Are original-post pages meant to be visible to the greater Web? I can see this being useful in drawing new members to this wonderful community. But (1) some original posts are very personal, (2) some OPs use their real names, and maybe, just maybe, (3) the tinier thumbnail images used on the original-post pages could help identify, to nonmembers outside this site, an otherwise anonymous user. I didn't know that this could happen.

Out of pure narcissism -- I've been hoping to eventually drive down a more notable Josh Karpf's ranking in Google search results -- I did just a search on my Agnostic.com profile image (which I use on other sites) after logging off and wiping my browser cache.

In doing so I found that original posts, and the smaller thumbnail and the user name of their original poster, are readable as Google search results, although you can't still click through to the user profile or to the comments without logging on. (Screenshot attached below.) Still, the original post and poster's user name/smaller thumbnail ARE visible outside this site.

P.S. I tried this a few times, always searching on my own image, and got a second original-post page half the time: [agnostic.com]