Filling out PROFILES

frank_f15 · Sep 10, 2004

seems to me that there is no harm and actually much to be gained by filling out ones profile. they are not asking for your addres, SS# , phone # !!! just the basics. area u live in. acreage, etc. helps to ans a question. BUT TO EACH HIS OWN.

Junkman · Sep 11, 2004

Please don't fill out your profile..... I already know enough about you and don't want to learn any more.... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

rtimgray · Sep 11, 2004

Great - now I'm gonna have to fill it out just to spite Junkman...but if I do, Frank wins....I've painted myself into a corner....

...guess it's time to apply a second coat.

Hambone · Sep 11, 2004

I already know enough about you and don't want to learn any more 

Agree

rtimgray · Sep 11, 2004

Hambone - it really doesn't bother me if you don't want to know anything about me. I was wondering how much longer it would be before some other folks piled on.

I'm glad to see that you guys have kept alive the Tractorbynet tradition of wanting everybody to express their individuality - just as long as they do it the same way everybody else does.

The idea of not filling out a profile just because I don't want to may seem childish, but it is certainly no more childish than saying "If you won't fill out your profile I don't want to know any more about you" or "If you are an experience TBNer that hasn't filled out your profile, I'm not going to answer your question" - that's real mature.

Maybe my not filling out my profile does indeed tell you more about me that one that is filled out does; I enjoy reading and posting on this board, but for as long as I have been a member, I don't really have a lot of posts - that's because I usually only get involved in things that I feel I can realistically shed light on.

I'm glad that I found out this was a hot button for some folks, because, as mentioned earlier in this thread, I never thought twice about my (or anybody else's) profiles.

MossRoad · Sep 11, 2004

Does it bother anyone else when you go to post an response to a post and go to the profile to see if that will help in your reply, but there ain't no info. 

Nope. Here's why...

You ever been on a bus and strike up a conversation with someone? Do they have on a t-shirt or nametag that says NAME, LOCATION, INTERESTS, etc...? Probably not, but you still talk to them anyway. As the conversation progresses, you find out a few things about them or you don't. You start to form an opinion of someone from the conversation, their body language, their tone of voice, and so on(you also decide if you want to continue talking to them or not). That's kind of the fun of it.

I have a tractor and it has a problem... /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif

What kind of problem?

Won't start. /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif

What kind of tractor is it?

A broken tractor. /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif

I meant what brand and model number. /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

Oh, I'm sorry. It is brand X and model 123. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

And so on... it is good conversation.

As for my own profile, I hung around long enough that I felt comfortable filling it out. If someone wants to read it, OK. I rarely read other folks' profiles. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

daedong · Sep 11, 2004

David,
Very well put.

rtimgray · Sep 11, 2004

MossRoad- you said what I've been trying to say, only much better. Good job.

Gary_in_Indiana · Sep 13, 2004

"80 percent of the questions brought up anymore have already been discussed, it seems like the asker is not willing to put in the effort to search the archives." 

Just because it's an old question doesn't mean there can't be a new answer. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

wroughtn_harv · Sep 13, 2004

You got it Gary.

I remember a couple of years ago answering welding and trailer questions and being somewhat of an authority with my limited knowledge and experience.

Now I get to be the one going to school.

And that ain't a bad thing. It's good to see the same old questions getting some really good answers.

Besides that, how we going to get to know the newbies without getting them into the conversation? And what better way to start a conversation than asking a question for the already been there done thats?