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Quora has this nasty dark pattern where they send you spam e-mail with different senders for each "space". If you simply click on "Block this sender" in your e-
by haolez 5y ago
Quora has this nasty dark pattern where they send you spam e-mail with different senders for each "space". If you simply click on "Block this sender" in your e-mail client, it will not work, since they will send e-mails to you from new addresses. You have to block them at the domain level.
In my opinion, this is extremely user hostile for the sake of improving some metrics.
- jazzyjackson 5y agois it spam email? the unsubscribe link brings me to my email prefences with a single option, on or off.
- gbear605 5y agoI’ve found that they ignored any unsubscribe requests and the only way to stop getting multiple emails per day was to create a filter for their domain to my trash box.
- Karunamon 5y agoI think calling this a "dark pattern" is unnecessarily uncharitable given that you can control per-space email/notifications in your user settings already. Additionally, each space's email takes the form of "<name>-space@quora.com", which is trivial to filter on.
- haolez 5y agoBut sometimes the spaces are really weird, like "games-for-vegan-musicians-space" :D
- fault1 5y agoI also get quite aggressive mobile notifications from them.
- hdjjhhvvhga 5y agoMy domain-level spam filter has hundreds of domains, started with linkedin.com and facebook.com. These weasels will invent a hundred ways to get into your inbox in spite of turning off all possible mail notifications that exist at that moment. In the past, I used to use two rules: mark as read and archive. These days I just automatically delete all.
- bongoman37 5y agoYes, this made me delete my Quora account. The emails are vaguely spammy and despite trying to reduce the frequency, every so often they started a new category of email that you had to independently cancel or block.