I generally use a spam email address for whenever I have to share one.
But it is a good idea to try to hide these from attacks such as phishing emails.
Some peoples use their main id and some use their secondary id for bounty. So those who use the main id are at risk.
If the email ids get into the wrong hands then it may get into the market for sale, can be used for hacking attempts of bitcointalk accounts, for spam, track down of social accounts, and lastly your input of phishing attempts.
Can we get this added to the OP by any chance or maybe get a new thread with a list of managers who do publicly share users' email addresses?
I have started to contact bounty managers to keep the personal info private, so if anyone disagrees to do so then I'll create a new thread as per you have suggested.
Give a negative/neutral trust rating to the manager who did not respond to you as that might get them to respond to what you wrote and give you the reason why they didn't want to hide the IDs. It might just be that they missed the PM if they have had many of them.
EquityBase who you said did respond and hid them has shown their credibility as a manager here and it's good to see one of the managers have responded.
2/3 managers as you suggest is quite a low set of users that you have tested though (it's a good start).
It was the beginning what I was trying to do, so from now on I will try to contact more of them and those who will disagree will get negative trust rating until they fix the issue.
And I will also update the names of those managers who disagreed for the community acknowledgment either through this thread or the new one.
How can they be so ignorant? I think we should just invade their threads, and point out that this is happening.
Some of them maybe didn't realize the outcome the way we realized. And some of them may be left personal info visible due to workload.
A bit off-topic - I received some ICO advertisements, message about selling bitcointalk email database to email address which never was used for crypto related registrations, I have no idea where did it come from.
You received those emails because your email has been sold out to email marketers, most probably.
Go to the marketplace where you will see some sellers are selling bitcointalk database, if that's the genuine one then your and all of our ids are there.
Now imagine how many times it has been sold out all over the internet. Not only bitcointalk database has been selling out there, but also I've seen coinbase, ICO, etc databases are in the market.
Nevertheless knocking the doors of those campaign managers would not create a solution they just don't care especially if those persons are the wannabe managers I've been seeing lately.
Not all will respond positively but I believe the majority will agree with the issue and will support.
I have contacted
Wapinter (Baappay Bounty Manager) and he responded promptly and hidden the email id column. I was expecting something like this from Wapinter.
Another thing I was thinking lately that the wallet addy's (BTC or ETH) are also visible publicly through the sheet. So how appropriate is this and isn't it should also be kept private?
Because someone can easily check someone's balance and can target anyone for a hack attempt? And above all where is the privacy? Please share your opinions in this matter.
In my journey of bounty hunting, I've found aTriz's bounty campaigns are most easy to understand, easy to execute the tasks and takes minimum time. And another thing is, the thread design is very clean.
I also found a bounty campaign (
Robotina), where the manager kept everything private from the public. The manager is doing everything at the background.
The manager only shared a
spreadsheet publicly for their participants to track the earnings. I really liked the idea of this manager and till now I haven't found anything like this.
The thing I want to say, isn't it a better way? But I know it will not happen, no one will do the same way.
