Why I can't put my email in a torrent description?

[arjunare]

Well while I was uploading a torrent a wish to put an email so if the torrent had any issue in the future people could tell me, but I notice that TPB don't show my email in the description when I added the torrent. Can some one tell me why? And also is there a way to change my user name in Suprbay?

[workerbee]

I'll let someone else explain the technicalities of using an email address in the torrent description. One workaround solution: my torrents all contain a link to my SuprBay profile page, from which users can PM me.

[Moe]

I don't know if filtering e-mail address is intentional or not, but in general, posting your e-mail address in a public place is generally not a good ideal unless you like copious amounts of spam mixed with subscriptions to midget porn.

Forum usernames can't be changed. If you want a new username, register a new account.

[Sid]

It is intentional, for a range of privacy and security reasons.
- As Moe points out, email addresses posted on the internet are scraped by bots and added to spam lists
- Were emails to be allowed, nothing could stop people accidentally or deliberately/maliciously posting other people's email addresses.
- If a torrent has "issues" they will affect other downloaders, so it is in everyone's best interests that in such cases comments are posted and replied to publicly rather than in secret.
- This is a public moderated site, people can be reasonably confident of information they see posted here. Were anyone to be lured into a private email exchange their identity could be compromised, or worse.