Privacy Settings
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Privacy Settings
Privacy Settings
One of the quickest ways to retreat into some privacy is to take your city “off the map” temporarily or for as long as you like by disabling your Publicity setting. In doing so, new posts will not be promoted sitewide, and your city won’t receive tourists through “Visit a random city.”
Though changing your publicity setting will help you fly under the radar, any posts that were reposted by others may still lead visitors back to your city.
Additionally, previous posts that were tagged and sent to their related universal landmark will still appear in those landmarks unless you first go to the post's edit form and uncheck the universal option.
Once you disable your publicity setting, your city’s original founding announcement will also be unpublished, and tags associated with your tribe and city motto will be retroactively removed from the Heartland until you decide to republicize your city.
Disabling the publicity setting will also prevent others from joining your tribe. Only those who receive a postcard invitation from you will be able to join.
Here’s how to change your city’s publicity setting:
- Choose Profile from the 3 dot Manage menu
- Select the Edit profile link
- On desktop click Promote in the left column menu; on mobile tap the three line menu and select Promote
- Click/tap No thanks. Don’t reveal my city at this time.
- Click/tap Save
If someone has joined your tribe who’s doing more harm than good, you can easily banish them.
Your Tribe management page provides a list of your tribe members and the date they joined your tribe. If you want to banish a tribe member for any reason, follow the steps below. When you banish a tribe member, they lose the privilege of posting into your Younited Front and receiving future tribe notifications from your city. The tribe member won't be notified of their removal.
To banish a tribe member:
- Sign in
- Select Tribe & Alliances under the 3 dot Manage menu
- In the tribe member listing, find the tribe member you want to banish and click Banish
- Click Banish on the confirmation page to complete the action
To unbanish a former tribe member:
- Sign in
- Select Tribe & Alliances under the 3 dot Manage menu
- Click Banished
- In the list of banished tribe members, find the member you'd like to unbanish
- Click the Unbanish link next to their city name
If any member of a Trade Alliance is giving you grief, you can bow out. Just follow the steps below. The founder of the Trade Alliance city will not be notified of your departure, though you will no longer appear in that city’s tribe directory.
To bow out:
- Sign in
- Select Tribe & Alliances under the 3 dot Manage menu
- Click the Trade Alliances tab
- Scroll down your Trade Alliances listing, find the city you want to leave and click Bow out
- Click Bow out on the confirmation page to complete the action
If you no longer wish to receive future postcard greetings or invitations to join a tribe, you may opt out by unsubscribing.
To unsubscribe from future postcard mailings:
- Click the unsubscribe link in the postcard you’ve received
- Click the opt out button to confirm your decision
You may also opt out by changing your postcard notification setting:
- Select Settings under the 3 dot Manage menu
- Choose Notifications in the Settings menu
- Uncheck the Postcards Notifications box
- Scroll down the page and click Save