Tell HN: Please add a way for people to contact you in your profile

Re:Tell HN: Please add a way for people to contact you in yo... by porcoda on Saturday July 06, 2024 @06:47PM (#40893932)

> I know that I could beg our @dang to act as intermediary and contact the user in question on my behalf, but he's too busy and valuable to turn into a glorified phone operator :-)

Oh my god no. I intentionally am uncontactable on here and I’m sure that’s true for many others. I don’t want HN people to connect with me, open doors, etc. It may surprise some folks, but some of us don’t give a shit about networking, hustling, etc. via online message boards.

For all the high quality tech people on here, there seems to be a similar number of hucksters, get-rich-quick people, life-optimization-influencers, technical dilettantes, and other types I actively would like to avoid ever being contacted by. If the admins ever facilitate piercing that anonymity that would kill this site forever for me.

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Re:Tell HN: Please add a way for people to contact you in yo... by sph on Sunday July 07, 2024 @01:06AM (#40895387)

> Oh my god no. I intentionally am uncontactable on here and I’m sure that’s true for many others.

Then don't add an email to your profile.

I have been on this site 10 years more than you, and I have yet to be contacted by a scammer, con artist or whatever else you are afraid of, FWIW. Not everyone is out to scam their fellow neighbour.

Again, no one is forcing you to become contactable.

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Re:Tell HN: Please add a way for people to contact you in yo... by ffgjgf1 on Sunday July 07, 2024 @03:53AM (#40895929)

So people who don’t want to be contacted by others don’t get an option for password recovery? Interesting perspective…

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Re:Tell HN: Please add a way for people to contact you in yo... by meiraleal on Sunday July 07, 2024 @09:15AM (#40897459)

Adding your email to HN and adding it to your public profile are different things, you can add your email without make it public.

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Re:Tell HN: Please add a way for people to contact you in yo... by Tomte on Sunday July 07, 2024 @09:36AM (#40897626)

OP‘s idea was that HN‘s admins use the private/non-public email field in the profile to play middleman.

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Re:Tell HN: Please add a way for people to contact you in yo... by meiraleal on Sunday July 07, 2024 @09:16AM (#40897469)

I have received multiple emails that were initiated by my email in HN. Most of them were legitimate contacts related to job positions or participating in open source projects but a good 20% that I didn't engage were probably scams.

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Re:Tell HN: Please add a way for people to contact you in yo... by stuckkeys on Monday July 08, 2024 @04:51AM (#40903735)

In OPs defense, this sounds like an optional take. I do not think anyone is forcing you to commit to changes. He is simply proposing a connect channel with folks that want to sync up or continue on subject matter content.

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