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Request HN: Please all update contact info in your profile
Hi All. This is just a thought. Many a times we run into discussions which are not useful to the HN community in general, and sometimes we run into people of networking/general interest. Maybe we can carry on the conservations & networking in private and keep HN clean!
Please mention your contact info in the "about" section of the profile. The email field is not visible in public. Be sure to be smart when entering email id to prevent spams!
- jf 16y agoWhere is your contact info?
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- mrduncan 16y agoReminder: The email field is only visible to mods, not other users. If you want your email to be visible to other users, add it to your "about".
- teej 16y agoI highly recommend adding your email to your profile. I get emails from HNer's sparsely (about once a month) and they're always detailed, specific, and respectful of my time.
- mahmud 16y agoBest think I have done in my entire internet life is using my real name on HN (a first for this anonymous privacy hawk!) and leaving my contacts. You folks have been the best! Great face to face meetings too.
- nethergoat 16y agoI wish I had the same foresight you did - my one regret about signing up for HN is not using my real name as my username. It would be great if pg added the ability to change one's username, but given the HN community's usual sentiment on feature requests (a sentiment I share), I'm not holding my breath.
- w1ntermute 16y agoYou might want to obfuscate it though. No need to unnecessarily add to the mountain of spam that you already have to wade through because of the surprisingly large number of false positives in Gmail's Spam folder. I have even had SVN commit notifications end up in my Spam folder, even though I have rules in place to tag them! You'd think they would put any emails that I have tag rules for on a whitelist.
- joshfinnie 16y agoSince this is about your "About" section of the profile, I have to ask: Why are the links you add to your profile not clickable to people who view it? Is it because of spam? Or some other reason? I just found this always interesting to me.
- mcav 16y agoProbably due to spam, but I wish PG would just add links with rel=nofollow instead.
- jbooth 16y agoEh, rel=nofollow is kinda like those car stereos that won't play unless you put in a code. Doesn't stop people from ripping them off, they'll just figure out it's useless later.
- huhtenberg 16y agoJust put a minimum karma requirement in for links in the profile to be clickable.
- mcav 16y agoYeah, but we want to avoid search engines from following the links, not humans. Search engines respect nofollow.
- jbooth 16y agoAnd humans, or human-coded robots for that matter who are ignorant of nofollow will still post all kinds of blogspam, thinking it's effective.
- ryanelkins 16y agoI've found this to be very helpful - I've received more than a few emails through my HN profile from people interested in what I am working on - often from people who did not publicly comment on anything I was doing at all. There have also been time when I've wanted to contact people and couldn't.
- michaelkeenan 16y agoPlease also add your location if you're comfortable sharing that.
- ErrantX 16y agoPut your blog/site/projects in there too. I like to browse the profiles of people making interesting comments to see what they are up to.
- MicahWedemeyer 16y agoOr to see if someone making a strong statement has any experience whatsoever to back it up.
- staunch 16y agoHN should have some very basic private messaging, like Reddit has had since the very early days.
- fizx 16y agoTo more easily implement, might I suggest the anonymized email approach a la Craigslist, with some karma floor for sending.
- oscardelben 16y agoI'm not sure how Reddit does, but how would you deal with spam?
- s-phi-nl 16y agoIt already has messaging capability, but it's only enabled for YC and founders. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=112732 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=112732.
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- MicahWedemeyer 16y agoAlso, please don't get too cute with techniques to derail bots from parsing your email address. I'm more likely not to email you rather than decode your clever cypher. Maybe you'd prefer to only be emailed by people willing to jump through a lot of hoops, but I'd recommend making it easier for people to reach you, rather than harder.
- oscardelben 16y agoI guess I'm one of them (ruby obfuscation). I'm going to change it now.
- Xavi 16y agoI'd argue that "cute obfuscation" techniques aren't needed anymore... gmail's spam filter is pretty good...
- keefe 16y agoYep, plus not everyone who scrapes emails is a spammer (such as myself). Of course, if you put your real email here you're a little crazed.
- aarongough 16y agoI don't see how that works. I happily put my real email everywhere, I also use my real name... Is that supposed to be a problem?
- keefe 16y agoI'm posting with my real first name at least... at first I thought you are joking now I am ??? I don't know about you but I have dozens of emails, my "real" one is the one for people I take seriously and close friends.
- aarongough 16y agoI only have a couple of email addresses. I'm not worried about someone knowing my email address... Why would I be? I comport myself online the exact same way I would face-to-face. If anyone is sending me annoying/abusive emails I can simply block them. But that has never happened...
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- sabj 16y agoThese are my real initials, I haven't added my email yet... though I suppose I should!