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I'm absolutely against this. I think it's good that people can learn what the members of the community are like, show how they've influenced the wiki, and build some reputation based on the work here. I take pride in having inbound links and am irritated the Tropers/ namespace had its icon removed years ago. Since you're a good troper, I think you should have nothing to worry about.
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^ We literally had a doxxing threat last night that forced someone to blank their troper page. I think it's more trouble than it's worth.
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While that was an issue, it still feels like a one-time situation. At most, maybe let people restrict their tropers pages to non-logged in users as an option, not a requirement. I guess I'm just against trying to hide more and more parts of the wiki from readers (as that's what I felt when DethroningMoment/ and Tropers/ namespace were hidden).
Edited by Piterpicher Currently mostly inactive. An incremental game I tested: https://galaxy.click/play/176 (Gods Of Incremental)
I mean, I just don't consider Troper Pages to be things readers really need to see- they seem to be more of a personal/social thing to me and it always kinda creeps me out when I realize people are linking to troper pages off-site; feels weirdly intrusive. A privacy setting would be a good compromise.
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I wouldn't want my page to be hidden by default, but I agree it should be an option.
Admittedly this idea was pretty knee-jerk. A privacy setting would work fine.
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Bumping, although I think that it would be good to have it exist as a toggle-option, so Tropers can set their Troper page to be open or closed to non-logged in users/search engines if they wish.
It's always very uncomfortable when I realize my troper's page as well as other people's have inbound links. With recent issues going on, I think it'd be a smart idea to restrict visibility of troper pages to people who're logged in. There's zero reason why random internet strangers should be allowed to see our pages, especially if they have unsavory interests.