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Ask HN: Contact info in profiles
There have been plenty of instances where I wanted to contact a reader after reading his/her comment on HN. But there are an incredible number of user profiles that have no contact info whatsoever.
I can understand if this was digg, but on a strong community site like HN, I was surprised to see this.
Is there a particular reason why many people don't have any contact info listed in their profile pages? If not, maybe now would be a good time to update with a simple email address perhaps?
- paulgb 18y agoYour profile doesn't have any contact info either :). The email address field is not public. Only PG/YC can see it.
- knightinblue 18y agoOh wow, I had no idea. I thought it was visible to everyone. Fixed it. Thanks :)
- raquo 18y agoThat probably answers your question :)
- knightinblue 18y agoSo maybe they should make that field visible to everyone?
- Zev 18y agoI don't think many people would like that as a default option. Spam is something that people tend to get aggravated about.
- knightinblue 18y agoI understand. I thought people were leaving them under the impression that everyone could see them.