[Reviewer Tools] Anonymising Reviewer Emails (original) (raw)
It is a fact the developers are often not happy if their extensions are rejected during a review. While it should not cause any further complications, in reality that is not always the case.
There are instance where the dissatisfied developers resort to targeting the reviewer via other AMO systems as a consequence.
There are even situations where developer blames the addon-reviewer for issues not even related to the review or reviewer.
AMO systems such as reviewer's addon user-reveiw, addon support & addon Abuse Reports are then targeted for harassment and retaliation.
For example:
Harassment of reviewer via user-review system:
https://github.com/mozilla/addons/issues/962
https://github.com/mozilla/addons-server/issues/9686
Harassment of reviewer via add-on support pages:
https://github.com/erosman/support/issues/47
https://github.com/erosman/support/issues/51
Harassment of reviewer via add-on Abuse Reports (since 2015)
https://reviewers.addons.mozilla.org/en-US/reviewers/abuse-reports/firemonkey
Harassment of reviewer via discourse.mozilla.org
(there have been instances in the past)
IMHO, review emails could be generalised and anonymised (similar to auto-approval) in order to avoid such occurrences and to enable reviewers to review add-ons without the fear of becoming a victim of harassment or reprisal from unhappy developers.