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​Why does reporting someone require me to input my email?​

A topic by lewdGorilla created Jun 25, 2022 Views: 333 Replies: 2
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This may be a misunderstanding, because I'm not a native English speaker, so I got a little bit confused about how the reporting system of itch works. In detail, at the top of the "report page" section there is:

"Your report may be shared with the creator of the page if necessary."

And then at the bottom of the report there is:

"Your email — If your report needs a reply we'll use it to communicate with you"

Now, then, does this mean, that my email address may be shared with the villain I'm reporting?

I'm very sure of that I'm not comfortable with sharing my email address with any random crazy anonymous people on the internet, so I would rather not report anything, if itch is willing to give my private email address to the person I'm reporting.

Furthermore, why does itch even ask for my email address, if I'm already logged in? Itch must already know my email address, so asking for it again looks very odd. Thinking that the person may be some evil mastermind hacker, his/her whole profile may be something deliberately crafted for data-mining, fraud, identity theft and other similar mischief, so I may have just be thinking that I clicked on the report link at the bottom of the page, but actually something else popped up instead. So, yeah, if reporting a person needs my email address, then why does itch ask me to manually input it to a text field, while I'm already logged in?

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Your email will not be shared with the person you are reporting. Reports go to our admin team, not to the developer. If you report is something that needs to be shared with the developer (eg. you are trying to trouble shoot a bug), then it may be forwarded to them by someone on our team.

Furthermore, why does itch even ask for my email address, if I’m already logged in?

The field is pre-filled with your account’s email address if you are logged in. If you with to be contacted at another address then you can change the email address there.

Okay, thanks :)

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