Timeline for The need to provide a link to your LaunchPad account for the elections
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| Jun 8, 2016 at 19:01 | comment | added | terdon | Fair enough, but mine isn't and I try to keep it that way. And you're quite right, this is getting off topic and turning into an argument with you which was not my intent. I guess the only relevant point here is that there is never any real reason for a mod to use their private email to contact a user unless that mod chooses to do so. Therefore, your first comment to the OP is moot. | |
| Jun 8, 2016 at 18:55 | comment | added | muru | @D.W. maybe so, but why not use a private chat room then? I'm just saying: You and terdon can argue with me all you want, but the fact remains that emails were sent. (And I have no particular objection to that: as you note, my email is publicly available - not only on my site, but on Github, and possibly other places as well.) | |
| Jun 8, 2016 at 18:55 | comment | added | terdon | @muru I just mean that receiving a mod message also triggers an email. In any case, my main point is that I would consider it way out of line if a mod took advantage of the fact that my email is visible to them and chose to contact me without first asking for my permission. Emails are hidden and only shown to mods and, as such, fall under the PII clauses of the moderator agreement. I have shared mine with SE under the assumption that nobody will start spamming me. | |
| Jun 8, 2016 at 18:53 | comment | added | D.W. | @muru, you publicly list your email address -- it's on your personal web page, which you link to from your Stack Exchange profile. Therefore, it's not a violation of confidentiality for a moderator to contact you by private email. However... if you hadn't listed your email address publicly, as terdon says, it'd be a bit dubious (if not a violation of the moderator agreement) for moderators to contact you by private email to that address. The moderator agreement restricts how we can use PII -- and that includes the email address registered with Stack Exchange. | |
| Jun 8, 2016 at 18:46 | comment | added | muru | @terdon I have received emails independent of mod messages, and I see no reason why they should say "email" instead of message when talking about it. | |
| Jun 8, 2016 at 18:45 | comment | added | terdon | @muru are you sure that was the mods and not SE? More importantly, mod messages are sent as emails. If a user received an email from a mod, there is no reason to think the mod used their personal account. | |
| Jun 8, 2016 at 18:43 | comment | added | muru | @terdon maybe so, but I know mods here do emails (not just the ones sent to me, but you can see chat for mentions of emails about the recent vote correction). What should be and what is seem to be rather different things here. | |
| Jun 8, 2016 at 18:41 | comment | added | terdon | @muru see above. I can't think of any situation where a mod would need to contact a user via email | |
| Jun 8, 2016 at 18:39 | comment | added | terdon | I have to agree. I am also a mod and have never abused that privilege to send an email to a user's private email. In fact, I would consider it completely out of line to do so. Emails are private information, if a mod needs to contact a user, they should do it on site or not at all. That way, there is both a respect of the user's privacy and proper oversight of the mod's actions by SE. If you ask a user's permission to email them, that's slightly better, but without permission, it seems very wrong to me. | |
| Jun 8, 2016 at 18:17 | comment | added | D.W. | @muru, alright, then let me try responding a different way. (Sorry, I didn't realize you were a mod. My fault!) My answer is: the premise behind your question is faulty. There is never a need for a moderator to email a misbehaving user from your private email. The moderator can do all the contacting they need to do, through the site's built-in functionality (and that's arguably better than sending a private email -- or at least no worse; for instance, it ensures there is a record visible to other moderators and to the SE team). I don't know what the "but still..." is alluding to. | |
| Jun 8, 2016 at 9:59 | comment | added | muru | @D.W. No, I didn't. I did because I have received such emails, I know mods here emails users when needed. (Why else do you think I wrote: "There are ways to send messages here, but still...") | |
| Jun 8, 2016 at 9:56 | vote | accept | CommunityBot | ||
| Jun 8, 2016 at 6:49 | comment | added | Oli Mod | First, muru is a mod (on another SE site). And I email users all the time for non-serious contact. | |
| Jun 8, 2016 at 4:53 | answer | added | D.W. | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jun 7, 2016 at 22:34 | comment | added | muru | If you're squeamish about this, what will you do if you ever need to email a misbehaving user, who would be more likely to misuse that information than anybody here? (There are ways to send messages here, but still...) | |
| Jun 7, 2016 at 22:06 | history | asked | user364819 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |