Request for - and comments on - an Apolyton Location FAQ

[Legman]

About two weeks ago, I asked for comments in this thread in the OT, on the idea of setting up an Apolyton Location FAQ. I posed the question in the OT first, as I thought the people most likely to change their location field to something humorous instead of their actual location would be OT'ers. Anyway, the proposal got no negative responses, and I decided to go on with the idea.

I'm willing to start the Location FAQ and maintain it in the future. I'd like it to be placed here in the Apolyton Forum, as the intent of it is for all posters to be able to quickly find out the location of others without having to search for the username first (and possibly find that the location field doesn't reflect the location).

The idea is for me to collect the locations of as many posters as possible by looking at their profile/location field. Those that currently don't display their location in the location field can then post it here, if they are interested in being included in the FAQ. In other words, those that already display their location or post it here will be included - and those that prefer to keep their location to themselves will be left out.

Would this be a desirable feature to include in our community, DanQ and MarkG?

As an example, I've set up a mini-FAQ below with the locations of the people who replied to the aforementioned thread in the OT. I'm thinking of listing the posters alphabetically as well as listing the locations alphabetically, more or less as it's shown here. But I will need some ideas on how to format it better (especially the list sorted by locations).

Questions and comments to this suggestion are most welcome.

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Andz83: Germany, Cottbus
Bas: Netherlands, Groningen
Builder: Israel, Ashdod
Chowlett: United Kingdom, Cambridge
ColdWizard: USA, Upstate New York
Dr.Oogkloot: Netherlands, Amstelveen
Du_Chateau: USA, California, Riverside
Empress: USA, Louisiana
finbar: Australia, Sydney
GP: USA, Georgia, Atlanta
HsFB: Argentina, Buenos Aires
Hueij: Netherlands, Arnhem
Iain Lindley: United Kingdom, Manchester
JohnT: USA, Tennessee, Knoxville
Lancer: USA, Oregon Coast
Lefty Scaevola: USA, Texas, San Antonio
Legman: Denmark, Copenhagen
Lincoln: USA, Tennessee, Altamont
Midshipman: USA, Minnesota, Minneapolis
MOBIUS: United Kingdom, London
Monk: Denmark, Aalborg
Narck: USA, Texas, Houston
Patriqvium: Finland, Espoo
Phantom: Germany, Bavaria
phoenixcager: Singapore, Singapore
Provost Harrison: United Kingdom, Hull
reismark: USA, New York, Ithaca
Scouse Gits (all three of 'em!): United Kingdom, Liverpool
Seneca: United Kingdom, Bristol
Stefan Härtel: Germany, Hemhofen
Stefu: Finland, Joensuu
SuperSneak: USA, Oregon, Portland
Tizzy: United Kingdom, London
tonic: Australia, Melbourne
UltraSonix: Australia, Melbourne
WhiteKnight: USA, Louisiana

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Argentina
- Buenos Aires: HsFB

Australia
- Melbourne: tonic, UltraSonix
- Sydney: finbar

Denmark
- Aalborg: Monk
- Copenhagen: Legman

Finland
- Espoo: Patriqvium
- Joensuu: Stefu

Germany: Phantom (Bavaria)
- Cottbus: Andz83
- Hemhofen: Stefan Härtel

Israel
- Ashdod: Builder

Netherlands
- Amstelveen: Dr.Oogkloot
- Arnhem: Hueij
- Groningen: Bas

Singapore
- Singapore: phoenixcager

United Kingdom
- Bristol: Seneca
- Cambridge: Chowlett
- Hull: Provost Harrison
- Liverpool: Scouse Gits (all three of 'em!)
- London: MOBIUS, Tizzy
- Manchester: Iain Lindley

United States of America
- California
-- Riverside: Du_Chateau

- Georgia
-- Atlanta: GP

- Louisiana: Empress, WhiteKnight

- Minnesota
-- Minneapolis: Midshipman

- New York: ColdWizard (upstate New York)
-- Ithaca: reismark

- Oregon: Lancer (Oregon Coast)
-- Portland: SuperSneak

- Tennessee
-- Altamont: Lincoln
-- Knoxville: JohnT

- Texas
-- Houston: Narck
-- San Antonio: Lefty Scaevola

Edit: Updated November 16th, 2000 to include the people who actively posted their location in this thread or sent me a personal message to the same effect.
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[Provost Harrison]

Hi, I'm from Hull, Yorkshire, England, UK

[Builder]

too much americans...

[reismark]

Hometown: New York City
Current Residence: Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

[Dr.Oogkloot]

It's OogklOOt.

Aside from that, good work.

[Narck]

Klote, man

[tonic]

Great work - hope those with unspecified country fields in their profile will come forward. BTW it should be possible for those who know to dob in their mates.

[Narck]

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</font><font size=1>Originally posted by tonic on 10-31-2000 03:40 PM</font>
BTW it should be possible for those who know to dob in their mates.
<img src="/images/blue1.gif" width=100% height=1></font></td></tr></table></center>I would not suggest taking info from anyone other than the person in question, since we don't know whether or not they want their location disclosed.

For that matter, people who have their location field in their profile, may not wish to be added to the list either. I think it's safer to only add people who actually come to Legman's thread and announce they wish to be added to the list.

To give you one example from the age faq, I had one guy come in once and request that I take him off the birthday calendar. Even though his date of birth was in the age faq (and he didn't care about that) he didn't want it to be in the calendar. There may be ppl on the forums who have their location in their profile, but don't wish to be added to any list, for whatever reason. Just a thought...

[Chowlett]

As the field states, currently in Cambridge, UK. That's uni. Perm address is Troon, Scotland

[tonic]

Narck, your point is well taken. I guess I was a bit frivolous.

[UltraSonix]

Aussies:
AH is from Canberra, MidKnight Lament is from Melbourne, Biddles is from Melbourne, Bkeela is from Brisbane, and Hydey currently has: Troll of Carrum Downs, Victoria, Australia,Earth, which you could probably just list as "near Melbourne". I can't recall anymore Aussies right now - sorry if I've left you out.

edit: And there's someone from Darwin, but his handle escapes me...

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No, in Australia we don't live with kangaroos and koalas in our backyards... Despite any stupid advertisments you may see to the contrary...
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[Builder]

This thread definetly deserves bumping.

[UltraSonix]

Another Aussie (maybe):
Duke of the Stratosphear
King
Of Australia

But I've no idea which part of Australia he's from. Or if indee he's even in Australia.

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No, in Australia we don't live with kangaroos and koalas in our backyards... Despite any stupid advertisments you may see to the contrary...

[phoenixcager]

Good work Legman! Is there a way we can get more people to post their locations? Maybe you should put a link to this thread in your signature or something...

[Legman]

Thanks for the warm welcome you've given this idea - and for the eagerness I sense to get this thing set up. But for now (next couple of days), work with the FAQ will be put on hold - for two reasons:

1) I will need some kind of reaction (preferably with a stamp of approval ) from the admins on the whole idea of the FAQ before I continue to collect the info needed to set it up

2) I'm catching a nasty cold and I feel like I'm going down fast

- So until word is given by the admins, aa-choo! to you all for now.