[theme-reviewers] Hidden IP field in theme contact form

[Philip M. Hofer (Frumph)]

Yeah, really not having an issue with it, there’s no rule or regulation against sending the IP hidden or otherwise.    Mail’s generally have the originators IP in them to begin with, this is just making sure the IP of the ‘real’ originator since it will be coming from the users server’s location in the headers of the mail.
Just to point out that regular vanilla WordPress collects IP’s of comments without notifying.
From: Bryan Hadaway 
Sent: Friday, May 10, 2013 4:56 PM
To: theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org 
Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] Hidden IP field in theme contact form

1. To block known bad IPs (like Akismet), to build location stats on your users (no different than GA, nothing unethical about it that I can tell at first glance).


2. This would be better asked as why disclose that info? I've never seen a form on any website EVER, do this. That includes .org and .com. I've seen little snippets about why your email address is needed, but I've absolutely NEVER seen in a form in any context EVER have a little "PS: We also collect your IP for spam and banning purposes." And I sincerely doubt you or anyone else on this list has ever seen that besides buried deep in the bowels of the TOS or Privacy Policy fine print that doesn't really apply in this context anyways.


3. Because the options are stored in the db, not sent to someone's inbox. An inbox that perhaps would rather avoid being filled with potentially thousands of spam emails or even if they went to the spam folder. Also, I'm sure there are other serious professionals like myself who aren't negligent enough to simply delete their spam emails without scanning them for false positives first.


Hey, maybe this person really does somehow have malicious intent, though I can't imagine how, but ultimately I'm protected the precedent, not the individual use-case which I think most of us understand is the larger concern when these issues come up.


As to the last bit, that's programmer speak that goes right over my head.



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