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Ron.M
Posts: 7051
Joined: Jul. 7 2003
From: Scotland
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Hi,
I've asked this before, but got a very half hearted response.
Any chance members could click on the "profile" tab at the top-right of the screen and fill in the box that says "From"?
I mean is there any chance of that?
Or is it too much of a ****ing bother?
It's difficult enough to communicate by text alone and a lot of the time you're trying to imagine who you are talking to.
For instance, I thought Jacinto was a Spanish aficionado and writing from Andalucia.
OK, then I learn he's an American flamenco fan living in New York or something.
(Don't let any b*stard start getting intellectual and start the "what does it matter..the words uploaded speak for themselves, unless you have certain preconceptions or prejudices" sh*t, or I'll delete your account permanently, I'm not in the mood.)
This DOES lead to confusion in trying to address comments.
At least folk know who they are talking to when I log on.
I'm a 59 year old Flamenco enthusiast from Scotland who enjoys playing around with Flamenco guitar as a hobby.
What's the problem with publishing that?
Christ, it's not like your ex-wife is going to find you or something just by mentioning in which part of the world you live!
So I ask again, can you please take the time to do this, we're not asking for your personal data and credit card info.
cheers,
Ron
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Date Jan. 11 2009 10:04:12
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Ron.M
Posts: 7051
Joined: Jul. 7 2003
From: Scotland
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RE: Profiles (in reply to Pgh_flamenco)
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Anyway, Ron, care to tell us where in Scotland you reside or is that a closely guarded secret?
What!?....My ex-wife might find out!
Jeez, I thought Scotland was just a dot on the map to you guys in the States. 
When I was in the States myself, sometimes folk asked me if Scotland "was, like in Europe?" after eyeing me closely for skin colour and facial features.
Anyway I live near Aberdeen.
I'll post a grid reference once I find it out.
Thanks for your co-operation folks.
There's no need for great detail.
If you live on the Frozen Tundra, we don't need to know exactly where you pitch your tent.
I know it's only a little bit more of a help and I don't really blame folk for not giving out too much personal data on the Net, with ID fraud and spammers, but sometimes I find it a bit strange conversing with a "disembodied voice", meaning someone who logs in with a made-up name and NO further information either in their profile or in their posts as to who they are, where they live, how they got interested in Flamenco and what their experience is to date.
Even when I was travelling in Europe, one of the most natural questions that fellow travellers would ask would each other is "Where are you from?".
In fact even fellow AMERICANS would ask each other, meaning which State or City.
When I reply to Ricardo, Florian, ToddK, Ailsa, Kate, Sara etc etc etc, I've got a good idea where they are coming from and can understand their point of view clearly.
But some others, I've no idea if they are 17 or 77, are from the USA or China, or are beginners or advanced players or even professionals working in Andalucia.
Even worse...
Someone could log on as say... EmilioBarajas.. and say he's being playing for 20 years and mention names like Viejin, Serranito, Jeronimo Maya and Amir Haddad like they were his buddies "Last time I spoke to Jeronimo he said..." and go on about the best tablaos and gigs in Madrid and write in a mixture of English and Spanish and I would probably listen to his technical advice and views very carefully even if a bit controversial, thinking he is probably a Madrid professional.
THEN 6 months later, find out that his real name is Hector Munro, an Accountant from Edinburgh who has played around with the guitar for 20 years and is beginner/intermediate level, largely self-taught from records and the guitarists he mentions, he spoke to only briefly after a gig on one of his two-week holidays to Madrid he's made over the last 3 years and is hardly any more qualified than me to hand out advice.
Ah dear...thus are the perils of the Internet.
BTW...Once I had a long email exchange with a girl about Flamenco Master only to find out later that it was a MAN!
But that's another story!
cheers,
Ron
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Date Jan. 12 2009 1:04:28
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srshea
Posts: 833
Joined: Oct. 29 2006
From: Olympia, WA in the Great Pacific Northwest
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RE: Profiles (in reply to Ron.M)
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Well, as someone who’s had his exact location listed on his profile for quite some time I feel that I deserve a big pat on the back for being so ahead of the curve on this issue.
But seriously, I’m all for this idea. This is the first and only forum I’ve ever gotten involved in, so I don’t have a whole lot of experience with “on-line” culture. This is partly due to the fact I’m put off and kind of creeped-out by several aspects of it, the whole anonymity element being foremost among them. It’s definitely nice to have a general sense that the person you’re “talking to” on line is some kind of actual person, with a real name, who lives in a real place, and so on. On the whole I think the Foro scores pretty high in this regard.
Additionally, and perhaps most importantly, given that this is an international, English language forum and there are so many people coming from so many different cultural backgrounds with potentially different communication styles, and with varying levels of facility in the lingua franca of the forum, it’s just helpful to know where people are coming from, so to speak. It seems like the potential for misreading or misunderstanding other’s posts is always around the corner, and the more you know about a person, and the more accurate the frame of reference you have to place their comments in, the better off we all are, I think. Oy, it’s almost three in the a.m. I need to get to bed, and maybe this is all nonsense, and uh……
Pgh= Pittsburgh. I didn’t know that! See, I’m already learning good stuff. All the people I’ve known in Portland, OR over the years, I’ve still never got a satisfactory explanation of “PDX”....
O.K., definitely time for bed.
Adam
Olympia, WA
The Great Pacific Northwest
SSN 636-71-4472
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Date Jan. 12 2009 1:59:04
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