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Do you mean this seriously about letting the spammy through? If so please tell me why. I was cautious about blocking any messages at all, but I just thought, on
by 19eightyfour 9y ago
Do you mean this seriously about letting the spammy through? If so please tell me why. I was cautious about blocking any messages at all, but I just thought, one problem people complain about on HN with any service that lets anyone post easily is how it mostly just ends up being spammers... And that seemed like something that annoys people and world make then not want to come back. It's a trade-off tho. Because some interesting messages might get blocked, and those interesting people get a awful experience of just having their efforts silently ignored.... Which is really terrible.
Actually what I originally intended to do when I decided I must use this stupid domain for something was to simply encourage everyone to add pleaseno@pleasespamthis.email to all spam lists they knew, and provide like a gallery obscura, a "hall of horrors" of all the world's spam ( making it "universally accessible and useful" of course... With search and letting people reply. )
But then I assessed this and thought... It's a good gimmick, but I would probably only go there for 15 seconds, scan, and then, depart. And I thought probably everyone else would do this too, because who is tolerant of spam?
I know having the spam "in a glass case" lessens its "threat potency", and that publishing spam in a central place and letting any people reply without anyone "spammer" being able to reply them back directly, sort of turns the table on the power dynamic of spam. And maybe that's a good thing.... But also maybe most spammers are not so "powerful" anyway. I didn't necessarily want to go attacking that group...
Ought I still do this? Is this a better idea?