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By *Play OP   Couple
over a year ago

a village near Bridlington, East Yorkshire

I've noticed a lot of profile have stuff like...

"To: Sydney University and all other institutions using this site or its associated sites for projects - You do not have permission from me to use any of my profile or pictures in any form or forum both current and future. If you have or do, it will be considered a violation of my privacy and will be subject to legal action. (I suggest the rest of you post this notice.)"

#Why the heck would Sydney University in particular want our pictures?

#Does this accually protect you from anything?

#Should everyone who wants to be discreet, like us, post such warnings?

I just keep seeing these warning and I'm contemplating joining them but don't want to just be a sheep doing it blindly just because everyone else does. I want to understand why people do this and make my own mind to.

Cheers in advance

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It means nothing, it was a prank started years ago.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It is against plagarism

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I've noticed a lot of profile have stuff like...

"To: Sydney University and all other institutions using this site or its associated sites for projects - You do not have permission from me to use any of my profile or pictures in any form or forum both current and future. If you have or do, it will be considered a violation of my privacy and will be subject to legal action. (I suggest the rest of you post this notice.)"

#Why the heck would Sydney University in particular want our pictures?

#Does this accually protect you from anything?

#Should everyone who wants to be discreet, like us, post such warnings?

I just keep seeing these warning and I'm contemplating joining them but don't want to just be a sheep doing it blindly just because everyone else does. I want to understand why people do this and make my own mind to.

Cheers in advance"

It's utter nonsense and I use it as a filter to be honest. I delete messages from anyone who happens to have mindlessly posted that on their profile.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Read the FAQ. We use it as a filter.

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By *olden RatioWoman
over a year ago

Buckinghamshire

It doesn't protect you from anything. It's far more sensible for people to just be mindful of what they put online in the first place and protect themselves that way.

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By *Play OP   Couple
over a year ago

a village near Bridlington, East Yorkshire

I thought it might be a prank, like the type that are constantly floating around Facebook.

I just wanting to make double sure that I'm not missing something here.

Thank you all for clearing that up

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


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It's utter nonsense and I use it as a filter to be honest. I delete messages from anyone who happens to have mindlessly posted that on their profile. "

love it but that means I'll only speak to a very small handful of people

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


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It's utter nonsense and I use it as a filter to be honest. I delete messages from anyone who happens to have mindlessly posted that on their profile.

love it but that means I'll only speak to a very small handful of people "

Lol, yeah, know what you mean.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Because they watch Judge Rinder and now think they are legal experts.

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By *Play OP   Couple
over a year ago

a village near Bridlington, East Yorkshire

I feel a little silly asking on the forum for an answer that is in the FAQ...

Here is the official answer for anyone else who perhaps hasn't seen it...

"We've noticed a legal disclaimer paragraph that some people have on their profiles. Should we have one too? What are they about? Do they do any good?

The "legal disclaimer" is pointless nonsense and all does is take up extra space on our servers. Please remove it if you have it on your profile. If you're worried about privacy please set your account to be hidden from non-registered users on your privacy page (this also hides it from search engines but may take a week or two to drop out of search) and remove the notice (and encourage others to do likewise).

Common sense advice would be NOT to put any information on your profile (here, or on any such site) that could identify you or that you don't want to become public! So for your own benefit, don't post phone numbers, real names or email / instant message addresses on your profile that people might see or "Google".

Some people may put non-identifying pics on their public profile but keep face pics private or for friends, for example."

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Because they're ill informed.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

sheep so I heard

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Because they are knobheads.....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Because they are knobheads....."

Harsh but fair

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

[removed by Sydney University for study by the psychology department at 18:11:52 on 22/12/2016]

The bastards!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"It's utter nonsense and I use it as a filter to be honest. I delete messages from anyone who happens to have mindlessly posted that on their profile. "

makes me laugh when it's all there is on the profile, like you say a useful filter

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"sheep so I heard "

Bet they have iphones

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

it is a great filter

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"sheep so I heard

Bet they have iphones "

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By *lik and PaulCouple
over a year ago

cahoots

The disclaimers can often be longer than the profile text too

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

They mean absolutely nothing in reality, have no legal basis and just a general waste of time, and why is it just the university of Sydney that seems to be targeted??

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

There is a thing behind this. In 2006 Sydney Uni did a research piece on dating websites where they hoovered up tons of data en-mass for a research paper. These messages have been appearing on dating websites ever since. The reality was a ton of graphs about dating habits, nothing personally identifiable on it, but there was a bit of a backlash anyway.

Occasionally you see Adultfriendfinder mentioned as well, since they've got a long history of, er, 'padding out' their membership.

They are, of course, from a legal standpoint, absolute rubbish - Bonus points if they're threatening action in the European court system to organisations located in Australia and the US.

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By *VBethTV/TS
over a year ago

Chester

I put something about Sydney University on my profile. Not the standard one though.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

People trust their credit card, private pics and details to a site they know nothing about and that provides no details of security... but feel the need to protect their profile text from plagiarism

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By *rightonsteveMan
over a year ago

Brighton - even Hove!

Some profiles have the warning on and have the most appalling badly written text and the crappiest photos. Why the hell would I want to copy that shite?

I'm sure there is a direct and causal link. That would be a better university research project.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

More bullshit false legalese....wonder if these people who post it feel safe now

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Because they haven't read the FAQ's

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By *htcMan
over a year ago

MK

its pointless to post, no company will read or take notice of it.

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By *ubble troubleCouple
over a year ago

Manchester

Because it's quicker than doing the picture of the naked lady in 1's and 0's.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Because people are idiots

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By *ndigo40Woman
over a year ago

secret town


"I've noticed a lot of profile have stuff like...

"To: Sydney University and all other institutions using this site or its associated sites for projects - You do not have permission from me to use any of my profile or pictures in any form or forum both current and future. If you have or do, it will be considered a violation of my privacy and will be subject to legal action. (I suggest the rest of you post this notice.)"

#Why the heck would Sydney University in particular want our pictures?

#Does this accually protect you from anything?

#Should everyone who wants to be discreet, like us, post such warnings?

I just keep seeing these warning and I'm contemplating joining them but don't want to just be a sheep doing it blindly just because everyone else does. I want to understand why people do this and make my own mind to.

Cheers in advance"

As if they would take you to court

If they that worried don't put pics up of faces covered in spunk

Just saying!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"It is against plagarism "

oh good.

I was contemplating wether or not to upload some of my original pieces of work and some research I've carried out throughout the years. Good think the disclaimer protects it against people stealing it and claiming authorship.

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By *corpio67Man
over a year ago

hillingdon

Total waste of the isp bandwidth which could be used by the members!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Because taking pictures of themselves with tinfoil hats is NOT sexy....

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By *Play OP   Couple
over a year ago

a village near Bridlington, East Yorkshire


"Total waste of the isp bandwidth which could be used by the members!!"

How much bandwidth can a few lines of basic text really waste.

Compared to all the pictures, banner, colours ect. I would have thought the extra bandwidth those few lines of text use would be practically nothing, neglable at best.

Not sure how much extra use the members could gain from everyone removing this disclaimer.

Don't get me wrong, I'm sure it's not needed and simply a poor joke that has infected gullible people's profiles. I just don't think it will crash any servers lol

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By *mokes n MirrorsCouple
over a year ago

Plymouth and Newcastle (sometimes)


"I put something about Sydney University on my profile. Not the standard one though. "

Haha...We have something about them too.

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By *reykiwi500Man
over a year ago

West Kent (near Tonbridge)


"Total waste of the isp bandwidth which could be used by the members!!

How much bandwidth can a few lines of basic text really waste.

Compared to all the pictures, banner, colours ect. I would have thought the extra bandwidth those few lines of text use would be practically nothing, neglable at best.

Not sure how much extra use the members could gain from everyone removing this disclaimer.

Don't get me wrong, I'm sure it's not needed and simply a poor joke that has infected gullible people's profiles. I just don't think it will crash any servers lol"

I would imagine the concern is more about storage space taken up on servers than bandwidth, but it might be both depending on how the application works. Given the sheer number of profiles that have this kind of disclaimer (totally unnecessarily), if they were all removed, I'd imagine that would free up quite a bit of space on the fab severs that could be used for better things. Disk space is pretty cheap these days compared many years ago, but it still costs.

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By *Play OP   Couple
over a year ago

a village near Bridlington, East Yorkshire


"Total waste of the isp bandwidth which could be used by the members!!

How much bandwidth can a few lines of basic text really waste.

Compared to all the pictures, banner, colours ect. I would have thought the extra bandwidth those few lines of text use would be practically nothing, neglable at best.

Not sure how much extra use the members could gain from everyone removing this disclaimer.

Don't get me wrong, I'm sure it's not needed and simply a poor joke that has infected gullible people's profiles. I just don't think it will crash any servers lol

I would imagine the concern is more about storage space taken up on servers than bandwidth, but it might be both depending on how the application works. Given the sheer number of profiles that have this kind of disclaimer (totally unnecessarily), if they were all removed, I'd imagine that would free up quite a bit of space on the fab severs that could be used for better things. Disk space is pretty cheap these days compared many years ago, but it still costs."

This website says 1 letter uses 1 byte...

https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs101/bits-gigabytes.html

... Therefore 1GB would be around 1 billion letters. A DVD is around 4.7GB so you could store 4.7 billion letters on a single DVD.

I really don't think any noticeable amount of space could be saved even if 10 million people removed the pointless warning.

I guess if it makes people, however misguided, feel safer and if others use it as a filter it's not accually such a bad use of a few bytes per misguided member.

Than you all for your thoughts on this and confirming my suspensions that this is a practical joke. I really should have read the FAQs

Merry Christmas

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By *lackMetalMan
over a year ago

Centre


"Because people are idiots"

Couldn't have put it better myself!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Because it's quicker than doing the picture of the naked lady in 1's and 0's."

very true, lol

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