| Should members have to declare more details? | |
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| Nov 30, 2006 07:31 |   |
 | Many of our members do not tell us their gender, their city or even country. Should TCG make some of this informtion mandatory for members? I believe it would be helpful to know more about a person when trying to help them or just in general discussion. What do you think? |
| Nov 30, 2006 18:46 | #1 |
| Well, personally I don't think it is necessary. This is not a courtroom, nor is it a private courtyard. This is an online forum. Can you imagine this happening in the street?? Mr. Lost: " Hello, I am male(after all, nowadays it's hard to judge people's gender from their appearance), from England, arrived in Beijing the day before yesterday, I am staying in Holiday Inn, which is located in # xx, xxxx street, xxxx district, and my room number is 1234 etc...... Would you please tell me how to get to Tian'anmen Square? Ms. Local: "Ok, I am Chinese, living in Beijing(of course), female and you can take bus # xxx, and get off at the Tian'anmen Square station. Have a good trip. hahaha |
| Nov 30, 2006 19:58 | #2 |
| Can't agree more with Cortex! |
| Dec 1, 2006 00:56 | #3 |
| To Cortex, The dialogue you made is so cute, haha...how about trying to have a talk show or drama about it. Anyway, what you said is so ture! |
| Dec 1, 2006 15:33 | #4 |
| I've certainly wished from time to time that members provide more detail... ...but making it mandatory? No way. It is the Internet, people would just lie. |
| Dec 1, 2006 20:14 | #5 |
| Time for me to re-enter... actually I thought there might be ratehr more interest. Personally I would like to see people provide more information. When I read a viewpoint I would like to understand a bit more about the writer. When a question is asked and I consider offering information, I sometimes wwant to know more about the person...the answers can be different. A few times I just haven't bothered answering because of the lack of info. Sure,some will lie, but that is their loss. |
| Dec 5, 2006 02:20 | #6 |
| I agree. Whoever provides more information is only helping themselves, as it's easier for us answerers to give more detailed and useful information. This's especially true when asking about visas. It's imperative to indicate what passport you're holding as the rules are vastly different for different nationalities. Same goes for itinerary suggestions. I'm sick and tired of the generic "where should I go with x days in China" question. It's impossible to give any really useful answer when you know nothing about the person, let alone interests and preferences. |
| Dec 5, 2006 22:21 | #7 |
| I'm sitting on the fence on this one Apault. Mainly because the reasons for remaining reasonably anonymous are as good as those for supplying more details. I think it might cut down on spam if members had to input more mandatory information. Though this does not necessarily have to be made public. Many websites require you to input information which you can then choose to make public or keep private. Agree a lot with your & Ellyse's comments that extra information is required when asking specific questions. But perhaps it is as well for the person seeking advice to put this information in with their question. I'm always amazed at the amount of people who happily post their email addresses for everyone to see... I'd never do that !! I can understand that many people don't want to give out too much information about themselves and I currently think it would be unfair to make it mandatory for members to supply details, although... perhaps further discussion would change my mind. |
| Dec 6, 2006 02:33 | #8 |
| I appreciate those who declared specific info about himself/herself. Occasionally,I got some msgs from some strangers and they ask me some questions,the first thing I want to know is who are they,if there isn't any information about the member,I seldom answer those questions, because I think if u want to get my help,at least you should let me who you are. |
| Dec 6, 2006 03:15 | #9 |
| I definitely agree. I also have random travellers who mysteriously add me on MSN and then get pissy at me when I keep asking them where they got my MSN contact from, where did they find me, who are they, where are they from, etc, before I want to start answering their questions. And it's not as if my email address is the same as my MSN contact, so it's really puzzling. Most of these people get irritated and angry at me when I ask them to answer my questions before I answer theirs, and they complain that I'm unfriendly and rude. Why on earth should I be obliged to answer your questions and be all sugar and nice to you? To me this's akin to having some random stranger coming up on the street and quizzing me about stuff and "demanding" answers from me. I don't chat up random strangers on the street IRL, so why should I change my rules simply because it's online? Sorry, end of rant. |
| Dec 6, 2006 03:55 | #10 |
| Exactly,ELLYSE ^_^v "Why on earth should I be obliged to answer your questions and be all sugar and nice to you?" Yeah,if u want to get help, at least let me know who you are and show your respect and sincerity. |
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