for commenting on candidates from other states.

I don't really care if you include your location. I was just telling people that if they want to, they can, and how to do it.

I don't see the problem, really.

And he hasn't changed much.
Sometimes I agree with him sometimes I don't.
But he has always been condescending when his views differ from others.

Hmm...

Started reading in 2002 with a link from bartcop. First joined in early 2008. When du crashed I continued reading for years but didn't feel the need to rejoin.
I rejoined mainly to post in the one forum nobody wants to join.

So yes I remember when you first started posting here and some of those very controversial threads regarding your post on another site.

So yes hmm

And here I am, with the same screen name, 18 years later.

But when someone disagrees you can be condescending. We all can at times.
I will say I'm glad some of your veiws have changed since you first started posting here.

i’m up for it.

Look again at the OP of this thread. Someone wrote that they didn't know there was location information in profiles. So, I explained how to edit a profile.

What are you talking about? Weird.

He's gone. I'm not.

That's why I read then if I don't know the poster.

If I'm not familiar with the poster. Often, though, there's no information. I have a little bio in mine.

A profile will at least tell how long a person or bot has been here and how many posts they have made. If there are 200 posts in ten years, I get suspicious.

That can be useful info.

He will be missed when he is gone.

Thanks.

with no location. Happens a lot on DU. Like "Rainy night in ???" seems like it's raining all over the world...

“gas is $4/gal!” from someone in Texas isn’t going to get much sympathy from Californian who wish it were that low.

(Is anyone else old enough to remember “slightly higher west of the Rockies”?)

From Springfield, but leaves out the state. There are Springfields all over the country.

Do you know them?

There is also one in Canada. Our sister city. If I listed my town as location you would know exactly where I live so long as I put USA. There is also one in the UK. I am guessing that is how it got it’s name.

If you didn't fill it out when you signed up, it's not there. Unless your IP is recorded in the back end, there's no way to automatically register a physical address.
Of course, there are phone apps that will backtrack to IP addresses, which can always be used as a tracker unless you're going through a VPN.

It says so in my profile.

I gave up all pretense of being anonymous on the Internet. It's rarely difficult to identify someone who is very active in posting about things. I've been doxxed on several right-wing sites, and have received a range of threats over the past 20 or so years. I have a method for dealing with those who threaten. I find out who they are, using my own skills, and an attorney friend notifies them by Certified Mail that they should stop threatening me. Works a treat.

Anyhow, if you want to remain completely anonymous, you can try. That's your choice. This thread came about because someone wrote that they had no idea that people had information about where the lived in their profiles. So, I explained how to add that information. And that led to whatever has happened in this thread.

It would take someone good at tracking down people about 10 minutes to find out who I am, where I live, what my phone number is, etc. I don't care. My attorney friend has not had to send out one of those Certified letters for over a year.

Anyhow, I'm not telling anyone what to do,. I was telling people how they can do something if they want to.

There is nothing in the OP that suggests anything like that. I'm not exactly sure what happened. I don't even understand a couple of the replies.

Weird stuff.

See if you can find out who I am (and post results, if successful, with a PM).

Seriously, I would be v interested in knowing if it is possible.

I don't do that. The only time I do is if I or someone close to me has been abused in that way. I would never do it for any other reason. That would be a serious invasion of privacy.

Sorry, but absolutely not.

BTW, how would it be an invasion of privacy when I gave you permission to do so?

The R Crumb image of a harmonica player walking down a lane is four blocks away from my house.

And sometimes a year passes like nothing...

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please? I can't make any sense out of your reply. Thanks.