Re: profile pics
I understand where everyone is coming from on this issue, but the biggest complaint on this topic is about having to see someones ad images in their profiles and having to be a friend before that to see an ad image. And we agree that this is a complete pain and should never have to be asked, but that is what the ad images are for, not the profile images.
Before RaceSpace all we had was the classifieds, there was no other place to put an image of an item, unless you had some photo bucket link you were putting in your ads and then had to have people go to another web site and look through images.
The ad images should be in the ad and not in the profiles. If you were just looking for images to the ad, and you do not see them in the ad, normally you would have to ask that person to email you the images.
Along comes the RaceSpace profiles and we allow people to show others a little more about themselves, put up pictures of family, the cars they are working on, the highlights of their lives. Personal images, that comes with a different set of privacy rules. A set of rules that states you need to be a friend of the person first before you can see the personal images.
Then users come along and post ad images in the profiles and not in their ads, completely not what was intended.
Ad images = in the ad.
Personal images = in the profile.
However a user brought this to our attention that non-friends can see personal images, a glitch in the programming allowed this. It was fixed and now users who were posting ad images in the profiles were upset that people could not see their ad images, and users (like most of you here) were upset to have to jump through a hoop to see the ad images. We could not agree with you more, ad images should be posted in the ad.
We are not forcing people to be friends, if you find a users telling people to go to the profile to see ad images, ask them to post it in the ad, and then there is no problem, it is just like before when no image was posted in the ad, and you had to ask for photos to be emailed to you.
The profiles are to get to know someone so you feel more confident in the buying process, that was the reason for the profiles in the first place, not to post images of any ad. That's what the ads are for.