RSS feeds

[ChuckFickens]

Some of you may have noticed the liittle RSS feed icons popping up over the site.

For example, just below this question there is a little red/orange icon next to where it says how many answers this question has. This icon lets you subscribe to the question and if you have a suitable RSS reader installed you will get live updates on this question (in firefox it defaults to being a live bookmark)

Now this is great, if you are interested in a question you can subscribe to it and get updates on it as and when they happen, even direct to your phone if you want.

Right.... now to the point of this (rare) question...

How happy are you all about the fact that anyone can also subscribe a RSS feed looking at you as a user and they will get sent live updates of any question you ask or answer you give direct to their computer or mobile phone!

stalkers paradise anyone?

[jno]

agree. I'd just like to stay anonymous please.

[looobylooo]

hmm, me too! ^^

[Mamyalynne]

Not happy when you explain it like that, no!

[tamborine]

oh heck....better stop asking Qs now!

[ummmm]

Hmmmmm.....

I thought it was going to be a bit like using FaceBook on your mobile. If someone comments on my status or sends me a message I get alerted by text.

It's obviously not like that then?

[AB Editor]

Stalkers Paradise?

Not really Chuck! But thanks for stirring! You can subscribe to other user's timelines, yes, but to what end?

You'll know when they've posted a question on a public forum under an assumed pseudonym!

You are still anonymous...I don't see how this changes that? You're not using your real name and there is no obligation to. You are anonymous.

Honestly I am not sure what the problem is?

We would like to do that in the future Umm, I think we'd need to get a status in first though!

Spare Ed

PS. Thanks Chuck!

[ummmm]

Lol....are you in a bad mood again..?

I see where chuck is coming from though. We let information slip sometimes. Someone on here done a simple search on me...found out my email address, then found out my real address and my partners name and threaten to shoot me...

I wasn't worried though....

[AB Editor]

On a side not from all of this, we have a new amazon.co.uk widgets about the site... what do you think?

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Gaming/

(scroll down and look on the right hand side.)

We just liked the way they went round.

Spare Ed

[AB Editor]

Ummm - not sure what I can say to that really! Ultimately it was information found on a public forum though, assumedly published by the information owner? Anyway, I am still how RSS would have helped them?

The feed is good for keeping up with things and as a way for you to see what someone else is upto when not on AB. For example, if you could have subscribed to josaphine32's profile during the Bob situation - I think plenty of us would have been happy to have seen the information as soon as Josaphnie had posted it? Here Profile: http://www.theanswerb.../members/josaphine32/

Spare Ed

[ummmm]

Yeah I know. She was a bit nutty...lol. I just meant that people don't realise that the tit bits of information they give over a period of time can all be put together by someone like that.

I don't either as I'm stupid...!!! Took me ages to figure out what 'Bob' meant.

[AB Editor]

Sorry Umm! Should have been clearer! Bob has stuck with me a little, for whatever reason.

Spare Ed

[jno]

it's like ummmm says, yer actual stalker is one who puts information together a bit at a time the better to track down a target. This shouldn't be made any easier than is strictly necessary. I may have inadvertently revealed my address or my diet secrets somewhere and I'd like to think they were safely buried in the past. It's one thing to be on an open forum, it's another to make it too easy to search the archives.

[society]

"You'll know when they've posted a question on a public forum under an assumed pseudonym! "

What?! Eh?! Are you serious?! No really... are you serious? You are kidding, right?!!

Are you referring to any public forum or just this (AnswerBank) public forum?

[looobylooo]

im not too happy if it means that either society....

why would we want other information concerning ourselves to be revealed and available out side of AB for goodness sake..??!!

[ummmm]

Loooby....you'll have to take your pretty face off or they'll all be stalking you...lol :-)

You look like my friend...

[looobylooo]

''The feed is good for keeping up with things and as a way for you to see what someone else is upto when not on AB''

... but why...?? .............. i dont particularly want others to know what im upto or not up to away from AB.

what we do here is for here .... and what we do there is there .......

[looobylooo]

hey i might just get back in me cardboard box again ummmmmm lol ... think itll be safer to remain annon!

your friend looks like me does she? .. oooh-euur ... poor friend! ;o)

[society]

Thanks ChuckFickens for enlightenment.

[society]

Loob, you remind me of Olivia Newton John.

[looobylooo]

do i really society, hey thats a compliment if you like isnt it?! - thank you.
but i dont think id look much like her in those black leather leggins she wore in grease though!!! LOL