On: Tell HN: Please add a way for people to contact yo...

[sph]

> 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.

[meiraleal → sph]

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.

[ffgjgf1 → sph]

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

[meiraleal → ffgjgf1]

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

[Tomte → meiraleal]

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