Where do you live?

[DocHeb]

One of the fascinating things about this forum is hearing from people around the world. This just totally blows my mind that in a millisecond - and at no additional cost other than my ISP charges - I can find information from, or talk to people from Austrialia's Snowy Mountains to Zachary, Louisiana.

On the other hand, the free text entry for our personal data fields makes it hard to find groups of people. For example, I was looking for TBN'ers from Michigan, but a sort on the "location" in the Users Files data field yields "MI, Southeast MI, Mich, Michigan", etc., plus entries with cities/areas in Michigan from Ann Arbor to Western MI. Makes it hard to find neighbors. Any thoughts on standardizing these Data fields, with possibly a Country/State-Province/City format to allow colleagues to find each other? It might be neat to have the ability to send group emails to subsets of the total TBN network based on these fields.

 

[rancar]

This is a very good suggestion. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

 

[ewoss3]

great idea

 

[njrqs]

Yes maybe there also needs to be some more compulsary fields prior to being able to register.

Not that we want to scare anyone away but once they join I am sure they would appreciate the info being available.

Keep up the great work OH MASTER !!

 

[markcg2000]

Sometimes I'd like to know more, but we have to accept anyone's desire for privacy. I think more detailed fields are a great idea, but I'm sure people will realize the value and fill out all the fields without making them mandatory... that's why my "location" is so detailed /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif.

 

[DocHeb]

I don't want to make them mandatory, just organized a bit differently. I have a lot of sympathy for wishes of privacy. It's taken me nine months to get comfortable enough to put my email address in my profile. I actually don't worry about y'all, but I'm a bit paranoid about some of my customers. We get some of the rougher and angrier elements of society into my shop, and I don't always tell them what they want to hear. Most of my colleagues try to keep a low and anonymous profile.

 

[jhburke]

I would sure like for everybodys location be available. This is because if I am interested in something they have I would know if I be interested in it due to shipping costs.

 

[Youare]

I often wonder who of you live in the same general area I do. Whenever I see a tractor, especially a compact tractor, in someone's yard I wonder if they are one of us.

I can understand the privacy issue that some people may have. So, I guess it is up to each one of us to add the level of information we are comfortable with.

Randy

 

[GlueGuy]

You know, that's an idea. I'd like to see the "location" broken down into 3 or 4 separate fields, like, country, state/province, city, and maybe "region". If they were all optional, that would allow people to put as much or as little information as they like.

For example, my profile is relatively detailed about where I live, but it's still a pretty big area. Kind of gets that way when the houses are so far apart from each other...

 

[Thomas]

Maybe if we could stick a small TBN sticker on the mail box that might help.

 

[Youare]

That's a good idea. Where do I get my sticker?

I wonder if anyone else is guilty of what I have done. After reading the comments of some of the frequent contributer's I have kind of formulated personalities in my mind. Just like listening to someone on the radio after a while I have a little mental picture of what that person should look like, then I see a picture of them and the body doesn't fit the voice.

This identity mystery causes me to use something the rest of the intertainment industry will not let me use, my imagination. Television and the movies do not invite me to use my imagination, they provide all the audio and visual elements, I am just supposed to sit back and watch. At least this board stimulates my imagination, of which most people say is already to active.

I like the mail box sticker idea, or bumper sticker, or sweetshirt and hat. With all the different tractor colors how in the world would someone develop a logo which incorporated all of them.

Randy

 

[looch]

<font color=blue>I have a little mental picture of what that person should look like</font color=blue>

Guilty.

 

[Thomas]

Logo..I believe over a year ago there was talk about having couple of different logo's..
Tractor Tire w/TBN,Tractor thread w/TBN and couple of others.
I believe there was post not to long ago this will be look into or working on it. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

I too wonder as I travel past farms&homes also visit other dealers,did I just pass a fellow TBNer /w3tcompact/icons/hmm.gif
We are so close but yet so far.. /w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif
Maybe the tractor dealers could start a log system which would show if a fellow TBNer on there site /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif
I fasten a small Kubota tractor w/fel to the top of my mailbox to let others know <font color=red>stop on in<font color=red><font color=black> I like tractor and free coffee. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

 

[njrqs]

Thomas,

I gather you (more than) like your coffee so assume there is always a pot on the boil at your place !!

You might have to get a bigger pot if you put that tractor on your letterbox !!!

Cheers

 

[Thomas]

Indeed the coffee always ready!! /w3tcompact/icons/love.gif
The tractor always fasten to the mailbox..thats if I don't knock down the mailbox when plowing..again. /w3tcompact/icons/eyes.gif

 

[njrqs]

Maybe being an OZZIE (Oy!) I should put up a big beer keg on the letterbox, so people know - Free Beer !!

Ahh but to dispell one of those nasty stereotypes, I have a beer gut but not from beer !!!

Cheers

 

[s1120]

How about a beer bottle, and a coffee cup. Coffee in the AM, beer in the afternoon.