The user list hides emails (except for self, obscured), has a button to show them, and pressing that logs a “viewed email” event for each user on the page (I think - I didn’t actually try this on my instance).
Are we talking about the email tab in admin view? If so, I think I agree, I can’t think of a single time I visited that page out of necessity (in fact, I just visited it today for the first time based on what I can recall… I’ve yet to find a reason to visit that page out of today’s curiosity)
Sorry, what do you disagree with? Currently those two buttons don’t exist for moderators. I’m suggesting that maybe they should, since moderators can see emails in other places anyway.
Yes, as a moderator, we have used access to the email of a user in the Admin area, their Profile page, etc as a way to identify members as spammers, advertisers, etc.
We use it a lot, as it is one of the important keys, along with username patterns that we can use to immediately identify a user as part of a larger group who does nothing more than post frivolous crap. You’d be amazed at how terrible human spammers/advertisers are at trying to conceal themselves.
Ehm, okay, that sort of makes sense. It makes the other places that still show emails make even less sense though
Right, so with that on (it was off by default), moderators do get the same set of “show” buttons on the profile. But perhaps that setting should then affect the user list page as well (if we don’t want moderators to be able to see emails, the button shouldn’t be there either right?) and indeed the email log page…