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I don't think the field should have special semantics ("email address") ...

I quite agree. The instructions for the field would be very open-ended. It could even include brief instructions, multiple avenues to try, etc.

"emergency contact" sort of implies that this could be an emergency that needs to be dealt with as-soon-as-possible

I've been putting "emergency contact" in quotes because I don't actually envision an actual emergency use case, like "this monk is going into anaphylactic shock". What this data element shares with an actual emergency contact is that it could be someone other than yourself we should contact, in the event that you seem to have fallen off the face of the earth.

"PM has a very big security problem, it's all hands on deck for gods, site admins and pmdevs"

Well, the gods would be leading that, and they already have each other's contact info outside of PerlMonks.

As for dealing with long absence . . .

Obviously, we can't assume that your next of kin will log into your PerlMonks account and let us know what's happened.

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Re^3: RFC: Add profile field "emergency contact" or such like as
by bliako (Abbot) on Nov 30, 2023 at 23:03 UTC
    Obviously, we can't assume that your next of kin will log into your PerlMonks account and let us know what's happened.

    Perhaps the next-of-kin can even volunteer to take absent Monk's place and continue the divine work? Jokingly...

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      I see 4 types of monks here
      • regulars who were extremely careful to hide their identity, I remember a "what happened to BUK" thread, and those won't share any emergency contact.
      • regulars which keep their identity confident inside a small group of other regulars, they can be contacted via said group if there is a similar thread.
      • regulars with open or (semi) open identity like me, they are easily googled.
      • non-regulars, well who would care to know
      Bottom line, if someone really wants others to know "what happened", he'll already have social contact to others here.

      Or is anyone here belonging to a 5th group, wanting to explain their case?

      Update

      I mean yeah, we can add a secret textarea in settings or in edit-profile to fill in an emergency contact. I just doubt the investment will pay off 🤷🏻‍♂️

      Cheers Rolf
      (addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
      see Wikisyntax for the Monastery

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        I remember a "what happened to BUK" thread

        You just provoked me into expanding my Perl Monks Vandalism References with a new Missing Monks section. :)

        If the "what happened to BUK" thread you remembered is not listed there, it would be good if you could let us know so I can keep searching. 

        👁️🍾👍🦟
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        I just doubt the investment will pay off

        Maybe. The investment was less than 5 minutes of my time, so... 🤷🏻‍♂️

        (Go to User Settings, see the new field 'Next Of Kin POC'. I'm open to ideas for better wording.)

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        Bottom line, if someone really wants others to know "what happened", he'll already have social contact to others here

        This is part of the reason why there is a link to my LinkedIn profile on my PM profile...when my demise happens, news will appear on LinkedIn at some point or whatever platform takes it place.

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      Perhaps the next-of-kin can even volunteer to take absent Monk's place and continue the divine work?

      Oh no! Most of my family thinks that WhatsApp is the best chat app for your privacy and security problems don't happen because they run Windows. Giving them write access to my source code (or to that of the monastery) would be an astonishingly bad move, second only to inviting Kim Jong Un to run your workers union.

      I mean, i love my family and i'm perfectly fine if you want to do this experiment. Just make doubly sure i *really* have passed of before you start, i want to be safely on the other side of the (barred) pearly gates before the fit hits the shan...

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        I recognize that your comment was mostly tongue-in-cheek, but to the extent that it wasn't:

        Nothing in this proposal affects who can log in. Essentially, if you were unexpectedly gone for a year or something and another monk was worried about you, we (the admins) would have a way to reach out to "someone" and ask if you're OK.

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        A post mortem forwarding service may be the next big business opportunity.

        Something like:

        Make sure your widow can reply to all messages from your drink buddies, while bills from porn sites are automatically deleted.

        Triggered after your mobile stopped recording your breath for a week ...

        (hmm ... /me in anticipation of "Google RIP", "Meta Death" and "iGrave" to hit the market soon 🤔)

        Cheers Rolf
        (addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
        see Wikisyntax for the Monastery

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        lol

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