We have the technology to scrape your profile page too.

codeforafrica 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

Of course we do. but it's not happening. Not yet anyways. Or not at scale. It's like the joke with the bear. I don't need to outrun the bear, I only need to outrun you.

But I didn't post this to gloat, just to point out that spammers are lazy. Of course if everyone moves their email into the profile then this will change, but even if everyone reading this thread does it, most others won't, so I trust that this will still work for some time.

	▲	neilv 3 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It is happening, within the last two months, by multiple recruiting startup services scraping/monitoring HN, and matching that up somehow with email addresses, in an automated way.
	▲	egsseg 3 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		saying spammers are lazy is about as ridiculous as saying africans are lazy. perhaps you are just not attractive as a target.

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satvikpendem 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

And there have been reports of people doing just that, scraping HN profiles to promote their new startup.