Perhaps instead HN could adopt a Creative Commons license for comment text; that way no permission would be needed, and it seems like the Right Thing anyway.
Oh I agree, the current ads are fine, I just hope they stay that way and don't infiltrate the contents in the future. Think of it as a pre-emptive suggestion. :)
I would definitely support an email me link, or perhaps a way to include an email field which is only visible to other registered users of HN. I don't want to give my email to just anyone, but I don't mind listing it for HN users.
Limiting by whether or not a user has spent 30 seconds creating a HN account seems pointless.
Maybe only show emails to users with 25 karma or more?
Re:Hacker Monthly #1 is here
by schindyguy on Wednesday June 02, 2010 @12:56AM
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I like the email me forwarder idea as well. I have wanted to contact fellow readers in the past
I think the reason he did not include comments is the lack of a way of contacting people on HN. Very few people include an email address in their profile.
HN could help him a lot by adding a "email me" link on the profile page - not an email address, but a forwarder, HN will send the email.
I don't think spam would be much of a problem since you would need to be a registered user to send an email, and you could require 3 karma or something.