Bug report form encourages users to leak email

When creating a thread for reporting bugs, it says to use agent about and then paste it in this “Version Information” box here.

I’m a careless person and didn’t realize that agent about includes the user’s email in the last line and pasted the whole thing when reporting a bug. Now everyone knows my work email. I can’t even edit my post to remove my email (and even if I could, there’s an edit log that shows the original version) and now I’m going to get a lot of spam.

Hi Daniel,

Thank you for letting us know, and I’m sorry for the unexpected behavior. I’ve removed that post from the forum, so it’s no longer visible and can’t be indexed on search engines going forward. I really wouldn’t worry about it.

The reason it’s there is to help us identify the account for troubleshooting and provide personalized guidance getting people unstuck, but I see how that could inadvertently be included in a reply.

oh no but if that post is hidden, does that mean it won’t get the visibility it needs to get the bug fixed?

Nope, it doesn’t hurt it. Staff can still see the post, and the internal bug ticket is still available.

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