People afraid of exposing their nationality at CodeProject?
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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
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
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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
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.
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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
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
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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
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.
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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
"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. :)
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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...
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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"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. :)
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
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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...
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. :)
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb) John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others."
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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
dizzlingdon wrote:
I told you there are lots of bugs in cp forum.. and you are flaming me for that
Many newbies wait for more than their second post before informing all and sundry of the problems they and they alone have discovered in their 4 hours as a member. Oh, by the way, there's a forum for bug reports and suggestions, but I guess you are too lazy to find it.
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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
so keeping the default values makes me an idiot. I am happy to be an idiot in that case :). Anyway my point was people select their country as USA not because they want hide their nationality... Just because it is the default value
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There are a lot of people here (U.S.) that don't know English...and some that are lacking in intelligence so it might not be a language problem at all. :doh:
modified on Tuesday, July 29, 2008 1:11 PM
Scorch wrote:
and some that are lacking in intelligence
No! Say it's not so! In our country? ;) ;P
WE ARE DYSLEXIC OF BORG. Refutance is systile. Your a$$ will be laminated. There are 10 kinds of people in the world: People who know binary and people who don't.
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Nationality? There's no mention of nationality anywhere. There's the location in each user's profile, but location does not require one be of that nation's nationality, given that the general its actually true. I'm a Jordanian-Canadian residing in Jordan, but I don't feel at home here and actually consider myself an expat.
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Mustafa Ismail Mustafa wrote:
but I don't feel at home here
That's just because of the worms.... ;)
WE ARE DYSLEXIC OF BORG. Refutance is systile. Your a$$ will be laminated. There are 10 kinds of people in the world: People who know binary and people who don't.
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Scorch wrote:
and some that are lacking in intelligence
No! Say it's not so! In our country? ;) ;P
WE ARE DYSLEXIC OF BORG. Refutance is systile. Your a$$ will be laminated. There are 10 kinds of people in the world: People who know binary and people who don't.
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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. :)
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb) John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others."
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Why do you smell a rat when people who say they are from the US can barely write English ;-)
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Vincent Curry wrote:
Why do you smell a rat when people who say they are from the US can barely write English
I don't know, I was subconsciously expecting native speakers to be better than me... When I think about it now, you'd find illiterates in every country. Perhaps I am more struck by it because English is not my mother language, so if I see someone else speaking like that it must be the worst level possible.
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the heaviest the better. :laugh: that Roman general could have used heavy grain of salt as a poison too. ;P
Yusuf
Yusuf wrote:
that Roman general could have used heavy grain of salt as a poison too
And as scorpion's ammo. ;)
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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
Member 4450649 wrote:
And most people (who are lazy like me) skip while creating the profile
You also skipped the username field apparently...
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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
Yusuf wrote:
Hey Chris, change the default to "Idiotsville", will ya?
:laugh: An interesting option indeed. Seriously though, a required field with a default blank option would do. I wonder if we would still see so many "Americans" because they would be now explicitly selecting USA?
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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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Rocky Moore wrote:
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
They will start adding combos. ;)
modified on Wednesday, July 30, 2008 4:47 AM
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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.
Don't forget to vote if the response was helpful
Sig history "You're an idiot." John Simmons, THE Outlaw programmer "I realised that all of my best anecdotes started with "So there we were, pissed". Pete O'Hanlon Unix is a Four Letter Word, and Vi is a Two Letter Abbreviation
Mustafa Ismail Mustafa wrote:
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
You are absolutely right. I didn't think about it that way. Still, probably a majority of users are of the same nationality as indicated by their location, with the exception of "Americans" who never were to the United States. ;)