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Location, location, location
- Blackhawk
- Posts: 30647
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- Location: Southwest Indiana
Location, location, location
This is just a personal plea, not a formal request or anything.
Please consider listing your location in your profile. A huge portion of what we're discussing these days - elections, the pandemic, schools, hurricanes, protests, police action - is location specific. Where you live, at least in general, is relevant to the discussion, and yet so many people have that blank or put something obscure in that spot. More than once I've read through a long thread trying to figure out what they hell someone was talking about only to find out that the reason was they lived in another country.
I'm not asking for your address. City would be good, but if you're particularly cautious or worried about being identified, even state would be enough to add the needed context to your posts (mine's just which corner of a state.) Super paranoid? "New England." "Pacific Northwest." But "Pale Blue Dot" just isn't useful.
Please consider listing your location in your profile. A huge portion of what we're discussing these days - elections, the pandemic, schools, hurricanes, protests, police action - is location specific. Where you live, at least in general, is relevant to the discussion, and yet so many people have that blank or put something obscure in that spot. More than once I've read through a long thread trying to figure out what they hell someone was talking about only to find out that the reason was they lived in another country.
I'm not asking for your address. City would be good, but if you're particularly cautious or worried about being identified, even state would be enough to add the needed context to your posts (mine's just which corner of a state.) Super paranoid? "New England." "Pacific Northwest." But "Pale Blue Dot" just isn't useful.
- coopasonic
- Posts: 17606
- Joined: Fri Mar 04, 2005 11:43 pm
- Location: Dallas-ish
Re: Location, location, location
I thought you were moving and was wondering why you were putting it in the meta forum.
Since I am already responding I will throw out an "I agree" or a +1 if you prefer. I will NOT ^ though.
Since I am already responding I will throw out an "I agree" or a +1 if you prefer. I will NOT ^ though.
-Coop
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- dbt1949
- Posts: 22246
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- Location: Hogeye Arkansas
Re: Location, location, location
I've listed my location. I'm not sure anybody knows where it is tho.
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aka dbt1949
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- TheMix
- Posts: 8308
- Joined: Thu Oct 14, 2004 5:19 pm
- Location: Broomfield, Colorado
Re: Location, location, location

... and, no, I don't.

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- Isgrimnur
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- The Meal
- Posts: 27096
- Joined: Tue Oct 12, 2004 10:33 pm
- Location: 2005 Stanley Cup Champion
Re: Location, location, location
Same issue here. I've tried changing multiple times in the past two days, using both http:// and https:// (using either of www.octopusoverlords.com or octopusoverlords.com ) and have always ended up with the error page.
- gilraen
- Posts: 3064
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- Location: Broomfield, CO
Re: Location, location, location
Weird...might be broken for some board styles. I'm on SE Square Left, and it let me change it back and forth just now without any issues.
- Isgrimnur
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- The Meal
- Posts: 27096
- Joined: Tue Oct 12, 2004 10:33 pm
- Location: 2005 Stanley Cup Champion
Re: Location, location, location
I’m on SE Sqare Left as well. It also just failed on my iPad, so the error is platform independent. The error also repeated on board style Hexagon and also with the site whitelisted in my ad blocker extension (though adblocking doesn't exist in my Safari/iOS platform, so that's a redundant finding).
- Kraken
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Re: Location, location, location
Everyone knows that Boston is the Hub of the Universe, right?
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- Skinypupy
- Posts: 16418
- Joined: Tue Dec 07, 2004 10:12 am
- Location: Utah
Re: Location, location, location
I just changed it on my iPad, seemed to work.
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- Blackhawk
- Posts: 30647
- Joined: Tue Oct 12, 2004 9:48 pm
- Location: Southwest Indiana
Re: Location, location, location
I wish there was a way to tag someone in here.
@fishpants ?
#fishpants ?
@fishpants ?
#fishpants ?
- FishPants
- Server WhOOre
- Posts: 4461
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- Location: Canada
Re: Location, location, location
I am able to change it without that error screen -- not sure what's different on your end? There's an update available for phpBB -- I'll install that once I have shaken off the cobwebs and have a cup of coffee (not that it necessarily will fix this problem, but maybe).
No.
- The Meal
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Re: Location, location, location
I have a :16 video of me clicking through the links resulting in the error message. If you'd like, I can email it to you.FishPants wrote: ↑Sun Aug 09, 2020 9:54 am I am able to change it without that error screen -- not sure what's different on your end? There's an update available for phpBB -- I'll install that once I have shaken off the cobwebs and have a cup of coffee (not that it necessarily will fix this problem, but maybe).
- Sudy
- Posts: 5722
- Joined: Sun Nov 21, 2004 3:11 am
- Location: Richmond Hill, Ontario
Re: Location, location, location
I have a 02:40:39 redux extended director's cut edition of me getting the error message. If you'd like, I can burn it to a double-density Ultra HD Blu-ray and courier it to you.
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- gbasden
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- Location: Sacramento, CA
- dbt1949
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- Location: Hogeye Arkansas
- Pyperkub
- Posts: 20351
- Joined: Mon Dec 13, 2004 5:07 pm
- Location: NC- that's Northern California
Re: Location, location, location
I'm kind of there. Is it sufficient?
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