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The email section of your profile is only between you and ycombinator. You need to put it in the about section if you want other users to be able to see it.
by austhrow743 6y ago
The email section of your profile is only between you and ycombinator. You need to put it in the about section if you want other users to be able to see it.
- mkl 6y agoAnd both links in said profile are 404s, in case you thought there was a way to contact you from there.
- qmarchi 6y agoI stopped using Keybase after they got into the whole crypto thing, never ended up updating my profile.
- qmarchi 6y agoAh, got me there. I've gone ahead and updated it with the relevant info!
- kwanbix 6y agoI would "encode" it as abc at my domain which is google.com or something not to get your email grabbed by bots.
- jetti 6y agoAt this point that is such a common tactic that I would imagine many bots already account for that.
- qmarchi 6y agoThe particular address is filtered to a sub-inbox, so I don't generally see emails there unless I'm looking for them.
- asymptosis 6y agoBase64 would be better: unlikely to be automatically checked by bots, easy to decode, and guarantees that the decoded form matches the true email.
- ganafagol 6y agoBecause an email address scraping bot that can handle "foo at bar dot com" won't ever figure out what base64 is? Srsly?
- asymptosis 6y agoWhen did I say that? Maybe someday address scraping bots will learn base64. Maybe it will be at about the same time you learn to read.
- ganafagol 6y agoNo need to be insulting. I replied to your claim that base64 should be preferred over "foo at bar dot com" since it would be "unlikely to be automatically checked by bots". I find that claim unlikely since a scraper that is adjusted to handle the former will easily be adapted to the latter and likely already is today. I'm happy to hear a counterargument to that position, but please don't include an insult.
- asymptosis 6y ago> and likely already is today. This is the claim that requires backing up. Since offering emails in base64 form is not usually done, I consider it pretty unlikely that bots have been specially modified to go around checking everything which looks like base64 to check whether them codes have an email inside. If you don't want people to be insulting, maybe you should think through your arguments more carefully before treating someone else like the idiot.