What's up with new people using their email as username

ugjka · 06-16-2019, 09:44 AM

Is there something ambiguous on the registration page?

GazL · 06-16-2019, 10:00 AM

Perhaps people just got used to the google way of doing things where you login with your email address and then have a visible 'screen name' that gets displayed to others within the site. It's not all that uncommon for sites to work that way.

fatmac · 06-16-2019, 01:51 PM

I've seen it a few times - either they don't mind being spammed, or don't realize that the bots can find it.

frankbell · 06-16-2019, 08:05 PM

To build on what fatmac said, it puts the email address in the clear to be harvested by spammers.

ondoho · 06-17-2019, 12:58 AM

I just had a look at the regeistration page; there's nothing ambiguous about it (it specifically asks for an email address further down).

No, GazL's comment is the most likely explanation.

syg00 · 06-17-2019, 01:39 AM

What makes you think it is their email address ?.
Paranoid .... who ?.