Considering Retiring my Account

wikstrom wrote..................................But even the scenario you suggest seems impossible to me (but I am ready to learn if I am mistaken). If I go to Copenhagen (with my laptop) and log in to chess.com from there, I suspect that the map will still show me at Karamzininkatu in Helsinki?

No it will show Copenhagen, that's why the map is interactive.

People have been fired from their jobs caught lying on Facebook, taking day's off to see their sick mother in hospital and their employer founds out you are on Ibiza from photos posted on their profile.The interactive map can be used to a lot of things and in many countries it wouldn't  be legal if you haven't been given  the opportunity no to be on it (That is called privacy which still is very important to a few of us).

I see that chess.com is doing something to help solving it, although I can't understand that Eric as a privat person can't see it being a major problem. 

But in the end thank you chess.com for chancing it and it still is a great site,(to me one of the best sites on the world wide net) though it is quite difficult to get through with criticism without being yield at. 

Well, one thing you can be sure of...  I have only given Rabat, Morocco.  The map has shown my actual location - which I never offered.  Beyond that, I don't know how this thing works.

Dear Afaf

Get A Life

Yours sincerly

Francis

Anyone who hasn't read the last few pages, before responding, please read eriks (site owner) response on

posts 123, 124, 133 and 142.

Eric also wrote "not as a site owner"

..".i'm holding my response because people tend to over-scrutinize what i say. so my opinions aren't viewed as personal opinions (which they are), but as some kind of official chess.com doctrine or something? i mean, i gave my opinion above and i'm told i act like a high school boy. i agree that i should be allowed to have opinions, and to argue them, but people hold me (fairly, or unfairly, i don't know) to a different standard. so even if i politely disagree... it doesn't matter. it' hard to try to please everyone, but also be myself. :)"

Thanks for that I didn't know kohai :)

francisbirkthing. 

I hope you are not holding a grudge.  You were far too ugly for me to accept your friend request. 

Even more sincerely,

Afaf

Why has this turning into yet another mud slinging thread? I am turning tracking back off :(

I'll try being nicer if you'll try being smarter

Pass.

from what I've read Frank, afaf runs rings round you on the 'smartness' stakes, an' she already a bloody sight nicer - you is gonna have to try harder, an' it don't cost nuffin'

Man! that's a really difficult mission to take on!  How was Zebra?  Giraffe? 

Which critter--for those who don't know, critter is a synonym for ungulate where I come from--is leading in the taste department?  I vote for pig, with lamb running a close second.

Afafs reply to 'I'll try and be nicer if you try and be smarter with 'pass' openly declines to try and be smarter. 

Complaining about not being able to post pictures of a 'holiday ritual goat sacrifice' on chess.com

Chetumals account was closed because she was posting death threats. Afaf however feels aggrieved because 'it appears a ghost has been there and you are responding to a imaginary friend'

Yes, it would seem we are clearly in presence of a genius when it comes to afaf, I am very sorry big beardy man.

Oh, wow. This thread grew overnight.

After reading Erik's replies, I can glean why he does not see this as an issue. It is understandable. He lives in a fairly large city, and it is true that, for a casual person, tracking down somebody in a city is relatively difficult. Far from impossible if certain tricks are known, and made easier with each additional piece of information revealed in a profile/post/article/photo album - especially if the map gives a specific area within the city - yet still probably won't happen unless the tracker is rather determined.

But the problem is that not everybody lives in a city. There are remote communities, small towns, villages, even worksites that are so far from civilisation that the only practical solution for employess is to live on-site. I believe that this was one of the core principles of Afaf's point, as she did say that she lives in such a place. Now, I don't imagine finding somebody in such a community who posts their name and image to pose much difficulty at all, given a little dedication.

I'm glad that Erik is looking in to a solution. The general feeling of replies gives me the impression that an option to decline being shown or the map going by profile location would both be more than acceptable solutions to most users bothered by this issue.

Thank you to kohai, without whom I would surely have missed Erik's posts.

Archedoltes!  Awesome. 

I ought to look in to changing my username.

Oh god, is doltify still in usage?!  That's my new throwdown before every game...

Doltify?  I don't think you can just verbicize nouns like that.