[image] This seems completely unnecessary. EDIT: I also don’t understand the reason for unilaterally making this change and not letting the community decide.

Community members are intended to read this field on other people’s profiles to determine how complex or summarized your reply to a person can be. We will not be giving any benefits to people who choose a higher level of experience, and it is not particularly intended to indicate anything about a pe…

Someone else already said this, but I’m also disappointed in the fact that there was no official announcement about this being implemented. Nor was there any official input from the community. It was discussed off-topicly on a post about Techlore’s forum being shut down. This isn’t to say that I th…

This is a Discourse feature dropped on us because of an update, right? I mean I am an expert but not really in this field privacy and security field. I like to think I am but I am not really sure. I know a lot of people here know more than me so… Yeah. Im going to put myself in the mid, just becau…

[image] anon63378630: I think there is some benefit in having a beginner tag so others can help them orient themself. But the other levels are too subjective to have any valid uses other than enabling some form of classism. [image] win11.shading291: There’s already a system which works we…

Oh, bravo! What an incredible forum on privacy—truly the peak of freedom! Do you dare to refuse or skip? Please, as if your tiny little autonomy is important when Privacy herself sweetly forces you to play along. Bow down and contribute, you ingrate, or we’ll all descend into chaos because you could…

[image] anon7592771: Oh, bravo! What an incredible forum on privacy—truly the peak of freedom! Do you dare to refuse or skip? Please, as if your tiny little autonomy is important when Privacy herself sweetly forces you to play along. Bow down and contribute, you ingrate, or we’ll all descend int…

This is disgusting. When I saw the warning, I linked it to the last comment (where I suggested that the privacy tool could be used by criminals): I thought someone had disliked my comment and reported me, which is why I received this warning. That warning, by the way, required me to provide my resid…

[image] Bumbashirovich: That warning, by the way, required me to provide my residential address, place of work, and full date of birth. what?

[image] Bumbashirovich: That warning, by the way, required me to provide my residential address, place of work, and full date of birth Can you provide a screenshot (obviously without your personal details) showing what you believe you saw?

So there’s some stuff in here that confuses me… BUT (I think) this starts out with a fair point - a few existing users in this thread did express concern when they were prompted with a new, unfamiliar popup (myself included), compounded by the inability access the site & find the relevant explanati…

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anon83428815 December 12, 2025, 4:14am 57

Thanks for the response @jonah maybe I missed it but can you clarify why this needs to be mandatory?

I respect the decision and appreciate @everyone giving their two cents.

Where is my “Astute Reader” tag?!!

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