how private are the forum postings?
There are times when I just can't face talking with a listener in chat, and I want to come to the support forums here to post. But I am terrified that people IRL who are involved inmy situation will see me posting here and read Very Private Things that I post and that bad things will happen afterward. I sound like a three-year-old complaining about this stuff, but I am still going to ask...
So I'm wondering: how "private" is this support board? Can postings here be found by Google, bing, and other search engines?
@CupofChai I'm not sure about this, but I searched on Google for this post you just made, and it came up with this. So, no sign of your post :)
I also triedaccessing the member forum from a guest account, and I was able to read your post. So anyone can see your post. If people know that you're on 7cups, and they know your username, they could search for your name with the search button, and the threads that you've been tagged in show up (so it's not all the threads that you have posted in, only the ones where your name is actually in a post).
If people don't know that you're on 7cups, but your username is a name that you use on other sites as well, they could search on Google, and just like with the search function here, the threads in which your username was tagged, will show up.
I hope this helps for a bit!
Thank you so much for doing all that work?very complete!
I think to be safe for now, I'll just chat with listeners. I've found two awesome ones already, for different parts of my day, so everything is working out.
@CupofChai I did my best! I'm not sure if all the information I gave you is correct, though.Maybe @GlenM or @LauraSor @Heather could provide more information on this topic. I'm glad that you've already found 2 awesome listeners!