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Profile setting: Hide email address from public working backwards

Gus — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 08:35:39 GMT

Hide email address from public, ticking its box in your profile doesn't in fact Hide the email but make it viewable
I'm using Opera 9.23 if its a browser cookie issue

Re: Profile setting: Hide email address from public working backwards

jelv — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 09:03:21 GMT

Are you sure? I currently have the box ticked - check my profile.

Re: Profile setting: Hide email address from public working backwards

pjmarsh — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 09:06:48 GMT

I get an Email User icon on Gus's profile and a hidden on jelv's. Mine is set to hide my address. Can anyone see mine?
Phil

Re: Profile setting: Hide email address from public working backwards

jelv — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 09:08:29 GMT

Nope - yours is hidden

Re: Profile setting: Hide email address from public working backwards

Gus — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 09:25:45 GMT

yes your is hidden but if I tick that box mine isnt anymore

Re: Profile setting: Hide email address from public working backwards

Simon_M — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 10:14:22 GMT

Hmm. It is a bit odd. All of our email addresses are hidden, but there is a link below mine & Gus's names that allows email to be sent to us through the forum, without revealing our actual email address to the sender (or anyone else browsing).
So there must be another setting somewhere on the profile that controls that.
I didn't see one on my profile - I'll go & have another look.
Edit: Nope, I've had another look & I'm still stumped. I still can't see what controls the email icon display. I'm reluctant to take the tick out of the 'email address hidden' box, even for trial purposes!

Re: Profile setting: Hide email address from public working backwards

jelv — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 10:48:35 GMT

Whether you can see the actual email address or whether you get the option send via the forums is something that is set globally for the forums - Plusnet have sensibily set it for the safer option.
If the box is unchecked you can be emailed via the forums - checked and you cant.
NB It always shows the ability to email yourself irrespective of the setting - is that what is causing the confusion?
Edit: Having set the option you need someone else to check it for you.

Re: Profile setting: Hide email address from public working backwards

Simon_M — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 11:24:24 GMT

Maybe that's why I'm confused. jelv, can you confirm that you can't email me?

Re: Profile setting: Hide email address from public working backwards

Simon_M — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 11:31:18 GMT

Thanks, James. That's me sorted then.
That just leaves us with Gus's original problem, because we can send him email & he reckons he's got the same setting as the rest of us.

Re: Profile setting: Hide email address from public working backwards

Oldjim — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 11:33:44 GMT

To clarify.
Does this mean that the tick box "Hide email address from public?" actually doesn't do that but its function is "Not allow members to email you" or have I misunderstood

Re: Profile setting: Hide email address from public working backwards

pjmarsh — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 11:37:51 GMT

My understanding of it is when "Hide email address from public?" is ticked the email part of the profile shows as hidden, and when it isn't it shows as an "email user" button, that opens up a form for the forums to send an email to the user without showing the sender the reciprients email address.
Phil

Re: Profile setting: Hide email address from public working backwards

Oldjim — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 11:52:38 GMT

If so would it be an idea to get the wording changed

Re: Profile setting: Hide email address from public working backwards

Colin — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 12:07:09 GMT

I'm sure if your email is hidden, it still shows for you...

Re: Profile setting: Hide email address from public working backwards

Simon_M — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 12:11:28 GMT

Oldjim
I imagine that the complication is that different wording would be needed against this setting, depending on the global setting that determines how this switch works. See jelv's post above.
Not that that should be beyond the capabilities of the software - there seem to be a lot of other conditional display options.
It is confusing though.
We are still no nearer answering Gus's question though, which in the light of these explanations becomes 'why we can email him via the forum despite him having ticked the box?'

Re: Profile setting: Hide email address from public working backwards

Simon_M — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 13:45:01 GMT

That's not how I read Gus's last post James, but I can see you could interpret it that way. We will have to await confirmation of the current 'tick' status.

Re: Profile setting: Hide email address from public working backwards

alanf — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 11:28:02 GMT

Quote from: James_H
We are - namely that when the box is ticked, he can still see his own address.
Currently the box isn't ticked, so although his address is not shown, the boards will send him an email on your behalf if you want.
If he ticks the box, his address still won't be shown, and we will not be able to send emails to him via the board.

Thanks for the clarification James. When signing up I was amazed to see that by default the "hide email address" box was not ticked. I then panicked when I saw that having ticked the box my email address was still visible (to me, as it turns out). The wording certainly needs improvement.
Also perhaps the "public" in "Hide email address from public" needs clarification. Presumably a board member can never be contacted via the board except by another signed-in board member. If so, the tick box should be something like "Refuse emails from other board members".

Re: Profile setting: Hide email address from public working backwards

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 08:42:02 GMT

Not a bug, although perhaps still worthy of consideration.
Should the wording be improved?
Should the default options for privacy be defaulted to the most private settings?
Moved to suggestions.