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Require country or time zone in EE Profile
Hi Folks,
I think it's a good idea to require a member to put his/her country, or at least the time zone, in the EE Profile. I suspect some folks may disagree due to privacy concerns, but that's why I'm posting the idea here — to generate some discussion on it. Of course, even if it is a required field in the Profile, there's no guarantee that the member will be honest in entering it, but I think it's worth trying, and I'm confident that most members will be honest about it. It would be helpful during an active thread to know the time zones of the participating contributors. Regards, Joe
I think it's a good idea to require a member to put his/her country, or at least the time zone, in the EE Profile. I suspect some folks may disagree due to privacy concerns, but that's why I'm posting the idea here — to generate some discussion on it. Of course, even if it is a required field in the Profile, there's no guarantee that the member will be honest in entering it, but I think it's worth trying, and I'm confident that most members will be honest about it. It would be helpful during an active thread to know the time zones of the participating contributors. Regards, Joe
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If anyone had real urgency to have questions answered, they would have a service contract with 24/7 on site and phone service for their emergency needs. If you ask on a forum, then you should expect delays. You get lucky at times because there are people from various time zones that participate. Long ago, EE sort of locks a question from new users by tagging the questions. When a question has been tagged showing that an "Expert" has answered it, it dissuades many newer users/Experts from answering.
EE should more prominently show that the experts are all volunteers and that this is basically a glorified discussion forum. Instead it tells people that they'll get one-on-on assistance and promote the site in a way to mislead people into believing that all of us are somehow employed be EE. You have to dig through the fine print to discover that the assistance is from some random volunteer that's not in the direct employ of EE.
EE should more prominently show that the experts are all volunteers and that this is basically a glorified discussion forum. Instead it tells people that they'll get one-on-on assistance and promote the site in a way to mislead people into believing that all of us are somehow employed be EE. You have to dig through the fine print to discover that the assistance is from some random volunteer that's not in the direct employ of EE.
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Expert Comment
btw This question is an example of how the member contry/timezone would add value, as the string '115,89' is either 115 point 89 and the country of origin uses the comma for the point, or it's two strings separated by a comma.
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Why? Just because... I think it'd be a 'nice' feature.
Nothing to do with question locking.