People afraid of exposing their nationality at CodeProject?

Vincent Curry

Why do you smell a rat when people who say they are from the US can barely write English ;-)

keyboard warrior

oh hahahaha :( i think about moving all the time. but where would i go where that i could see so much plaid and carry rifles to herd my sheep through town ;P besides, the big city does not seem to have very many places to tie up my horse any ideas for where i should move to?

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modified on Tuesday, July 29, 2008 1:25 PM

Yusuf

I noticed that too. It is not hard to guess where those people are from. Is it? My sense is that since membership was required to download from CP, we all have seen, some creating multiple *personalities* ( take that with heavy grain of salt). For some reason you will see people re-incarnating them self every now and then. (most of those are idiots who should not have touched the keyboard in first place, let alone to join cp) With wave and wave of such idiots, they left with bad reputation for users from that country. There are plenty good, competent and creative users, but the overwhelming bad leaving bad taste in the mouth. Thus, you started noticing some registering as their place US. Hmmm, As if that covers their a**. Hey if you are an idiot, then it does not matter where you live, you still are an idiot.

Yusuf

Whytespot

They hide it because of the blatant discrimination on this board.

Rocky Moore

Well, I don't know anymore.. Get really tired of those "press 1 for english, press 2 for espanol, press...". If they are not careful, they will run out of digits ;)

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led mike

Yusuf wrote:

take that with heavy grain of salt

Really? How heavy can a grain of salt be? :laugh: Grain of Salt[^] AFAIK the weight has nothing to do with it. ;)

led mike

Lost User

Which, as Yusuf pointed out, is likely to be largely due to themselves.. almost every idiot gets flamed anyway. And there are a lot of people who live *there* so also a lot of idiots - I doubt the idiot-to-programmer ratio is much different there

keyboard warrior

i do not think it has anyhting to do with nationality. it has to do with language barrier. i do not care where you are from, if you are asking for help in an english forum then you should probably have a strong command of the english language. this is the reason i do not post questions in german forums or spanish forums or chinese forums. chances are they will have no idea what i am asking if i can even put together the question.

----------------------------------------------------------- "When I first saw it, I just thought that you really, really enjoyed programming in java." - Leslie Sanford

dizzlingdon

I think the main reason behind country = USA in profile is that's the default one when you create a profile (It's not compulsory to change it while creating a profile). And most people (who are lazy like me) skip while creating the profile :D

Yusuf

the heaviest the better. :laugh: that Roman general could have used heavy grain of salt as a poison too. ;P

Yusuf

dizzlingdon

So the bigger question is why CP favours usa nationals... for us guyz outside usa have to select that drop down menu and search for our country name and USA people they get a nice default settings. Shouldn't cp registration webpage select the proper country from IP address automatically just like "orkut"

Yusuf

Member 4450649 wrote:

And most people (who are lazy like me) skip while creating the profile :D

Lazy is not synonymous with Idiot. I am lazy too, I try to cut corners where ever I can. But that does not make me an idiot? will it. If you are accepting all defaults including your ID "Member 4450649", then that speaks a volume about you. The only place, I do it such thing is, where I know I will not be back again. There are sights that force you to create an ID just for the slightest thing you want to do. If there is such info I care to see, I create a *dummy* account to access the site, never remember what I even choose for ID, never post anything. Hey Chris, change the default to "Idiotsville", will ya? :rolleyes:

Yusuf

dizzlingdon

Its me Member 44505649... I told you there are lots of bugs in cp forum.. and you are flaming me for that.. The moment i saw my handle is Member44505649 i changed it... but that did not change the handle in the already posted message!!!

Yusuf wrote:

Hey Chris, change the default to "Idiotsville", will ya? [Roll eyes]

you forgot u have to make the id unique.. :D

Single Step Debugger

dizzlingdon wrote:

you forgot u have to make the id unique.. :D

You want to restrict the forum to one member per country? Isn’t this a little extreme measure? :laugh:

The narrow specialist in the broad sense of the word is a complete idiot in the narrow sense of the word.

Yusuf

dizzlingdon wrote:

I told you there are lots of bugs in cp forum

Most *bugs* can be classified under "Stupid User* category. I don't see this as a bug. What else do you want CP forum to do for you? I think cp forum should assist in the magic pill research for idiocity. :sigh:

Yusuf

dizzlingdon

check out this one, It's about good UI design... ;) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuELwq2ThJE This video is really too long but it had a few good points that are obvious, 1) The user should not have to DO anything to get what they want. 2) The user should not have to SEE anything except what they want to see. 3) The user should not have to learn anything.

Zhat

"If you are accepting all defaults including your ID "Member 4450649", then that speaks a volume about you." Such as what? That he/she/it is lazy or ignorant or an idiot or what? Because they didn't change thier ID??? People who make rash assumptions can also be classified in this group, IMHO. I left my ID "Member 123456" (whatever it was) and other defaults on purpose for the longest time, not out of laziness or ignorance or whatever, but for a good, personal reason. Can't speak for everyone though, but I'm also not assuming that everyone fits into the same Volume you're referring to. :)

Mustafa Ismail Mustafa

Nationality? There's no mention of nationality anywhere. There's the location in each user's profile, but location does not require one be of that nation's nationality, given that the general its actually true. I'm a Jordanian-Canadian residing in Jordan, but I don't feel at home here and actually consider myself an expat.

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Yusuf

Give me one valid reason to accept "all" defaults. The only exception there to it is this. If you are accepting "all" system generated defaults then that speaks volume about you. Give me a break, you may not want to reveal your "true" identity, but at least change "some" that personalize your account without revealing your identity. Failing to do so will put you in that category.

Yusuf

El Corazon

Pawel Krakowiak wrote:

I noticed a few CP members who could barely write in English (I am not a native speaker myself) and asked stupid questions either in the Lounge or in the other forums. When I examined their profiles it said they were from the US. Yeah, right...

I am from the USA. New Mexico to be precise. I also speak only one language, English, to which my High School English teacher would argue that I don't even speak one. :)

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