Sedecology offers many options to limit visibility of your typings. The basic visibility statuses for subjects (people who get typed) and typings are Private, Friends(-only), Public, or World(-readable). Public means visible to all logged in users.
Notable subjects are always World-readable, and nonnotable subjects cannot be World-readable. Friends-only subjects can be seen by friends but can only be typed by their creator — this is to avoid hairy situations where your friends type your subject and then you unfriend them.
Typings on a subject are no more visible than the subject itself. Nonnotable non-user subjects (which typically represent personal contacts of users or people in the typology community) do not allow public typings, and a user may choose to disallow public typings on their subject for greater privacy. But the default for a user subject is to allow them.
When a typing is set to Friends, there are more specific settings that override it:
Blocking someone also hides all of your typings from them, regardless of the visibility setting.
There are three ways to make other users less visible on the site (in order of strength): unfollowing, ignoring, and blocking. Note: none of these remove existing friends or prevent being friends with someone!
Unfollowing: Unfollowing removes someone's actions from your event feed.
Ignoring: Ignoring is when you don't want to see a user at all. It has the same effect as unfollowing, plus the following:
However, their typings remain visible on their own profile. This is due to the fact that 1) you can't accidentally view this page and 2) you may still want to view their typings sometimes.
Ignored users are not given any indication that they are ignored, though they may figure it out when you can't see their comments.
Blocking: Blocking has the same effects as ignoring, along with completely hiding all your typings and About Me from them. The details of blocking may change somewhat in the future, but at least they won't be able to comment on your typings.
Note: Blocking does not hide your comments from them!
You cannot block a mod. You can ignore a mod, but you will still see their comments that are posted "as a mod".
Currently there are mods, and subject editors. The sole moderator/editor is currently Ibrahim. Subject editors are responsible for cleaning up and adding subject data, and merging subjects. You can report any rule violations to the mods.
You can make the job of the editors easier when you create subjects by including more information and properly formatting it. E.g.: a short but definitive description, links to Youtube channels, and a fictional work if the subject is fictional. Fictional characters can be described simply as "fictional character from X" and their description will be overridden when a work is linked.
Occasionally there may be duplicate subjects. If you see duplicate subjects, do not type both of them, and inform the editors so that they can merge them. If you type both of them in the same theory, the editors may not be able to see your typings to make sure that it is safe to delete one of them.
When editors merge subjects, the typings are moved over. If there are duplicates (meaning same user + same theory), then the merge fails and one of the subjects is locked.
A typical case of merging is when a community member joins the site, and they have a pre-existing subject. You can notify an editor if this needs to be done.
If you create a duplicate subject by mistake (e.g. of a subject that was difficult to find through the search), you can merge it yourself as long as no one else has typed it yet. Merge it instead of deleting and recreating your typing.
Q: I forgot my password, what do I do?
A: Use the Forgot Password page.
Q: I forgot my username, what do I do?
A: Use the Forgot Username page (accessible from the Forgot Password page). Please don't create a duplicate account if you can avoid it.
Q: I forgot the email I used, what do I do?
A: Use the forgot password feature and put in the email. If you used it already then you'll get an email, if you didn't then you won't.
Q: Can I change my username?
A: Probably — contact me about it.
Q: Can I change my subject name?
A: Probably — contact an editor about it. It should still be a name that people will recognize you by.
Q: Can I delete my subject page?
A: The site does not make it possible to delete others' typings. If they were simply to be hidden from view from others then this would defeat the purpose of the site, which is to give people a forum to discuss people's types. If seeing deviant opinions bothers you so much, then you can simply block them. (Warning: blocking people does not prevent them from discussing your type in other forums.) You can also disallow public typings on your subject.
Q: Can we add typology/subtype theory X to the site?
A: The only theory I currently plan to add to the site is tritype. Big 5 as a typology a la SLOAN doesn't really make sense for several reasons. In short 1) the traits are basically normally distributed, with more people in the middle than on the ends 2) the middle is not even well-defined except with respect to a given population, and 3) Big 5 traits change over time.
And the biggest reason is, just take the test. Does anyone really care about the Big 5 scales for historical people and fictional characters?
Q: Can we add feature X to the site?
A: Contact me and I'll consider it.
Q: How is the Popularity ranking calculated?
A: It's the number of people who have typed the subject. If they type the subject in more than one theory it will have no effect. Subjects where public typings are disallowed are pushed to the end of the Popularity ranking.
Q: Can you tell me how many people have typed me, so I can get to the top of the Popularity rankings?
A: No can do.
Q: What kind of security does sedecology use?
A: Only hashes of passwords are stored, in keeping with security best practices. The algorithm used to hash passwords is one of the strongest available.
Q: What does Sedecology mean?
A: "Sedec-" means 16 in Latin, so Sedecology means "the study of 16 [types]".