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Yeah the Bernie campaign sends me what seems like 10 texts per week since I donated, I honestly don’t understand it because it must really fatigue most people.

Yeah the Bernie campaign sends me what seems like 10 texts per week since I donated, I honestly don’t understand it because it must really fatigue most people. Maybe it optimized donations over some small A/B test but I will absolutely find a way to get off this mailing list ASAP if it continues. Every single ask for more money has some seemingly urgent reason for it but you can’t use that repeatedly over long durations! It reminds me of the story someone once posted here where every task was a P0 for the PM and eventually they started calling things P-1, P-2, etc Even once a week sounds like a lot but averaging more than one per day is just ridiculous.

jessaustin 7y ago
Same here, and I last donated to Bernie like three years ago. This time I'm giving to Tulsi, who seems much less aggressive on this.
- thephyber 7y ago
  To state the obvious, Bernie raises 10x what Tulsi does[1]. It's probably partly in how the campaign harvests new pledges from prior pledgers (even if it's aggressive). I'm under no allusions that she has the same name recognition that he has. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/07/16/us/politics/democratic-fundraising-2020.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/07/16/us/politics/d...
  - jessaustin 7y ago
    She's in! https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/tulsi-gabbard-is-the-12th-candidate-to-make-octobers-democratic-debate/ https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/tulsi-gabbard-is-the-12...
thomk 7y ago
I had a similar experience and finally just asked them to stop texting me and take me off their list, which they did.
seisvelas 7y ago
The Yang campaign has emailed but is extremely polite. I don't live in the US but since being on the mailing list, the donation solicitations were respectful and only moderately frequent. I still unsubscribed. I think this pattern really caught fire when Obama heavily employed it in 2008. That campaign bombarded your inbox for donations.
chrisdsaldivar 7y ago
I was taken off the sms list “effective immediately” because they asked if I was ready to Feel the Bern and I responded with a gif of Hulk Hogan in front of a giant American flag saying “Hell yeah brother!” I was just trying to be a patriotic millennial but it got me off the sms list so silver lining I guess. Now I donate whenever I have the spare cash and I don’t have to worry about them blowing up my phone.

jessaustin 7y ago

Same here, and I last donated to Bernie like three years ago. This time I'm giving to Tulsi, who seems much less aggressive on this.

thephyber 7y ago
To state the obvious, Bernie raises 10x what Tulsi does[1]. It's probably partly in how the campaign harvests new pledges from prior pledgers (even if it's aggressive). I'm under no allusions that she has the same name recognition that he has. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/07/16/us/politics/democratic-fundraising-2020.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/07/16/us/politics/d...
- jessaustin 7y ago
  She's in! https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/tulsi-gabbard-is-the-12th-candidate-to-make-octobers-democratic-debate/ https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/tulsi-gabbard-is-the-12...

thomk 7y ago

I had a similar experience and finally just asked them to stop texting me and take me off their list, which they did.

seisvelas 7y ago

The Yang campaign has emailed but is extremely polite. I don't live in the US but since being on the mailing list, the donation solicitations were respectful and only moderately frequent. I still unsubscribed. I think this pattern really caught fire when Obama heavily employed it in 2008. That campaign bombarded your inbox for donations.

chrisdsaldivar 7y ago

I was taken off the sms list “effective immediately” because they asked if I was ready to Feel the Bern and I responded with a gif of Hulk Hogan in front of a giant American flag saying “Hell yeah brother!” I was just trying to be a patriotic millennial but it got me off the sms list so silver lining I guess. Now I donate whenever I have the spare cash and I don’t have to worry about them blowing up my phone.