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Totally agree, I did not consent to receive marketing for your start-up. My email is on GitHub for serious inquiries or security concerns regarding my projects.
by ssddanbrown 4y ago
Totally agree, I did not consent to receive marketing for your start-up. My email is on GitHub for serious inquiries or security concerns regarding my projects.
I've recently starting calling out such companies. A couple of cases:
- Diffgram - Questioned how they received my marketing consent on their community slack chat, along with another user, got banned.
- Buildable - Called out the founder on Twitter and was blocked in response.
While calling out seems just to result in being silenced/blocked, my hope is that it puts pressure on those companies, and others observing, to not market in this way.
- gnu8 4y agoWhy would they block you when they are the ones that contacted you?
- Xylakant 4y agoIf you block people on twitter, they cannot interact with your tweets anymore and that effectively makes it impossible to call them out to other people reading those tweets. It reduces reach for those who are blocked.