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Ask HN: Contact info in profiles

2 points by knightinblue ↗ HN
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?

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paulgb
Your profile doesn't have any contact info either :).

The email address field is not public. Only PG/YC can see it.

knightinblue
Oh wow, I had no idea. I thought it was visible to everyone.

Fixed it.

Thanks :)

raquo
That probably answers your question :)
knightinblue
So maybe they should make that field visible to everyone?
Zev
I don't think many people would like that as a default option. Spam is something that people tend to get aggravated about.
knightinblue
I understand. I thought people were leaving them under the impression that everyone could see them.