Should there be something done about it to hide this site from search engines such a google?
I disagree. Steamgifts, like all communities, is a public place. If you get drunk and say stupid shit, it's your own responsibility. To put it in a better perspective, let's say you get completely wasted and then go to a public park (or heck, even a private club) and get naked and yell profanities - you were the one who did that stupid shit. If you didn't want people to see you like that, you should have taken steps towards preventing this incident (like, for example, avoid getting drunk while using a public service).
Besides I use Google to search SG very often since SG's search feature is complete bullshit in my opinion.
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No, I stated my main points in the first paragraph of my comment. The second paragraph is mostly just a bonus of keeping SG "Googlable".
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This has bothered me (slightly) for some time now, not sure if it has been discussed before.
People here say all sorts of things, in political issues, religious ones, and now there is a topic about cheating, or just had a drunken moment and said a few bad things, many will forget that this can all be googled, by someone close, and also perhaps by (future) employers.
Should there be something done about it to hide this site from search engines such a google?
While many argue the point on that this site is public,since everyone still need to log in being able to post (and only can get an account with enough cv) i'd also argue this site is half public.
Public or half public, people tend to forget that either way, and thus aren't careful what they post, and sometimes people get drunk and act weird, get into an arguement and lose their cool, or just try to be "funny" with clickbait (like i used plenty myself in the past) i find it innocent but there will always be people that don't find that. Such things happened to the best of us.
Even if you didn't say anything wrong, and would use the term "i got nothing to hide", that's fine and okay for you, but some people would still value their privacy regardless what they have said.
I don't know if it's easy to implement, if it is then those people who want and respect their privacy then they get what they want, and it won't influence those that don't care for it.
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