Mandatory Home Page URL...
 

Just a little gripe, it seems the Home Page URL is a mandatory field. I've had trouble in the past linking to my site and want to playing things safe at vb.org so I've had to set it to google.com which is not helpful for anyone.

Can't it be mandatory at sign up and then not so there after? Cheers. :)

It should be mandatory and anyone who doesn't fill it in properly should be shot !

It is so damn annoying when someone asks a question or has a problem and you can't visit their site - which you often need to do to see the problem yourself.

Well I doubt few people other than myself in my situation would go about removing their site after registration. So why not make it mandatory at registration, and not afterwards?

No one said it had to be yoursite, only requirement is a url :)
ps. im using yahoo.com lol

As I stated in the thread on hack pirates, I think it should just be automatically entered as the licensed vb site of the member.

Not sure I agree with that, a person pays to own a licence so I think he should have the right to keep it "private" if he wants. Some people are just paranoid that way and don't like having there name used here linked to there site. I guess for a few different reasons.

Although, I do agree that it's a real annoying trick when people ask for help with there site, and have no link leading to it.

Maybe a common sense "Rule" here that states if you ask for help with hacks "you must make your site lnk available here on the site" might be a better idea. Then at least members can say to other members asking for help with no site link displayed. Ask again when you add your site link as the rules states here when asking for help. While still leaving others who figure things out for themselves, to keep there site private if they wish to please both sides of the coin.

I don't mind adding my link in my profile. Its a quick field that needs to be filled out and your done. Though maybe having a user setting asking to show it publicly or not might make eveyone happier. :) Kinda like the birthday setting.

we may change the system in the future, but right now, it will stay mandatory for the mentioned reasons

It wasn't mandatory when I registered...

I don't think it should be either, it's up to the user if they want people to see their site or not, for their own reasons (and what happens about people who have porn sites?). Dictating that people HAVE to start divulging private information to the public won't go down well imo.

With the 3.5 upgrade? :D