Just to clear the things out: we do not spam and never intended to. Perhaps in the early days of the project we sent out disturbing notifications about microdonations, but that was fixed long ago, just see the algorithm here: https://github.com/tip4commit/tip4commit/blob/master/app/models/tip.rb#L115-L126
We send emails only to public email addresses of contributors who received tips for their contribution and only when ALL of the following conditions are met:
- contributor's balance is above the threshold
- contributor didn't specify his or her withdrawal address
- contributor didn't unsubscribe
- contributor wasn't notified during last 30 days -- btw if contributor doesn't specify bitcoin address during 30 days, tips will be returned to donation pool anyway
- project maintainer didn't disable notification for contributors of his or her project
Email recipient can explicitly unsubscribe or just ignore the message.
If there is any victim of our spam please create a ticket at github with facts. So far most of the criticism comes from people who never got
Update: just placed this explanation here so that everybody could comment.
Update2: temporary disabled all email notifications, discussing fundamental issues: https://github.com/tip4commit/tip4commit/issues/157