(07-13-2016 01:04 PM)General Stalin Wrote: I think it would be great to have a "Did Members You've Met Look How You Pictured Them To Look?" thread. I've had some affirming and some unpredictable meetups.
I don't think this is a good idea Stalin.
Other members talking about what we really look like on a public forum...even as a comparison to the photos here (or what we expected them to look like) is a risk to our anonymity in this dangerous age. For the members I have already met in person, I will never say publically whether they are tall, short, white, black, caucasian, asian, bald, long haired, old, young....whatever.
All of us have a responsibility to keep this personally identifiable information about others we have met to ourselves and not post it here.
If a member wants to reveal physical aspects about himself, that's his own personal decision.
I was just reminded of this recently. Having known the negative attention this forum has always received on top of the fact that there are eyes watching 24/7 just waiting for a spot of blood to leak in the water you really can't blame guys for not sharing. Like the majority of members here, I've been very careful, for the most part, with what little sensitive info I posted.
During a recent conversation with a forum member who reached out to me I asked out of curiousity what his ethnicity was based on what we were talking about as well as geographical location. He never replied after that and I figured I had offended him in some way but without clarification, decided not to give it too much thought. To each their own. It only hit me after reading this that my question may have been out of line. After all, unless you're planning a meet up with another member in the near future should be when you give some physical description of yourself unless you feel comfortable otherwise.