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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Re: New and introducing myself
I'm not even good at googling and found a bunch of info about you!
You really like to be right don't you? Why is it so hard to be VAGUE, not everyone needs to know or even cares to know 95% of the info you've spewed out. Oh and in defending yourself you reveal even more info? Nice.
In the words of my good man Homer Simpson "I am so smart! I am so smart! S-M-R-T! Smart! Smart! Smart!"
Again WHY DO YOU NEED JAPAN IN YOUR TICKER? Why do you need a ticker at all for three freaking weeks?
If I post your info, I can get banned for stalking. Two other people have found you as well. I am not making shiit up.
Ok, well send it to me in a private message if you and your entourage have all this info on me. which I am 110% sure you dont, because again, I have never used this user name before- EVER!
WHY DO YOU NEED JAPAN IN YOUR TICKER? Why do you need a ticker at all for three freaking weeks?
LOL. Are you tapping your foot yet? No. I told you, I'm not getting banned over this. You aren't worth it. Also, you really didn't answer my question. I asked why it NEEDED to be there. Not why you are keeping it there.
Let's be honest, this board isn't for you.
Tht would be known as a lurking period. That's how you learn the "rules" and atmosphere.
If someone wants to post a crapton of information about themselves they are absolutely free to. Why is it such a big deal to caution someone about the information they post? If dates about deployments, troop movements and whatnot are posted we try our hardest to have that reported and moderated for the military members safety.
All that was being said to "Miss Thang!" on here was that she should be cautious and careful about the information she is providing. We are a bunch of STRANGERS to her, yet she revealed some pretty personal stuff, and would likely continue to do so (especially seeing as how when she was defending herself she revealed even MORE lol!).
No one told her she was violating OPSEC for crying out loud.
Okay then if you don't want to lurk, you shouldn't wonder why you don't understand the atmosphere of the board.
There are so many !!!!'s flying around!
(This is my +1)
Lol agreed.
Excessive punctuation!!!???...
Dude, Sailorswifey, people are really just trying to help. They're not going to sugar coat sh*t with puppies and rainbows. We have all seen and heard of some really horrific things stemming from stupid *** people have posted on the interwebz- ranging from someone's wedding being crashed to a lady's whose husband was deployed being attacked by a guy who was pretending to be a military person delivering news that her husband was KIA. It could happen. This is a completely open forum with absoultely no premise of security.
People are just trying to help.
The more defensive you get (and trying to tell a bunch of military wife vets and active duty/reserve or former duty mil members "how things are done" SUPER lol) the more people on here get defensive or rude or fed up with that BS. People didnt really get rude until you got condescending. YWIA.
Again, people were just trying to help you. If you dont give a sh*t about PERSEC, dont make excuses or say why you were not feeding out puzzle pieces on the internet (because people WILL try to educate you). Just say you dont give a crap and leave it at that.
I changed my name
dude. you should really calm down. the actual atmosphere around here is really laid back with nice ladies and usually mostly puppies and rainbows and happyland. I didnt notice anyone getting rude until OP did. Asking if you know about PERSEC or pointing out that maybe she is giving out too much info should be something that is helpful. I know when I have accidentially included potentially identifying info and someone has pointed it out, I was appreciative not defensive.
Its not like people are pointing it out to be malicious. I dont know how that would even work. "hey stranger, you're giving out a lot of info, might want to be careful about that" hardly reads to me like someone is out to get you or something
Why do people get so mad and overly defensive when things like this are pointed out? I really dont get it.
I changed my name
Holy crap! I go do laundry and play with the kids for a few hours and come back to this.
Asailorswifey, or what ever, Hi and welcome. I'm TX, the moderator. Normally on this board, when someone gives out a bit too much information, it is pointed out that they may want to be careful. That's what was done here. There was nothing originaly rude about it. Most people say "Ok, thanks. I'll consider that next time." Some people, as in the case here, get offensive. Your response made some people feel as if you assumed they didn't know crap. As a matter of fact, quite a few of our regular posters are current service members. Many others have lived this life for a long, long time. Before I got out of the Army, one of my jobs in my unit was to teach our soldiers and their family members about OPSEC and PERSEC. As an MP, you could literally call me the OPSEC/PERSEC police.
Having seen what can happen when people post too much info, I too, would have cautioned you about the info you were putting out.
To the other new poster who is offended, hi and welcome. This is not a normal post on this board. This poster's tone has set a few people off. I encourage you to lurk a bit and get a feel of the board. We are usually a pretty chill board. There are some amazing women here with a lot of expirience. We have been a huge support for each other through births, moves, husband's being wounded, deaths and more. You can not find a better board anywhere on the net. If you are looking for people to blow smoke up your bum or tell you what you want to hear, this isn't the board for you. If you want honest women who actually care about each other, this is your place. Please stick around a bit before you decide.
Tee hee. Have I ever been overseas?
It's precisely that I have lived in Japan, and I have flown there many times, that I can fairly easily peace together likely travel plans. I may not get the exact one, but I'm sure if you post another time or two, I will. Like, if you posted on travel talking about a long nonstop flight, that would narrow it down a ton.
I know about MAC flights, which airports they leave from, and which days they travel. It's not that hard. And since they don't fly every day of the week, if you say you're leaving on a day they don't travel, it's even easier to figure out.