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Post by leek » 11 April 03 12:15 am

Would it be possible to make the user's location a required field... I notice a lot of users aren't giving any indication where they are based and this info may be useful for state by state admin...

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Post by ideology » 11 April 03 11:04 am

yes, it would be nice to know
we hesitate to make it a required field because (a) we don't really need to know it, and (b) if people don't want to give it, they will just fill it with dummy data and make it next to useless anyway

so we've put in a little message in the profile inviting people to at least tell everyone what state they are in

is that okay for the moment and let's see how it goes?

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Post by Two Goth Geeks » 11 April 03 11:10 am

Any chance of adding the user's Long/Lat to their profile? :)
Then, we could plot everyone. Or even use that for the HQ page

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Post by ideology » 11 April 03 7:58 pm

now that's a good idea! we'll add that to the list

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