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Ask HN: Why do you (or don't you) have contact info in your profile?
I quite often look at users profile to see who they are. Some have an e-mail, some have links to their startups or blogs, and some haven't filled in anything.
I was wondering why you put your contact info in your profile and what kind of communication you would approve of? Are you only interested in work-mail or don't you mind a friendly mail about how great your hair looks? Do you actively communicate with other users, or have you done so by shooting them an e-mail?
It would be interesting to shed some light on how many friendships/partnerships/random net acquaintances are made on HN.
So what's your story?
- ErrantX 17y agoWhen I joined I never happened to fill out a profile. As I got involved in the community here a few people asked to contact me - as I was posting personal blog posts anyway (and so the link was trivial to most) I added an email adress to my profile. It's resulted in a surprising number of amazing links with people I now count as friendly. Right now I am happy to keep a contact email in my profile because, as I see it, there is a lot of people on here that are amazingly interesting and if they happened (for whatever reason) want to contact me then I wouldn't wish to miss out.
- mahmud 17y agoI must have met or corresponded with 50+ people off of HN.
- sidmitra 17y agoI guess the reasons would differ from reaching out to fellow brethren to just showing off the stuff they do. I wish i could show off, until then it's just a way of letting people associate a person with an otherwise anonymous username.
- ScottWhigham 17y agoHmmm - I suppose that I don't because I like my email address. No other reason...