[Guide] How to make most of your profile info

[ovcijisir]

Some of the fields are not visible to non members of the forum (ICQ, AIM,YIM, MSN) so no person outside of forum can view those fields(they must be logged in to view it). So adding information in those fields can be additional layer of privacy. I know it is easy to create account and view that info like forum member, but at least no "outsider" can view that. Probably it protects you from web spiders and scrapers that way too.

[Pmalek]

I would advise not putting email addresses in your profile because it will get indexed by search engines and you will get spammed.

You have to use email address for registration, but you can hide it in settings, and I would suggest doing that.

It wouldn't be bad if the profile settings allowed entering two e-mail addresses. The one connected to your account that you registered with, and a second one that you can make public if you want. That way, your main e-mail address connected to your Bitcointalk account stays hidden and you have a choice to make a different one public or not.

[Peanutswar]

It's a great heads up to those who want to share their profile but I guess it is time too if there are some changes with the profile account which helps others upon visiting their details, currently I've seen most of the things I notice with the content is the last recent active, location, bitcoin address and to other contact information which is seems one of the trend as their profile right now is the portfolio, github, bitcoin address and I guess optional which is the work background I guess.

[examplens]

The people that sell products and services can benefit the most from this, but I would not agree that other people can not have uses from this too. You can always fill those fields with your personal information, or something else that you would like other users to see.

I'm not sure about the final use value, because mostly prefixes are added. For example, the structure of links from your profile is like this:
http://www.icq.com/whitepages/about_me.php?uin=1
aim:goim?screenname=1.com&message=Hi.+Are+you+there?
http://edit.yahoo.com/config/send_webmesg?.target=1

The only usable field today is the website link field and maybe a Bitcoin address.
btw. How old is this, they are still HTTP links even though they switched to certified urls a long time ago

[Doan9269]

Your right, there are many things we could derive out from using our profile information space for, even though majority of us pay less attention to them because we are mostly concerned about the signature and avatar space, then the personal text as well, without observing for more other things which we could do with the use of the profile information space for our personal use.

[ovcijisir]

The people that sell products and services can benefit the most from this, but I would not agree that other people can not have uses from this too. You can always fill those fields with your personal information, or something else that you would like other users to see.

I'm not sure about the final use value, because mostly prefixes are added. For example, the structure of links from your profile is like this:
http://www.icq.com/whitepages/about_me.php?uin=1
aim:goim?screenname=1.com&message=Hi.+Are+you+there?
http://edit.yahoo.com/config/send_webmesg?.target=1

The only usable field today is the website link field and maybe a Bitcoin address.
btw. How old is this, they are still HTTP links even though they switched to certified urls a long time ago

I thought more about link text then the links itself. Unfortunately links for ICQ, YIM, MSN are automatically generated and they can not be changed or disabled. But link text may be used just for text purpose. Not the most elegant solution but it is what it is.

Besides website field there are Skype / location / other contact info / bitcoin address fields that are in my opinion very useful too. They can hold a lot of content and also they can support emojis.