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@omgmajk, I agree with you. There are a lot of bad actors out there who will misuse your information, in this case your email to send you spam. I do not recommend to use your real email on suspicious websites. However many legit websites and online communities wants real people and respectfulness of their work. So whenever you want to join a trustful community using your real email is appreciated.

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How do I know whether a web site that I've never heard of before is legit or suspicious? One way of finding out is to give them a disposable e-mail address and see if they spam me or share my address. If you want my trust, you need to earn it.

Also, providing a disposable e-mail address doesn't make me any less of a "real person". For example, I've been here on HN for 11 years. I originally signed up with a disposable e-mail address (one of the domains on your block list), and only gave them my real address several years later, when I started corresponding with the moderators. If HN had no problem at all with this, why should you?

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