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It's not spam if it's targeted - that's marketing.
by conorcleary 4y ago
It's not spam if it's targeted - that's marketing.
- bboygravity 4y agoIs this sarcasm? Can't tell...
- conorcleary 4y agoNo it's a ying-yang truth. You'll have arguments pro and con.
- bboygravity 4y agoUnsolicited email (spam) is spam. There's really no 2 ways about it. Targetted or not doesn't change that fact.
- filmgirlcw 4y agoNo one signed up to their newsletter. They scraped the emails of everyone who starred the repo and imported it into MailChimp and subscribed us all to a newsletter. That’s spam.
- willdr 4y agoThis is your brain on Finance, unfortunately.
- conorcleary 4y agoJust like you receive marketing copy in your mailbox.
- jeroenhd 4y agoMerriam-Webster defines spam as: "unsolicited usually commercial messages (such as emails, text messages, or Internet postings) sent to a large number of recipients or posted in a large number of places". The emails were unsollicited and sent to a large number of recipients. It's fits the dictionary definition of spam, despite not containing a direct advertisement. Cambridge merely defines spam as: "unwanted email, usually advertisements", which this also fits perfectly, as nobody who stars a Github repo sees that as confirmation of wanting join a mailing list. Furthermore, if this were marketing (it's an invitation into the community more than anything else) this email may actually violate the CAN-SPAM act. IANAL but I don't think it applies here as the email doesn't even offer anything, it's just begging for feedback.
- Brian_K_White 4y agoI think this was meant to be a dry and cynical observation that we probably all actually agree with. I don't think they approve. Think of it this way, if they actually approved, would this be how they would say it? Maybe. Anyone who thought it was a great idea and generally liked marketing would necessarily be so different from me that it only makes sense that I would not be good at thinking like them enough to accurately interpret what they wrote. So I suppose it's possible that this is perfectly direct and sincere, but it just does not seem reasonable. EDIT: From further comments below, I guess I got my answer. They actually don't see this as a problem. Oh well so much for giving people the benefit of the doubt. I mean, I guess they're allowed to have that opinion or subscribe to that reasoning that the targeted nature makes it somehow different or more acceptable. If someone wants to say "it's not bad behavior because of X train of reasonong" then all that matters is does X hold water? I didn't add either an up or down vote. But it's not an argument I think holds much water.
- sexy_year 4y agoI don't get this. We literally came out and apologize. https://github.com/OpenBB-finance/OpenBBTerminal/issues/1625 https://github.com/OpenBB-finance/OpenBBTerminal/issues/1625 - this provides my initial train of thought. But the "Welcome to our newsletter" was never the email intended to be sent. In any case, it was a shitty idea regardless. We apologized for it, but there's nothing we can do now to make up for it.
- Brian_K_White 4y agoI was more talking about this comment being so downvoted than the original infraction.
- yazzku 4y agoWhy? https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spam https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spam "unsolicited usually commercial messages (such as emails, text messages, or Internet postings) sent to a large number of recipients or posted in a large number of places" Doesn't matter if it's targeted or not.