I'm not a fan of bounty hunting but since 9th Jan I'm participating in bounty campaigns to experiment something and also to see if it worth giving the efforts. Though I haven't earned $1 yet.
There is an issue with bounty managers, they are just exposing participants email ids. In my opinion, it is not a right thing at all, it's just unacceptable.
I've pmed some managers to hide the column, some of them did and some of them not.
We all know peoples sales email ids / databases to feed their greed. Even we can see so many sellers in this forum, I've even reported so many of them.
But I have a question why it is necessary to provide email id to participate in a bounty campaign? Let's assume that they need it for news, updates, and promotions.
Then they can offer a newsletter campaign, whoever wants to join will join and others will skip if they desperately want to collect email ids of participants.
And if they still want to keep the traditional way then they can just hide the email id column from the spreadsheet, right?
Ps. I don't know if this issue has been discussed before, let me know I'll lock this thread.
It's quiet unfortunate that many Managers expose participants emails to the public and for email hunters to come hunting for this email addresses, I started bounty Hunting recently, your preposition is quiet valid.
Sometimes the email are used to communicate with you incase you have problem in the campaign, the company also needs to keep you connected to their latest news as you are holding their coin which you earn during their bounty.
FOR THE NEWSLETTER CAMPAIGN Understand that bounty managers are sometime different from the project itself, and for the newsletter campaign, your email also needs to be submitted in the form for cohesiveness. They need to tally.
For your safety and privacy just create a secondary email address and you would be safe when you drop your email. I have received some unsolicited email within a short period I joined bounty Hunting.
Some bounty managers use this email to send message to participants of previous bounty when they have a new bounty they are handling. As a bounty hunter you must first believe in the idea a project is trying to execute before you participate in their bounty and for so many small reason some hunters might hold that coin for a while after it hit the first exchange.
My OpinionIf you are interested in participating for any bounty, I would advise you create a secondary email (fresh new email) specifically for bounty, so you can provide to this managers while you fill the form if it's part of the requirements and still be safe.
Regards.