Feature Request: Standardized and Bot-Proof Contact Information

[Tumby]

As an asset creator, I want people to know how to contact me outside this website. In my profile settings I see no dedicated contact information spot, at best there is a thing called "Identities" where I can post my steam and twitter links. I want people to know what my email address is, but that has led to an annoyingly huge wave of spam mails.

YouTube solves this problem by having a specific "For business inquiries:" field in the "About" tab of your channel. To actually read it, you need to solve a captcha. Here is an example:

With this, there is a standardized way to figure out how to contact somebody and there is no fear that shitty spambots will use this information.

I wish for a similar feature on this site. Integrating an actual captcha is probably hell, but there has to be something you guys can do.

 

[nesman]

There's nothing natively built into xenforo that fills the captcha need. There's the user field, but that is publicly accessible regardless of if a user is logged in or not. There's a plugin for Xenforo 1 but we're on Xenforo 2, so we cannot use it as plugins are not interchangable (this was a headache during migration). If a XF2 plugin is found we can think about adding it.

 

[Brokkhouse]

I'd suggest putting your contact info into a readme.txt in each of your downloads. That way people definitely have it on hand.

 

[nesman]

That could work, or have a link to a portfolio like on github pages.

 

[nesman]

I added a new user field for portfolios.