did anyone have problems from putting profile visibility on 'anyone'?

[Ah.ow]

rather than at least 'members only'? for me i was worried that coercion people could see my posts then, but I was afraid to exclude people who were safe but hadn't made an account.

I wonder how others thought about their privacy settings?

 

[MercenariesofMidgar]

I didn't really care so I put it on anyone. Maybe I'll put it on members only but I'm not sure

 

[Aergia]

The distinction between members only and anyone confuses me tbh. You can access members' profiles, assuming they've chosen to make it visible in their settings, by clicking on their username. Alternatively, you will be able to see their new profile posts under "New Profile Posts". But, if you don't have an account (and you can obviously test this by logging out) you simply can't click on usernames, and the "New Profile Posts" tab doesn't appear for you. So there is no way to see profiles, even those whose visibilities have been set to anyone. I thought that perhaps one would be able to access these profiles with a direct link but after testing it out, this doesn't seem to be the case either.

TLDR: It seems that even if you set your profile visibility to anyone, non-members still won't be able to access it. So you don't have to worry about anything.

 

[SVEN]

Having paranoid tendencies I am capable of worrying in case folk who don't even know about SanSu read my profile !

 

[Praestat_Mori]

Your posts on the forum are publicly visible (except if you post in the private forums).

 

[Emeralds]

It doesn'matter if you set your profile to private or not. Everyone can read all of your posts. If you click on messages under someone's avatar, you can read all of their posts including those on their profile page even when they have it set to private.