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Searching for Users By Location?

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Is this possible with vBulletin. As some may recall, I cancelled my eBay account a while back and have switched to using Craigslists and the forums for purchases.

It'd be useful (to me, at least) if I could search for users by location and then see if they have what I need/want in the FS/FT forums.

For privacy, give people the ability to turn this off and then they can just miss my purchase money. People can already spoof their location to anything they want, so they'd probably miss my purchases, too.

Just a random thought early in the morning. I didn't see this covered in the FAQ already.
 
Not possible because we do not require location for registration, so there is nothing in the database to search.
 
It's in our profiles. I understand it's not required for registration and so I'll just miss those users when I search (perhaps if it became popular people would voluntarily input that information). But, can't we search the field anyway even if it's not complete?
 
It's an option in registration that few actually use. The only way we can locate a member is by IP address..... that is not always reliable and only accessable to the Administrators.
 
Thanks, Major. I guess I wasn't clear about my intent. I wasn't looking for anything "reliable" in terms of getting every user's data. I was thinking of just being able to search the data that was there in their profie -- whatever it may be -- even if my search missed users in the event that their location field was blank or had non-standard data.

Long story short, I think I'll just have to keep doing what I've been doing. I'll lock this thread.
 
You can research by individual....

1. Click on Username

2.View Public Profile

3. About Me
 
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