I am a toxic flea with a dick. Great!
Eliminate me (for not being social-network friendly).
Here I am ... waiting ... (very patiently, please make your move) ...
Eliminate me (for not being social-network friendly).
Here I am ... waiting ... (very patiently, please make your move) ...
Guys. Relax. The poster had an idea. Even if you disagree with the idea there is no point in insults.
Well, even if we got no where with the idea, at least this thread brought me a few chuckles.
Mr Charles why don't you count to 10 before post your idiot messages?
lmao
10 ... 9 ... 8 ... 7 ... 6 ... 5 ... 4 ... 3 ... 2-1000, 1-1000 ...
Thanks @lovlas
Are you happy now @President_DonaldDuck and @JoeBastianich ?
Thanks @lovlas
Are you happy now @President_DonaldDuck and @JoeBastianich ?
@MrCharles Sure, but what would really make me happy is if someone could answer my question, which was: under what possible scenario would giving a city to go with an anonymous lichess nick suddenly result in hordes of stalkers showing up at your doorstep?????
What really gets me, as someone who IS concerned with security and privacy myself, is that most of these same people probably have a smart phone and use facebook. So on one hand there are these actual serious threats to your information that are so high that it's hard to overstate or describe just how bad they really are. And on the other hand there's voluntarily giving us the option to tie a city to your anonymous lichess nick. And which one do people get worked up about?
It would be like if your house is on fire and your fence needed paint, so wanting to take good care of your house you go out and paint the fence. It's so silly, I can't even formulate.. All's I can say is Quack quack!
What really gets me, as someone who IS concerned with security and privacy myself, is that most of these same people probably have a smart phone and use facebook. So on one hand there are these actual serious threats to your information that are so high that it's hard to overstate or describe just how bad they really are. And on the other hand there's voluntarily giving us the option to tie a city to your anonymous lichess nick. And which one do people get worked up about?
It would be like if your house is on fire and your fence needed paint, so wanting to take good care of your house you go out and paint the fence. It's so silly, I can't even formulate.. All's I can say is Quack quack!
@President_DonaldDuck
Why don't you post all personal information you think pertinent or relevant to share on your personal profile here on LiChess, and we'll go from there.
Remember: You asked for it.
Oh, wait ... no change or update? Happy with what you've shared? Then why do we need to implement the features the OP suggested?
The OP is free, at any time, to post his/her own personal information to his/her own comfort level, at any given time. Why do things need to change to enable "social networking" (for others to go look each other up). Why not just send your "friend" an e-mail and say: "Hey, I know you play chess, do you play on LiChess? My username on LiChess is XXX. Hit me up, bro!"
Ah, but for: "I don't know person." or "Person is not friend."
The thing we've seen, especially recently, data breaches aside, is how data and information is first gathered, and then aggregated, and then leveraged for purposes other than the seemingly innocuous original intent. "Oh, hey, we're gathering that data, we can just adjust TOS to gather a tiny-bit more and augment one dataset to extend it elsewhere...."
Starts small. Gets out-of-hand. I'd rather err on the side of caution and put-down bad ideas before they get carried away and out of hand. I'd rather err on the side of caution than end-up in a "WTF have I done" situation after-the-fact, because despite all mounting evidence, I was dumb enough to implement thoughts and features tried by others, etc...
It's not the "hordes" of normal people that concern me. It's the few freaks out there that scare the hell out of me. (Especially the freaks who have a great "idea" which doesn't pass stuff and have to have their own way about things; and when rejected or snubbed get bent.)
Go back to what I originally said ... you don't need "social networking" on a website like this. If you have a friend, just contact the friend. If the person is really a friend, the person will contact you, or respond to you, or be thinking about you, etc. Else, the person probably isn't a friend, and you don't need "social network" like features to bother and hound people around the Internet or websites, etc.
For that matter, I've seen it before: People sharing contact information otherwise. "I'm this username on other website." -- And for people who have connections across websites, such as people post links to their profiles on other websites -- this is already enabled for those so comfortable with doing so. Why do we need to "add" more features to further support this? Because some crazy loner dude comes up with a great idea that's already been done everywhere else: "Oh, hey, you should implement a crazy stalker-ish search feature so I can go and have lunch with Magnus Carlsen because I know he wants to hear from me."
Yeah, dude. Whatever.
Why don't you post all personal information you think pertinent or relevant to share on your personal profile here on LiChess, and we'll go from there.
Remember: You asked for it.
Oh, wait ... no change or update? Happy with what you've shared? Then why do we need to implement the features the OP suggested?
The OP is free, at any time, to post his/her own personal information to his/her own comfort level, at any given time. Why do things need to change to enable "social networking" (for others to go look each other up). Why not just send your "friend" an e-mail and say: "Hey, I know you play chess, do you play on LiChess? My username on LiChess is XXX. Hit me up, bro!"
Ah, but for: "I don't know person." or "Person is not friend."
The thing we've seen, especially recently, data breaches aside, is how data and information is first gathered, and then aggregated, and then leveraged for purposes other than the seemingly innocuous original intent. "Oh, hey, we're gathering that data, we can just adjust TOS to gather a tiny-bit more and augment one dataset to extend it elsewhere...."
Starts small. Gets out-of-hand. I'd rather err on the side of caution and put-down bad ideas before they get carried away and out of hand. I'd rather err on the side of caution than end-up in a "WTF have I done" situation after-the-fact, because despite all mounting evidence, I was dumb enough to implement thoughts and features tried by others, etc...
It's not the "hordes" of normal people that concern me. It's the few freaks out there that scare the hell out of me. (Especially the freaks who have a great "idea" which doesn't pass stuff and have to have their own way about things; and when rejected or snubbed get bent.)
Go back to what I originally said ... you don't need "social networking" on a website like this. If you have a friend, just contact the friend. If the person is really a friend, the person will contact you, or respond to you, or be thinking about you, etc. Else, the person probably isn't a friend, and you don't need "social network" like features to bother and hound people around the Internet or websites, etc.
For that matter, I've seen it before: People sharing contact information otherwise. "I'm this username on other website." -- And for people who have connections across websites, such as people post links to their profiles on other websites -- this is already enabled for those so comfortable with doing so. Why do we need to "add" more features to further support this? Because some crazy loner dude comes up with a great idea that's already been done everywhere else: "Oh, hey, you should implement a crazy stalker-ish search feature so I can go and have lunch with Magnus Carlsen because I know he wants to hear from me."
Yeah, dude. Whatever.
Take 5, maybe 10 minutes of your own time. Work through the logic of asking for something like this. What is the true, root meaning or purpose of needing to search for others?
If you know someone, why not just be friendly and reach-out and contact the person?
I look at all of these issues in terms of ... if I were to install apps on my "smart" phone (which I don't) ... why do these freaking apps always ask me to share my contact book? WTF is the purpose or reason for that? Marketing / advertising? Okay, sure, I get it. But then I'm giving away information on other people who might not want to be bothered. So I don't do or agree with that kind of crap. I don't want 3rd parties knowing who my friends are. If I were to install an app because a friend recommends it, then, I'll go contact that friend first and foremost after installing the app, and then I'll ask my friends, privately, if they're using the app, rather than letting the app bother people on my behalf.
There is absolutely NO REASON to want, need or allow 3rd parties to in any way intrude upon or use your own personal address book or contacts to make connections second-hand; where purposes and intent and use are often obscured from your knowledge.
You don't need to seek-out someone you know, who is a "friend" (in some other city or location) anonymously. All you need to do, if this person is someone you know, and a friend, is reach-out and be friendly.
Take 5, maybe 10 minutes of your own time. Work through the logic of asking for something like being able to search for someone ... you already know ... why not just ask ...
???
If you know someone, why not just be friendly and reach-out and contact the person?
I look at all of these issues in terms of ... if I were to install apps on my "smart" phone (which I don't) ... why do these freaking apps always ask me to share my contact book? WTF is the purpose or reason for that? Marketing / advertising? Okay, sure, I get it. But then I'm giving away information on other people who might not want to be bothered. So I don't do or agree with that kind of crap. I don't want 3rd parties knowing who my friends are. If I were to install an app because a friend recommends it, then, I'll go contact that friend first and foremost after installing the app, and then I'll ask my friends, privately, if they're using the app, rather than letting the app bother people on my behalf.
There is absolutely NO REASON to want, need or allow 3rd parties to in any way intrude upon or use your own personal address book or contacts to make connections second-hand; where purposes and intent and use are often obscured from your knowledge.
You don't need to seek-out someone you know, who is a "friend" (in some other city or location) anonymously. All you need to do, if this person is someone you know, and a friend, is reach-out and be friendly.
Take 5, maybe 10 minutes of your own time. Work through the logic of asking for something like being able to search for someone ... you already know ... why not just ask ...
???
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