Are user able to see other user emails?

gifters do see winners emails.

very rare for us to actually email you though.

Yes, if you look at the winners page for any of the giveaways you created, you will see the email address of the giveaway winner. The only users that can see your email address are the ones you win a giveaway from.

I have never emailed anyone on this site and don't think I have ever received an email from anyone either. I don't feel like we need to see other users email addresses. The site already sends an email to notify the winner that they won and a Steam account is required to create an account here, so private communication can go through Steam if it is needed. People should be activate on the site and see that they won, there should be no reason for me to track them down to try and get them to activate their game. If they don't care enough about their win to activate it within 7 days or accept a friend request on Steam so someone can send them the game, I would prefer to just request a new winner after 7 days and let the game go to someone who might appreciate it more.

If you want to change your email address to something different, you can do that from this page.

really really hope they don't fix this breach. it's the only reason why i create gibs.

If you took time to create a discussion about this why not just activate the win? It's probably less effort to activate and click received.

TIP: You can always change your email address and have it go to a "junk" email address so you will never be bothered.

You seem to be that kind of person I hope will never win one of my giveaways.

While I do see your point about being "pressed to activate", your probably not aware that Godfall (your latest win and I assume the giveaway in question) is part of JingleJam, in which all keys MUST be redeemed before December 31st, otherwise they expire and are made invalid.

The giveaway creator was likely just trying to convey the urgency in which you should activate it before the headline.

No there is no way to 'block' this. If you only use 1 email address create a secondary one for irrelevant matters. Keep that as the SG email address.
I think you are absolutely justified in your skepticism, while having never received a personal email like that nor having done that myself. It is a good option to have. I would only consider emailing someone if im familiar with them on SG or Steam and they are inactive on the usual mediums.
I would absolutely not care that much to actually contact some stranger via email! Id rather have the GA rerolled.

But as AllTracTurbo pointed out, we can change the set email address. So if someone (as in your case) decides to email the winner. It would be alright to have your secondary email in there.

Thank you all for the answers and sorry for asking something that could be actually very easily verified on my end (I did try, but I was on a rush, on mobile, it was late night and I had a early wakeup today. I must have missed the right pages). I think steagifts should at least give the choice of showing or not.

I've emailed users often enough over the years for failing to activate their games after seven days. In the past when I've asked for re-rolls for this reason, I've been asked by Support to furnish copies of emails or Steam messages demonstrating that I've tried to make contact. I'd MUCH rather have the giveaway re-rolled if the winner can't be bothered to activate the game in the course of seven days, rather than contacting them at all, but that hasn't been a choice in the past.

https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/7CQTL/a-bit-annoying

It's interesting that both parties posted threads about this giveaway. I tend to feel for the winner on this one.

If you aren't winning, nobody sees your mail.

Emailing someone is always the last solution to me, after waiting for 7 days and posting in one of the winners giveaway and still no reply. Luckily this happend only 2 times to me (of nearly 400 giveaways). Don't even read the email address of the winner when I don't need to email. 😁

Sometimes people make a bunch of short GAs hoping to get bumped up a level so they can enter a GA they are unable to reach so they can get a little... antsy for winners to activate.
This being said, I have been in your situation before, as I travel out of the country and end up on my mobile with limited internet connection for a few days at a time so I get it. I usually reply in the GA to explain it'll take a few days for me to activate.

However, yes, it seems odd that emails are still available to gifters in these days of data privacy.

I've never had this problem, but I created another email for here because I didn't want to leak my main email.