Sahil. Wtf.

Why is my real identity the default profile selected when commenting on mobile now? So easy to skip the toggle since it's a new feature (that no one actually asked for) and dox ourselves. You also disabled or removed tagging of users on mobile, making this community reallllllly not all that interactive.

What's the state of affairs on PM and PDE over there?
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CuriousFox
WR Officer
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Dude this has BEEN happening since I called this out on my last two posts. I was told via email he was leaning heavily towards getting rid of public profiles and during his AMA he promised communication moving forward, which also has not happened. Nothing has been resolved.

https://bravado.co/war-room/posts/public-profile-removal-steps

https://bravado.co/war-room/posts/public-profile-removal-part-2

Both of these were posted in January by the way.
Fenderbaum
Politicker
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Retired Choirboy๐Ÿช•
This is getting old.
Maximas
Tycoon
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Senior Sales Executive
Is that thing still happening, seriously!!
braintank
Politicker
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Enterprise Account Executive
@sahilplus the fact that I'm receiving connection requests despite the fact my public profile isn't shared makes no sense.
HVACexpert
Politicker
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sales engineer
@Gasty I still get connection requests as well even though profile is not shared.
Gasty
Notable Contributor
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War Room Community Manager
Help me with some data pointers here to help you better:

1. How often are you getting these connect requests?
2. How many at a time?
HVACexpert
Politicker
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sales engineer
Since I made this post: https://bravado.co/war-room/posts/connection-requests

I have gotten a few more, usually one invite at a time.
Gasty
Notable Contributor
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War Room Community Manager
And do you actually know any of these people, or are they coming from random unknowns?
HVACexpert
Politicker
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sales engineer
Random unknowns
Gasty
Notable Contributor
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War Room Community Manager
This helps. Thanks. Let me get back to you as to why this is happening.
braintank
Politicker
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Enterprise Account Executive
I've got a handful - 5 or 6. Random people

But why does that quantity matter? How are they making a request to a profile that isn't public?
Gasty
Notable Contributor
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War Room Community Manager
My best guess would be they are coming through some old notification to those users, from before you made your profile hidden.

Which is why theyโ€™re just a handful, and not like 100/day.

Regardless, this will stop happening if youโ€™ve hidden your public profile now.
Gasty
Notable Contributor
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War Room Community Manager
Default profile should be anonymous on mobile app for users , who are already posting as anonymous on desktop site. This will be fixed soon.
detectivegibbles
Politicker
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Sales Director
It's not. Just got on mobile app and my public profile was the defaulted profile.
Pachacuti
Politicker
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They call me Daddy, Sales Daddy
Itโ€™s absolutely not defaulting to the anonymous profile. You guys need to get rid of that completely.
CuriousFox
WR Officer
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You already know I agree.
poweredbycaffeine
WR Lieutenant
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Thanks
sahil
Notable Contributor
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Deepak Chopra of Sales
We have identified the bug and it is being hot fixed right now.

You are right that this is unacceptable and I am just as frustrated as you are that this happened. You deserve better. I'm sorry
antiASKHOLE
Tycoon
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Bravado's Resident Asshole
can you take my suggestion and have them move that toggle to the settings where it belongs and discontinue having it in the text box? This will help solve any potential "accidental Doxxing" like what happened to me yesterday.
sahil
Notable Contributor
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Deepak Chopra of Sales
Yes, this also will be done. We are fixing big first.
Sunbunny31
Politicker
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Sr Sales Executive ๐Ÿฐ
I am super careful, and I just had it happen to me. I'm not happy.
RealPatrickBateman
Politicker
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๐Ÿ”ชAmateur Butcher๐Ÿ”ช
Also, "Deepak Chopra of Sales".... pls fix to "Jim Cramer of Marketing"
antiASKHOLE
Tycoon
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Bravado's Resident Asshole
PBC pointed it out to me yesterday when I replied to his comment and it changed to my personal profile as a default without my doing so which then made me go back through 5 different posts and have to delete my comments as I accidentally doxed myself, pretty easy to tell as it was a multi-comment thread.

Either remove the feature or put it in settings so that it isn't right in the comment text box.
Pachacuti
Politicker
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They call me Daddy, Sales Daddy
Yah, WTH @sahil??!!!! I posted as my real name since it defaults to my real name and not my nickname here. I had to go back and delete comments.

Not cool.
CuriousFox
WR Officer
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๐ŸฆŠ
I've only been screaming about this from the top of my lungs since January. Not cool at all.
CadenceCombat
Tycoon
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Account Executive
๐Ÿ˜ฌ definitely concerning. Canโ€™t afford any fuck ups with user data. Could jeopardize careers if unlucky.
DungeonsNDemos
Big Shot
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Rolling 20's all day
Yikes this would be so easy for me to forget to change. I would prefer that the default be our anonymous account
CuriousFox
WR Officer
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๐ŸฆŠ
They need to roll back these terrible changes.
DungeonsNDemos
Big Shot
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Rolling 20's all day
I just donโ€™t understand after all the original fuss, why this was changed recently to make our real faces the public default
Coffeesforclosers
Notable Contributor
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Director Sales and Market Development
So wait, i have been android for a long time but if i switch to apple i can actually know who you are. That would finally be worth the switch!
Coffeesforclosers
Notable Contributor
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Director Sales and Market Development
nevermind i jsut saw my profile was my actual profile, no android or apple issue. Gross
sahil
Notable Contributor
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Deepak Chopra of Sales
Looking at this right now - sorry
poweredbycaffeine
WR Lieutenant
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โ˜•๏ธ
Can you simply divorce my LinkedIn completely from my profile? I donโ€™t even login with that info anymore (using Google). I still havenโ€™t met anyone that appreciates the feature, and the real identity posters have the lowest quality posts on the site.
CuriousFox
WR Officer
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๐ŸฆŠ
This question has been brought up several times PBC. I would like that option as well.
Panda4489
Politicker
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Head of Some Shit
This really shouldn't be this difficult to do. The fact that your called this is out two months ago @CuriousFoxand it's barely being fixed is a little ridiculous
saaskicker
Celebrated Contributor
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Enterprise AE
we've not received a yes, no or maybe from divorcing our profiles completely. we've asked 100x. +1 to this option.
GrinchGotAPoint
Good Citizen
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Service and Sales Associate
Is it fixed now? The profiles might be fake, but the angst is real, hahaha
AssistantToTheRegional
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Enterprise Account Executive
Itโ€™s defaulting to anonymous for me on mobile
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