Location Location

I don't know if we have any members of v20.com that live in the path of Isabel, but for those that may, from those that don't ; good hope is with you, and thanks in advance for taking the hit for the rest of us.

For a lot of good reasons, in addition to the above, it would be nice if the various members of wellcraftv20.com would update their profiles to include their location. You would not need to be overly specific - just the name of the state or fantastic tropical island paradise :) where you live.

Bigshrimpin, would it be possible to change the default setting to make filling in something under location mandatory to register? Just a thought to help make a great site even better.

[bigshrimpin]

There isn't a feature in the default install of Yabb which forces people to fill out their location. *There's a site devoted to configuring this board, so I'm pretty sure I can find it . . . I like the idea too, but I also think we should allow people to be anonymous of they want to be. * I just put my location on my profile . . .

Thanks, Bigshrimpin.

It would be really good if we could have the location automatically appear beneath the user name where it says yabba dabba doo i love you (what's that about anyway?).

On other sites I have seen location appear beneath each post automatically as well. It would help make sense of a lot of posts to know at a glance where the user is coming from. Especially in the fishing forum.

The reason for making it mandatory or a required field is just to serve as a prompt to let a new registrant know that this is important and useful info to help him communicate more effectively with the other members.

If anyone wanted to be in an anonymous location all they would have to do is put in some nonsense like cybersea or bouy 11. Although, I don't think saying what state you are from is terribly revealing ( except maybe for the three guys that fish in Rhode Island ;) ).

[macojoe]

I am from Cape Cod My A$$ A chew it !! ;D

[bigshrimpin]

Ok . . . Here's how to do it!! *

In your profile,
where it says personal text: type your location or whatever (instead of I love YaBB 1G - SP1!)

[macojoe]

By goly miss molly I think I got it!!

Works for me :) .

Now, how do we get newbies to do this when they are registering?

You're doing great so far, Bigshrimpin 8).

[bigshrimpin]

I'll put it on the "to do" list. Until I figure it out, I think an appropriate ammount of hazing from you guys should do the trick. 8)

Do you mean like this:

Yo newbie, whers yo *** at?

:o

[reelapeelin]

yo seakindly...here's my *** down in south carolina...striper fishin' these great reservoirs we got down here...it's hard work but somebody's gotta do it!!!

do a little close shore trollin on the coast some times(5 king makeral in 3 hours last june!)

dang, these v-20s is fun!