Hi Folks,
Well, my first official act: All right folks, listen up – Ya best be gittin those profiles filled out or we’ll get Sarge after ya.
There, now that’s done.
You know it can be really helpful to know where folks are. Ya don’t have to fill in your street number, telephone number, etc. Hey, even the state/country would be nice. Sometimes you just would like to know where someone is – nothing more.
I tell folks I was talking with a guy from Australia last night on the woodworking forum about chisels. It’s great cause you can get different views from folks all over the world.
It’s easy too. Right up at the top of the screen here in Knots iy says, Update Profile way up top just to the right of Taunton in the upper left hand corner of your screen. Click on it and it takes you to your profile.
Note: Per forestgirl, next post, it’s even easier than I described. Just click on your screen name and a popup window appears where you can then Update your Profile and fill in the blanks so to speak.
Enter whatever you like, the CIA ain’t lookin. It’s not a bad thing. Hey, who knows someone right down the street might be struggling with something that you could help with. Maybe they’re looking for wood and live in your state/city and you know a yard that treats you good. You help a fellow Knots member and ye git some business for your lumber dealer. What’s not to like about that?
For the most part the biggest reason we’re all in here is to give and get help to/from other fellow woodworkers, right? Knowing where someone is can make it a whole lot better/easier.
Click on my screen name if ya want an idea. You’ll know I’m in Northern NH <Where they don’t allow me to carry a hammer around all the time! 🙂 >, I’m retired and I’m an old phart Edit: Er, gentleman?
Nobody’s gonna bite ya,
Bob @ Kidderville Acres
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
Edited 2/15/2009 8:22 pm ET by KiddervilleAcres
Edited 2/16/2009 9:38 am ET by KiddervilleAcres
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UhOh, Unless I'm a real dunce, clicking on Update Profile doesn't take you to the right place. The only way I've found to access the board profile (location, gender, age, etc.) is to click on my own name. Then, right underneath "Welcome, forestgirl" there's a link to Change Profile.
If this turns out to be correct, could you go back and edit your post so people get there quickly? I've dropped an email to Gina letting her know that this can be confusing (at least to me). If I'm wrong, please set me straight!
Thanks!
forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-)
Edited 2/16/2009 1:33 am by forestgirl
My apologies to ALL, forestgirl is right.
Anyone know the password to get into Fort Knox!?
Regards,Bob @ Kidderville Acres
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
>Anyone know the password to get into Fort Knox!?<This guy doeshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auric_GoldfingerOperation Grand SlamrocGive me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. Abraham Lincoln ( 54° shaves )
Bob,
Cuh! You give us a leksha about profiles but you ain't filled in your "favourites"! Also, we olde worlde inhabitants have no idea where NH is. Shurely you know that you should not be using them TLAs or even TLAs?
Lataxe, who also likes to leksha, given even the teeniest chance.
In NH (New Hamshuh), I believe it's spelled "lekshuh". ;-)
Lataxe (And you too Ralph),
You boys are hereby required to clap the erasers and you Lataxe will clean up all the chalkdust after you're both finished with the erasers.
Oh and save the chalkdust. I hear tell the Luddites want to make honing paste with it. I will supply the hermetically sealed Flunk & Wagners mayonnaise jar.
Regards,Bob @ Kidderville Acres
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
Cough, sputter. I was pretty pale to start with, but now I look, well, chalky. Guess that'll teach me to clap into the wind. ;-)
I put my info in when I joined in 03. But my complaint is the occupation catagorie and I brought this up to Gina a while ago. I'm an architect and there ain't no way to let people know that. I also make a little sawdust on weekends which is why I'm here.
It would be nice if the occupation catagorie had more flexibility.
ASK
Huh, you'd think Architect would be there. Maybe FWW doesn't have any control over the catagories, a Mzinga thang?
Could be worse though, could be anOther. Cripe, even that's confusing. Man I wouldn't want to be anOther................ Wonder what Others do?
Gina!
Regards,Bob @ Kidderville Acres
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
OK Granitehead
One to another that is. I see that Forest Girl has her picture in her profile... where's your picture frozen to a tree? How about a nice fat sugar maple?
dan
Hey dan,
Been seein you around again - great!
Trying to come up with a doh-doh excuse for no pic and me minds not working. Actually I thought of a couple lies, uh, stretching the truths mebbe......
OK, I'll get the dig. camera fixed. :-)
Regards,Bob @ Kidderville Acres
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
"But my complaint is the occupation catagorie and I brought this up to Gina a while ago. I'm an architect and there ain't no way to let people know that."
ASK,
I share your complaint. I am retired but I would like to be able to indicate that I am retired US Air Force. Perhaps they are limiting the occupation to a pick list so they can do sorts and searches on it. If so, it would be nice if they added a freehand occupation category so a person could enter something like "Retired Air Force, Active Curmudgeon."
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One alternative would be to "mis-use" another free-text field, Location perhaps, to add the desired detail.
Tyrant! give a guy a little power and it goes right to his head. HE HE. I have been wanting to say what you said about filling out profiles for a while now. It is really neat to know where someone is from. And hey they might be just down the road and you didn't know you had a woodworking neighbor. Might make some new good friends. It is fascinating to me to see who has what opinion and from where. Maybe I should call you a benevolent tyrant.
PS. mine is filled out
It is really neat to know where someone is from.
Isn't it!
I have several woodworking friends who are, let's say computer challenged. I tell them about Knots and some of the great ideas I've seen in here, folks I've met and that they are from all over the world.
Hey, I've even used some of Lataxes' terms (that gets 'em going sometimes) and even a Ray Pine joke or three.
It's all fun,
Bob @ Kidderville Acres
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
Is it just me or is there some sort of minimal posting needed to get moe than my name on the profile? I can't see where to post a picture, my occupation (potential retiree!) or anything but my membership date and my payment info. Most confusing!
Nope, as far as I know. But I will suggest -- wait a few days and add the info after we go to the new platform.forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-)
There are two profiles, one for your Taunton account, and one here on Knots. To edit your Knots profile, click on your name in one of your posts. The "Update Profile" link at the top only affects your Taunton account profile.For posting pics, scroll down in the posting edit window and click on the "Attach files" button.
Ah! Thanx so much. I hate chat rooms where all I look like is a grey box.Peeking out from under the shavings . . .
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