Your profiles

Jeff · October 20, 2004, 02:46:40 PM

I now have a down and dirty way to add additional fields to our profiles. In the past I have said, just stick whatever you want in your signature file, but that hurts search results. Say if somebody searches for information on "LT15" as an example, and Whitepe has listed in his signature that he has an LT15, the search will return his posts, even though they probably are not relevant to what the person might be looking for.

What I am looking for here are ideas on what else we should or could include in profiles. Remembering we are not all sawyers or loggers or foresters or landowners. Thats not to say we cant have fields that apply to only one, such as sawmill type.

Bro. Noble · October 20, 2004, 03:00:25 PM

Jeff,

You are absolutely right ----that Whitepe is not relevant :D :D or is that irreverant?

:D ;) Well he would have said the same about me if he had thought of it first ;)

On the member info., this isn't what you are asking, but it would sure be nice to know a little about ALL the members. I even miss having the members locations during this transition.

Why not add some sort of reward for having abiography------maybe an ornament or bird or something in their trees. Maybe make it a requirement for 'full membership'

Jeff · October 20, 2004, 03:16:58 PM

Fixed your location request

Jeff · October 20, 2004, 03:20:38 PM

We could make it a requirement, but certainly we still must respect ones right to privacy so I don't know if that is something we should do. Some folks simply do not want to put their info "out there" problem is, it already is somewhere.

I am actually planning a little contest for once we get this done. You will have to have filled out the new profile to be entered in the drawing.

We did this a couple Christmas's ago and that is my plan for this year.

shopteacher · October 20, 2004, 03:37:53 PM

Great idea Jeff. I vote you put up a new Mercedes for the prize. My trucks getting a little old.

Kevin · October 20, 2004, 04:01:03 PM

Mercedes with a winch.

Jeff · October 20, 2004, 04:02:40 PM

Kevin, thats nice of you to offer, but are you sure you can afford it? Remember the term "exchange rate"?

Bruce_A · October 20, 2004, 04:04:34 PM

Jeff, for this uneducated typist, what you have just put into print, might as well be a language from some where in outer space. I failed to understand what you are doing, let alone how you are doing it. And I read it twice slowly.

Kevin · October 20, 2004, 04:09:14 PM

Bruce;
He's on medication.
Try to humor him.

Furby · October 20, 2004, 04:24:30 PM

:D :D :D :D :D :D :D
Carefull Kevin, you may end up loseing a limb instead of Jeff! ;D

Jeff · October 20, 2004, 04:32:12 PM

Here is a translator then:

Translator

Bruce_A · October 20, 2004, 04:44:37 PM

That is not really fair, now I have to add that to my favorites list. And I am already having trouble keeping up with the reading here. How do you ever keep up with it all.

Jeff · October 20, 2004, 05:13:20 PM

O.K., just for fun I added one. Click on my name and view my profile. see the category Food Group? Now, if you click on your profile button, you can set your's in your profile.

sprucebunny · October 20, 2004, 05:20:55 PM

I didn't understand a bit of it either, Bruce_A.
I just figured I'd go with the flow and whatever Jeff decided was probably the best for whatever reason.

Jeff · October 20, 2004, 05:23:06 PM

I guess my mistake was showing you what I needed to ad this? did my last post ad any understanding? I will remove the screen shots above to remove confusion.

Weekend_Sawyer · October 20, 2004, 05:26:24 PM

I'll bet DanG's foodgroup would be "Gritz"

mine would be "Omni" I'll try anything, even pinesap!

Weekend_Sawyer · October 20, 2004, 05:29:22 PM

Looks Like Jeff or someone with Omni privleges gave me gritz
An I like em 8)

Weekend_Sawyer · October 20, 2004, 05:31:39 PM

::)oh I see, everyone starts out with grits. ah well that's ok
kinda like an appatizer ;)

Weekend_Sawyer · October 20, 2004, 05:41:23 PM

Ah boss, I hate to keep pickin at it but now I got taters.

Jeff · October 20, 2004, 05:44:50 PM

I Know. ;D Heh heh heh

Kevin_H. · October 20, 2004, 06:20:48 PM

I had to go and make sure mine was on taters...Sorry, just cant do grits :-/

That line must be south of illinois. :D

Weekend_Sawyer · October 20, 2004, 06:53:09 PM

Heay now, I don't even know what Maramite is... But I'd love to try it :D

Jeff · October 20, 2004, 06:57:32 PM

O.K., now how about back to my original question on this. What sort of things make sense to have in an extended profile?

Weekend_Sawyer · October 20, 2004, 07:11:19 PM

Yea bet you'd like a real answer.

Ok, howbout favorite chainsaw, make of car, have you ever seen "Never Give An Inch" and did you like it.

The part of a user's profile that I like best is the Bio, I am most dissapointed when someone does not fill that out. I know you have tried to encourage folks to do it mabe it's time to remind folks again that they can tell us a little about themselvs, I mean really a forum is about talking.

Thas all I got.

Paschale · October 20, 2004, 08:27:57 PM

Jeff, I think you should pop up a reminder about the profiles and the bios every couple of months. I didn't even realize I didn't have a bio in there for myself. :

I think when people first join, like when I did, they're just mainly interested in checking out the info and maybe posting a random question here and there, so they really don't bother with filling out the bio. But over time, they realize that this is a DanG good place to hang your hat, and by that time, they'd probably be more interested in posting a bio, but they don't think to do it, just like me.

As to your original question, I think a category that just talks about what everyone's career is would be interesting--there's a lot of guys online who I wish I knew more about that part of their life, and if they're hobbyist sawyers, or full timers. A spot for "job description" or "day job" or something like that might be cool.

For what it's worth, if y'all wanna fresh bio to read, you can check out mine.