Profiles lacking crucial Information, are you bothered?

Rather i want to participate in a discussion or not, i could really careless about someone's profile. The only time a profile matters to me is if i wanted to meet that person and date/or be friends. I'm only on here to relate to others on shared interests.

To be honest this is something that I have never done. But thinking about it it makes good sense to know just how to reply to a person in the best way by knowing age, nationality etc. I haven't really checked any profiles yet so can't answer about the blank profile question, but I shall certainly check out profiles in future. Thank you for the advise

Well barehugs I'm with you. some discussions can be responded to easily with out know where a person is from hoe old they are or what country they are from. Then there are discussions that need to be more specific to the discussion and know this information makes it easier to give a better response.

No, you are not being nitpicky at all. I've run into the same situations a few times. In some discussions it does help to know the country they are in as their culture makes you a little more emphatic as to why they are thinking as they do. Recently I got accused of being "derogatory" because I referred to a poster as "she". Now I took the time to look at the profile and the gender was not listed. The name didn't really offer a clue so I just went with she. Apparently if in doubt, "He" is the gender to use. I seriously did not know that. I was told that I used poor grammar by using "she" instead. I got straight A"s in Grammar all throughout school and I NEVER heard that one. So yes, I for one do understand where you are coming from, Barehugs.

me to. i always like to have at least a slight idea as to who im talking to. maybe im just to open. but i dont understand all the paranoia. I mean, hows anyone going to get me and know my address etc. just by me saying im female, age, state i live. i mean geesh how many thousands females live here anyway? so i think maybe they are hiding something for another reason, not a good reason yes i often will not even friend them here or any other social site

I never look at the profile unless the question is a bit tricky.I prefer to concentrate on my reply.Though as you say a glance at the profile will help us in tailoring our response to the person and his preferences.Initially in any website i'm a bit careful in revealing all personal details as i'm apprehensive of misuse.So i give this benefit of doubt to newbies but there is no reason to withhold information after we have gained confidence in the veracity of the site.

It is my opinion after three years of Lotting that the profile information can be very deceiving. You look at a profile and read 'location' and are assuming it to be origin when it is not always the case at all. You are assuming that all Lotters are honest (not true either) and have stated their correct gender and age. The only way to know a user is through their words in the discussions I can assure you. Much of the information, if it is there, is correct but a lot is not and to me it makes absolutely no difference whatsoever when I am responding to a discussion.

i don't look at the profiles when i see members responding to my discussions or when i respond to others. i only look at the member profiles before accepting friend requests.

This doesn't bother me to much. The only fact I find difficult to work around is gender. When replying to a discussion it helps to know if it's a man or a woman making the discussion.

Hmm I don't really think about that. I can usually determine the age of the person by the question thats being asked or by the content of their discussion. There are certain questions or things I might not discuss if I don't know the age for certain but other than that I'll try and answer for what I believe their understanding may be based on what I've read from them.

I don't pay attention to people's personal information. I don't need to know it. It does not have an effect on our discussions. I think many people hide it for fear that it might be used against them. That they'll be judged on it. For example someone might say that a person is too young to understand something because of their age, or might have something against a country that someone is from. To have a real discussion you must not think about who the person is, and where they are from, or any personal details. It will just cloud your mind.

I personally have never been into anyone's profile to look, to me its of no interest unless if they want to add me as a friend, then I may or may not go and look. But to me that info is the persons choice to add or not. I don't care to have everyone in the world have my information. Why would it bother me if some of theirs is missing. Its privaye info, that we may want to keep to ourselves.

personally, i am bothered responding to a person's discussion with a blank profile. knowing the profile of that person, somehow would help me understand why he reacted that way on certain topic or issues..personal background, culture, and experiences the like can affect a person's way of looking at things around him...this is also what i need to grasp and understand fully the message the person is trying to imply.

No, I'm not bothered at all. Anyway, it's everyone's privacy not to publish enough infos about their profile. It's the content of the discussions that attracted me in reading or answering some discussions in mylot not the user's profile at all.

i dont really think that profile information is persay important in regards to answering a discussion. i mean will it determine whether or not you are willing to answer? Or will it change the content in which you are going to write? i feel like if the question is simple thenanswer it... but if not and you don't have the patience to figure it out... then move on

To be honest i never take alook at some of their info but on the od ocassion i will take a peek at the discussions they have started aswell as respond to a few of theirs.I often get friends requests and i do sometimes have a peek like to see their interests to see if they have the same interests as me.I am not too worried about their info.

since their profile did not affect my earnings then no problem with me at all since its their decision to hide their profile. same as mine, i keep my profile private coz sometimes i tell my personal story here in mylot and its my own way to hide my real identity, not to mylot but to those users who might know me from here in my country as we can never tell, mylot have our profile whether we hide it or not. thats the reason why we also have an option to hide some information about our profile. you can even hide your gender if you want too. its their means of keeping their privacy so we must also respect them. what matter is we are here to share discussion and as long as they're not doing bad things to us then let it be as they might be here to earn, nothing more nothing less.

I'm not definitely. I'd like to leave the personal infor aside and pay my attention to the topic he/she starts and what I'm gonna respond to the post started. Why do u have to check the private profiles filled in the blanks of self infor before leave ur comments,I donnt think the lacking of such sort of things will influence u to fail ur comments,there are ever no relations between private infor and topic itself....... Happy mylotting

I am also doing the same thing like you, sometimes you find way how to position your answer to someone that you didn't even know the gender and age. Your response sounds like you are talking to an old man where in fact he was a teenager, Sometimes it's like you are talking to a mommy but the fact is she is single. There is anonymi of character. So what I did, I just answer it in general way.