SeanE opened this issue on Aug 14, 2003 ยท 48 posts
Mehndi posted Tue, 19 August 2003 at 3:50 AM
{{{{We turned off the requirements for the profile until a couple of weeks ago and this was announced in the thread for people wanting to change their colors. So it has been off until a couple of weeks ago.}}}} Tammy, why is it necessary to force filling out marketing information on members at all? Shouldn't that be voluntary information at the very least? Perhaps if you want people to wish to fill it out, offering an incentive to do so would be an idea to think on, since right now they have nothing to gain, and everything potentially to lose, by becoming part of a marketing database of information to be sold to others. As far as notices saying it was turned off, or it in fact being turned off, I did not in fact notice it when I tried to change my color scheme. I still faced the same marketing questionairre that had been there demanding to be filled out if I even so much as wanted a newsletter (needed to update my email address, and could not do that to get the newsletter unless I submitted a ton of personal marketing info..) So since it is stuff people are not happy answering, why enforce the answering, and instead just make it voluntary like most sites?