discovered the internet (unix chat mostly overseas).

People try to hide but it's amazing how easy they are to find if you just search for commonalities of their interests and small portions of their username or signatures.

It always ends badly though..

 

[Jeff7181]

ZOMG! U meen teh intarwebs is not privite?

 

[waffleironhead]

Originally posted by: net
its a matter of personal privacy.

If you wanted it private then do not post it on a public forum.

 

[T9D]

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[alkemyst]

you need to download the analyticsease plug in.

 

[TurtleCrusher]

Yes. I LOVE it.

 

[Miramonti]

NO.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

LMFAO! I google my user name, and find myself quoted in an article in the St. Petersburg Times Floridian, about the movie The Punisher being filmed in Tampa. My quote is at the end of the article

Besides, DAPUNISHER of Rockledge wrote at www.countingdown.com: "Tampa outside of the downtown district is an old, seedy and crime infested city and is a better setting than New York just because many of us are tired of looking at New York."

Um, thanks, DAPUNISHER.

We think.

:laugh:

 

[Brainonska511]

I don't care. If I wanted it to be private, I wouldn't have put it on the internet.

 

[Modelworks]

If you read a lot of online sites you see a lot of paranoia about people online knowing who you are. It is really interesting when you think about it. People that are okay with their name being in the phone book, checks they write, mailboxes,etc are worried about people knowing who they are online. If you are doing something online that you don't want anyone to know about maybe you shouldn't be doing it. Anonymity because you are being stalked or in danger is one thing but the obsession some people have with it is really out of control. People tend to act like idiots online and often say things they would never say to a real person due to no accountability. That could change before long though as people are getting tired of a lot of the online trash talkers and lies people tell while online.