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Thanks Patrick, I agree with these points actually. I guess I didn't make that clear. I don't think I mentioned in the article to ask for their friends' email

Thanks Patrick, I agree with these points actually. I guess I didn't make that clear. I don't think I mentioned in the article to ask for their friends' email addresses though, did I? I'll have a re-read. At the time, I seem to recall that we very specifically mentioned to our users that they would gain their high score ratings (over time) AND they would be notified of PopJam's launch, via email. I'm very much a "white hat" guy - so if there's anything you think in there that may be considered grey/black, let me know and I'll remove it from the article. I'm all for best practices.

patio11 16y ago
I'm just looking at the implementation on sockandawe.com today: the prompt for submitting an email address is, quote, "Submit your score to the leaderboard and find out your global rank.", and then the prompt for a friend's address is "Challenge your friend to beat your score." Neither of those is exactly best practices for collecting addresses.
- shogunmike 16y ago
  Ahhh...I see. Unfortunately, we don't own SockAndAwe anymore (we sold it rather soon after it was built!), so have no control over what is put there now. However, I think it would be prudent to add your suggestions to the article and warn users who go and visit it now. I'll make those changes this evening.