ok i'm not convinced this is actually necessary, but if mods truly think that it is, would it be possible to implement it in a way that rendered the address legible to non-computers/robots? or at the very very least warn the poster? cuz it is not at all obvious that this is going to happen when you post.
― s1ocki, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 17:01 (eighteen years ago)
logged in: display email logged out: dont
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Thursday, 29 November 2007 08:29 (eighteen years ago)
ya totally.
― s1ocki, Friday, 30 November 2007 05:41 (eighteen years ago)
?
― s1ocki, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 18:07 (eighteen years ago)
don't waste your good ideas
― elan, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 22:53 (eighteen years ago)
I considered writing the email obscurer so that email addresses were displayed if and only if you were logged in, but then I figured that if you are clueless enough to be entering trivially harvestable email addresses in a public place, you probably need to learn a lesson or two about preventing spam. Plus, you only need one harvester with an account to render that strategy void. So think of the email obscuring stuff as a free "education opportunity": It's extremely easy to "beat" the obscurer if you just think for a minute about what it's trying to do.
(In case it's not clear above, it's not primarily Google that's the reason for this code. It's far craftier email address harvesters.)
― libcrypt, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 07:00 (eighteen years ago)
^ rong
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 21:20 (eighteen years ago)
^ evil haxx0r
― libcrypt, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 22:47 (eighteen years ago)