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Because it's a perfectly valid character in the local part[0] of the email address?
are they in practice?
https://gmail.googleblog.com/2008/03/2-hidden-ways-to-get-mo...
https://support.google.com/a/users/answer/9282734?hl=en#:~:t... "Create variations of your email address"
not a single one provided any evidence of anything other than + and extra dots. parent commenter is talking out of his nether regions
>commenter points to wikipedia page showing that + is a generally accepted standard
>I accept this but point to the page's other largely unimplemented characters, to show that email standards are not clearly defined, and it's not surprising there are services not implementing rarer characters like +
>you accidentally imply that all the characters I list are implemented
>you also claim this is a "well-established standard" - something easily disprovable - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29319221 - so unsurprising you refuse to defend it
essentially because my comment was getting downvoted and people were disagreeing with me, you felt comfortable 1) starting off rudely ("this is such an awful take"), 2) overreaching from the established facts, and 3) being childish and accusatory when questioned
the way you act around people in positions of weakness is your real self
> essentially because my comment was getting downvoted and people were disagreeing with me, you felt comfortable 1) starting off rudely ("this is such an awful take"), 2) overreaching from the established facts, and 3) being childish and accusatory when questioned
my criticism of your acting in bad faith has nothing to do with the fact that others did as well. Pointing that out was an attempt to allow you to understand that you may be incorrect.
as for overreaching or "being childish", that's unsubstantiated and imagined.
>you accidentally imply that all the characters I list are implemented
friend, I never did this, you simply misunderstood. You seem to have a problem with blaming others for your own mistakes.
>you also claim this is a "well-established standard" - something easily disprovable - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29319221 - so unsurprising you refuse to defend it
This is the definition of cherry-picking. The standard was established by several mail providers and is codified all over the web: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_address#Local-part
If a naive developer doesn't adhere to this established standard, it doesn't suddenly make it not a standard; the developer is not following it. The standard is set by the mail providers.
> the way you act around people in positions of weakness is your real self
This is an absurd statement. If you are feeling persecuted in the comments section of a thread about email standards, you might need to unplug for a while. "people in positions of weakness" lol, this is Hacker News, no one cares about downvotes. Please just back off of this conversation, this isn't something you need to "win" or something. You're arguing in bad faith, plain and simple.
overreaching? who knows? but sadly I think we can substantiate "childish". and let's be real, how can we describe repeated ad hominems and unfounded accusations in place of actual discussion? bad faith flamebait
For added security? For ad canary?
+tags have been normal way of handling email for multiple decades (probably longer, but I have used them for close to two decades now)
Before recently switching to iCloud email hiding I tagged every service I used with unique tag. This makes it harder for my credentials to be used in mass scans and I have caught few services selling (or leaking) emails to spammers since the spammers have contacted me with `+companyname` tag.
I use pluses everywhere. It's a basic ASCII character. I've been doing this for 20 years. Google and other email registrars have expressly recommended it in the past as a method of automatic labeling.
If the registrars supports the email address, any online service which handles email also needs to follow this well-established standard.
OP wasn't asking for trouble. The truth is you have a misconception about what a "normal email" is. This is such a bizarre high horse to mount.
if you don't want to define your terms or back up your claims with evidence, don't say them in the first place. don't start insulting people and demanding action from them when they ask for that evidence or want you to elaborate
stay advancing the discussion my friend. keep accusing anyone you disagree with of being ignorant and disingenuous, that's healthy for the debate
to show just how disingenuous you're being here is the current wikipedia section on sub-addressing: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Email_address&old...
it is a less-commonly implemented feature of email addresses. whether it's possible or not, as shown in your link, is beside the point. as I illustrated, there are plenty of possible features of email that are not commonly implemented, and I've also linked to Hacker News posts of people complaining that the + sign is not implemented in enough websites. what more evidence do you need? it's very clearly not even remotely a universal standard, even as shown in the link you just listed:
>Some mail services support
you are also correct that i do not agree with you opinion; it is a well established 'standard'
you're pointing out people complain that web forms don't support it but that is not an issue with the providers, just the implementation of those forms(or their backends)
It’s very common, especially if your users are halfway technical which users of a games service surely are.
2. blame the user for the effects the system's faults cause
3. provide a possible workaround
6/10 not terrible, i'd drop the victim blaming though