Help What are identities and being visible to lurkers.

[CaptainSunshine!]

I have two questions: what are identities in the privacy setting, and how can I make myself visible to lurkers with no accounts?

I have no clue on the former, but maybe others can see what I can't. I'm viewing my own profile, since I don't have the permission to look at others'.

On the latter question, I turned it to "all visitors" and I still couldn't see my profile while incognito. Maybe this is not necessary, but I'm thinking of making myself visible for no-account lurkers in case I successfully die, so I can provide encouragement. Unless the banning or nickname crossing process is automatic.

 

[NutOrat]

As far as I know, unregistered users cannot see account pages period. The visibility only affects other registered accounts' ability to see your page or not.

 

[NutOrat]

To avoid making more threads about this, I'll bump this one, because I still want to know what "Allow users to: View your identities" on the Privacy page is. I have everything else set to "Members only", this one is set to "Nobody". Mods, what exactly does it affect?