Rebel8: but do you agree this is then limiting what these people can discuss as well as not solving the problem of information revealed in the past?
I spoke to future posts in my previous comments, but I do not know if it is a fact that previous posts will be flagged with a country. Does the geolocator look for where you were and where you are when it adds the country flag to your posts?
What if you both stopped posting with your current account before the change took place? Then you could re-register with a new account and be sure to obscure anything personally identifiable.
Is that technologically feasible, Simon?
Another thought--how many of these tiny countries are English speaking (and therefore would be able to participate on this forum)? If they're not English speaking countries but the poster speaks English, that would both help and hinder identification. Speaking English in a non-English country narrows down identities, but reduces the possibility that person can be found by an Internet search (because those searching would have to be searching English forums in English search engines).
There is also the fact that showing countries gives the wts minions less places to hide when searching this forum. They could, of course, see some info w/o registering, but not the members-only area, which is where those from tiny countries could post. Now that we have the new feature previewing active threads, it is less of an issue to get participation in threads posted to those sections.
Will it be possible to search for posters who are from a certain country? I thought not.