Suggestion Box: Post ideas you would like to see at HCW here. - Page 5

powerplay · 01-20-2007, 01:42:48 AM

I think the state display is a good idea also. It was however a surprise to click on HCW and immediately be required to update my profile and not be able to see anything else until that was done properly. I evidently didn't do it right and ended up in a DO LOOP until I selected both the state and input the numbers at the bottom of the page.

Looking forward to seeing what state everyone is in. I surely can't remeber all that when it is talked about in various posts.

summermay · 01-20-2007, 01:58:58 AM

I thought I had my state in my profile already. I didn't do it right either. Went round and round again. I'm I a live person... well I think so. :confused: I didn't understand the number thing either.

queenofthehivemomof5 · 01-20-2007, 02:14:27 AM

The number thing has been there for awhile to prevent spammers (who use a auto fill type thing most of the time) and it has prevented them thus far as we have had zero spam since putting it in place.

I need to figure out how to get the state to show next to your username though...not sure how to do that yet.

lanichan · 01-20-2007, 03:00:31 AM

Originally Posted by summermay

I thought I had my state in my profile already. I didn't do it right either. Went round and round again. I'm I a live person... well I think so. :confused: I didn't understand the number thing either.

Man, that drove me crazy. The "live person" portion wasn't highlighted so I just skipped it and went around in circles trying to figure it out what I was doing wrong. Weird cause I always had my stated listed. Whew, just glad to be able to get in.

billig · 01-20-2007, 06:43:59 AM

I was just going to check on this and it wouldn't let me until I updated my profile....hmmm, I'm a little slow but then that old light bulb blinked on as I figured what was happening!
So then I thought...gee, my wish is their command! how cool is HCW???
Ask and ye shall receive!

But my state doesn't show up. Infact, I thought I already had 'Minneapolis' on the right side but that's not there.

queenofthehivemomof5 · 01-20-2007, 06:50:57 AM

I have put in a request for mark to make the new profile field for state to show up next to your username, something to do with postbits ...blah blah blah...I dont know how to do that. LOL we will get it back up there so you can see at a glance who is from where.

editionk · 01-20-2007, 07:54:33 AM

I think some of us may prefer not to have our location be readily visible next to our user name. For admin to see demographics is one thing; how about making it optional for location/state to show up?

jessica117 · 01-20-2007, 08:36:32 AM

i like the womens[about points] idea thats to awesome...

Coinpurse · 01-20-2007, 10:17:26 AM

Originally Posted by editionk

I think some of us may prefer not to have our location be readily visible next to our user name. For admin to see demographics is one thing; how about making it optional for location/state to show up?

I'm one of those people. PLEASE make it optional. While I have, on occasion, indicated within a thread where I am located - I prefer that it NOT show up next to my user name on every post I make or in a profile listing, for that matter. I agree that Admin is one thing, but this is the only site I have ever joined that forces it to be visible.

billig · 01-20-2007, 05:31:20 PM

If you don't want your state to show, can't you just put the state next to yours? The whole point is to be able to figure out if deals are in your area, or if you should check first with your store before doing all the work of gathering coupons, and driving to the store.
Even tho' I live in a major metropolitan area (Minneapolis), I do not get every ad in my sunday paper. To know that someone is posting a deal by CVS and they live in Iowa vs. California is important to me and saves me the step of having to go online and download the ad. If they live in Iowa, the chances that my CVS has the same deal is very likely, and if they live in CA, it's very likely that my CVS will not be sponsoring the same prices/deals. Of course, if my paper just came with every ad that would be great, but even the inserts that come in the paper by the same newspaper company can be different by region here in Minneapolis! The 2 CVS's that are closest to me are 4 and 5 miles away, which is a wasted trip just to get an ad, or head there with coupons and see the deal doesn't exist.
And believe it or not, I really am for keeping your identity private, but I don't really see how your state will affect that. On this website we even discuss the actual locations of the stores we go to, indicating what deal is to be found, or if we cleared a shelf of a certain item or it has peelies.
My name appears "billig", but it has nothing to do with me. There's nothing you could search about billig that would lead you to me, except that it's Swedish for 'cheap'.
Of course all of this is JMHO.