Suggestion: Add no-one/self-only option to profile privacy drop-boxes.

[Legobricks]

Or something to the effect of 'self and staff only'; whatever works.

I was hoping to set my profile's recent vistors to something like that.

 

[Xyrin]

I don't really see the point in this...

 

[Nihilego]

I do. I'd like to see this really. I prefer to keep stuff on my profile as minimalistic as possible so it'd be nice if I was the only one able to see my recent visitors and stuff.

 

[Palamon]

I don't think this is possible yet. There is no need for an option like this...

 

[Legobricks]

There is no need for an option like this...

Likewise, there's no need for anyone to see every part of my profile.
Of course an option like this isn't necessary, I just thought it'd be to nice to have if it's no trouble to implement.

 

[Ivysaur]

I don't see why not, honestly. Higher staff should still be able to check them just in case, but I don't see why anybody else should be able to see them if the member doesn't want anybody else to.

 

[Nick]

I'd certainly put this to good use.

 

[Vrai]

I don't really see the point in this...

The point is so that you can have friends and at the same time keep parts of your profile private. :) I would also put this to use if it's possible to work. :D

 

[Melody]

While I see how it can be used...I oppose this. Why? Because honestly, I don't particularly like it when people hide stuff. Some things are indeed worth hiding, and some things are indeed private, but I believe that the privacy options we have currently are fine as they are. We don't need to just be able to hide everything!
Plus I like to stalker box on people's profiles...I like seeing who's stalking who anyway.

 

[Vrai]

While I see how it can be used...I oppose this. Why? Because honestly, I don't particularly like it when people hide stuff. Some things are indeed worth hiding, and some things are indeed private, but I believe that the privacy options we have currently are fine as they are. We don't need to just be able to hide everything!
Plus I like to stalker box on people's profiles...I like seeing who's stalking who anyway.

Maybe I just don't want people to stalk me, then. I don't see why anyone would oppose this unless they just want to know things about some people that those people don't want anyone else to know.

 

[Melody]

Honestly, you shouldn't be posting this information where all can see if you don't want people to know it. I think hiding that box is pointless. It's not a violation of anyone's privacy, we can see where any one person is online anyway if we choose to. You certainly don't use invisible despite it hiding you from all but staff. Why hide more of your profile??

It's utterly pointless. If you are afraid of being found, scrub your account clean and start fresh on a new alt or something. :/
If there's one thing I've learned at PC, you can't really escape the past unless you start over. Deal with it.

 

[donavannj]

I don't see why we shouldn't implement this. I probably wouldn't use it, but this idea makes plenty of sense as an option.

 

[PinkPirate]

I read this suggestion 3 minutes after it was posted and thought it was a good and relatively simple idea. I had nothing to say except "I second the motion" and other useless things at the time. I will admit I am suprised by the vehemence displayed against this idea.
Most people wont use this. But the fact that some WILL is what makes this an idea worth considering. I probably wouldnt use it but I find a certain amount of primitive comfort knowing that I could up my privacy.
What is so wrong with letting someone choose if only they get to see some of their profile?

 

[Oryx]

Honestly, you shouldn't be posting this information where all can see if you don't want people to know it. I think hiding that box is pointless. It's not a violation of anyone's privacy, we can see where any one person is online anyway if we choose to. You certainly don't use invisible despite it hiding you from all but staff. Why hide more of your profile??

It's utterly pointless. If you are afraid of being found, scrub your account clean and start fresh on a new alt or something. :/
If there's one thing I've learned at PC, you can't really escape the past unless you start over. Deal with it.

You're escalating this into some dramatic huge situation, where someone who sets something to private does it out of an emotional decision due to a fight with another person, hiding themselves away out of a debilitating fear or something. Not everyone does something to cause drama. You can set something to private without any ill feelings towards anyone, just because you're a private person.

You can't control Recent Visitors btw. The other ones can be posted in, but honestly what I would use that to do would be to clean up my profile. If I chose not to use the About Me section, I would hide it so that tab wasn't sitting on my profile blank. If this was an option, I would hide my Albums, just because I don't use them and having the box there is messy. I would prefer my profile to only have links to things that I intend to use.

So there are enough good reasons to implement it, and the only negative reason that's been introduced with any reasoning behind it is yours, which is "It shouldn't be allowed because I like to stalk people". While that reason is a tad better than the "pointless" and "not needed" reasons, it's not a very good reason for the staff not to do it.

 

[Lily]

While I see how it can be used...I oppose this. Why? Because honestly, I don't particularly like it when people hide stuff.

Your reason for opposing this is really because you don't like it when people hide stuff...? I agree with the above; I think you're making the issue to be bigger than it really is. Not everyone is out there to hide something from you.

I don't see anything wrong with this idea. Your own personal choice in the end, it would be a neat feature for some of us, and wouldn't really do anyone harm.

 

[Melody]

...Had to be the Devil's Advocate.

I probably should have mentioned more than "I don't like it". My main beef with it is the one and same argument you have against my reasoning for not liking it. The things you'd like to hide? They technically aren't harming anything. I mean seriously, not even the "Recent Visitors" block has potential for any damage as far as I've seen and we have the options in place to go back to an "Old school" profile which includes none of that if you're interested in keeping useless information from being displayed.

So what if those unused boxes bug you? You can collapse 'em, use Adblock Plus or other addons to hide them...and more. They're not really anymore intruding than some of the features people insist we add, myself included in that group.

Don't get me wrong, this is as good an idea as they come...but I don't think it's really important in the grand scheme of things. If I were an admin, I'd rather bite the bullet and move to the next version of vB and hope that the minor things that bug us are either fixed, amended, or changed. Not to mention that a good portion of the ideas I'm seeing here could probably be suggested for the next vB release instead of here...because I'm sure it'll take that much longer for the administration to decide to, and perform the move to the next version anyway.

I'm a champion of privacy usually. But this is a point I think where we're defeating the point of what we've deployed on PC so far if we do it.

 

[Taemin]

@Lily "not everyone is out to hide somehing from you?" I don't think Pachy meant to single herself out. :/

Moving right along.
Since I do agree with Pachy's post in a way, because I admit it's fun to see people's Profile Views list, or different parts of their profile. Though at the same time, if they want it hidden, I do think they should be allowed to have that option. Like Nick said, it could be put to use. xD

 

[Lily]

'You,' as in general. Not everyone is out to hide something from you (the people reading this). I'm not singling anyone out.

@Pachy - I see what you mean, but if the things you'd like to hide aren't harming anyone, then it goes the other way too; you should be able to hide it without harming anyone. I think it's a neat little feature that some people will appreciate. Up to the staff in the end. ^_^

 

[Oryx]

...Had to be the Devil's Advocate.

I probably should have mentioned more than "I don't like it". My main beef with it is the one and same argument you have against my reasoning for not liking it. The things you'd like to hide? They technically aren't harming anything. I mean seriously, not even the "Recent Visitors" block has potential for any damage as far as I've seen and we have the options in place to go back to an "Old school" profile which includes none of that if you're interested in keeping useless information from being displayed.

There are very few suggestions that are suggested because they "harm" something the way it is. This is suggested because the person who suggested it would use it, and people posting in this thread that agree would use it. Imo, that's all a suggestion needs to be viable, unless the suggestion really does harm something if it's implemented. What if you want something like a Twitter box but not a Recent Visitors box?

So what if those unused boxes bug you? You can collapse 'em, use Adblock Plus or other addons to hide them...and more. They're not really anymore intruding than some of the features people insist we add, myself included in that group.

What I'm saying is that if we have the option, we hide it for everyone. Sure, I can hide it for myself, but what if I'm going for a minimalistic look on my profile and want it all to be gone for everyone?

Don't get me wrong, this is as good an idea as they come...but I don't think it's really important in the grand scheme of things. If I were an admin, I'd rather bite the bullet and move to the next version of vB and hope that the minor things that bug us are either fixed, amended, or changed. Not to mention that a good portion of the ideas I'm seeing here could probably be suggested for the next vB release instead of here...because I'm sure it'll take that much longer for the administration to decide to, and perform the move to the next version anyway.

If an admin comes around and says "this is really difficult to do", then I'll concede. But until then, I don't see why this shouldn't be implemented other than it's "unnecessary", which pretty much every feature is, so if we're going by that logic, why change anything ever?

 

[Masqueraine]

Or something to the effect of 'self and staff only'; whatever works.

I was hoping to set my profile's recent vistors to something like that.

Not saying it wouldn't be a good addition, but in your case isn't setting it to friends only enough? You only have four and staff are probably going to be able to see it regardless even if a feature is implemented.. unless you plan to add a whole bunch of people slash don't trust the four you have with seeing who looked at your profile.