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Please do political ones too

MBCook 4y ago
I don’t think we’ll get rid of legitimate political spam (no matter how much most people want it). At least STOP works for those. But hopefully these same rules will help block the political scam stuff. Fake announcements, wrong polling place/election time info, libelous stuff not sent by legitimate (registered) organizations, etc. It’s something.
- inetknght 4y ago
  > At least STOP works for those. Hahaha no it doesn't.
  - qaz_plm 4y ago
    STOP seems to get my number added to additional lists, maybe by design.
    - inetknght 4y ago
      ...it's the same deal as replying to a spam email. All that automation picks up on the fact that the destination is more susceptible to an action than if you did nothing at all.
      - MSVi 4y ago
        If it's a legitimate company I can verify that's not the case (which most political sends are from). I can't speak for the multitude of companies that are abusing SMS though.
  - reaperducer 4y ago
    Hahaha no it doesn't. Then change phone companies. When I send a STOP message, I get a message from AT&T stating that the source number is now blocked from sending any more text messages to my phone.
    - brewdad 4y ago
      I'm not sure that's the behavior I would want from STOP. I have certainly sent STOP requests to retailers who over inform me of every step along the fulfillment process and each overnight stop as the item ships to me. I don't want all that. I DO however want to receive notice when my item is out of stock or ready for in-store pickup if I chose that option.
- crazygringo 4y ago
  The problem is 99% of political SMS's I get are not for any politician I can vote for. They're almost all from random districts across the country. I reply STOP and that always works for each individual campaign organization, but the problem is there are thousands of these orgs. In the months before voting I'll sometimes get multiple a day. Ugh.
  - Panino 4y ago
    > The problem is 99% of political SMS's I get are not for any politician I can vote for. They're almost all from random districts across the country. I get this but via email, and they typically say it'll take 2 weeks or more to stop sending me this unsolicited bulk email. This is despite unsubscription being instantaneous. Just as an aside, since high political office is a fairly direct path to immense wealth, I think these unwanted mails should be explicitly considered unsolicited, bulk commercial email. This is the precise definition of spam and we should treat it as spam and not just think of it as such.
- JohnFen 4y ago
  > legitimate political spam There's no such thing.
rdxm 4y ago
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I don’t think we’ll get rid of legitimate political spam (no matter how much most people want it). At least STOP works for those. But hopefully these same rules will help block the political scam stuff. Fake announcements, wrong polling place/election time info, libelous stuff not sent by legitimate (registered) organizations, etc. It’s something.

inetknght 4y ago
> At least STOP works for those. Hahaha no it doesn't.
- qaz_plm 4y ago
  STOP seems to get my number added to additional lists, maybe by design.
  - inetknght 4y ago
    ...it's the same deal as replying to a spam email. All that automation picks up on the fact that the destination is more susceptible to an action than if you did nothing at all.
    - MSVi 4y ago
      If it's a legitimate company I can verify that's not the case (which most political sends are from). I can't speak for the multitude of companies that are abusing SMS though.
- reaperducer 4y ago
  Hahaha no it doesn't. Then change phone companies. When I send a STOP message, I get a message from AT&T stating that the source number is now blocked from sending any more text messages to my phone.
  - brewdad 4y ago
    I'm not sure that's the behavior I would want from STOP. I have certainly sent STOP requests to retailers who over inform me of every step along the fulfillment process and each overnight stop as the item ships to me. I don't want all that. I DO however want to receive notice when my item is out of stock or ready for in-store pickup if I chose that option.
crazygringo 4y ago
The problem is 99% of political SMS's I get are not for any politician I can vote for. They're almost all from random districts across the country. I reply STOP and that always works for each individual campaign organization, but the problem is there are thousands of these orgs. In the months before voting I'll sometimes get multiple a day. Ugh.
- Panino 4y ago
  > The problem is 99% of political SMS's I get are not for any politician I can vote for. They're almost all from random districts across the country. I get this but via email, and they typically say it'll take 2 weeks or more to stop sending me this unsolicited bulk email. This is despite unsubscription being instantaneous. Just as an aside, since high political office is a fairly direct path to immense wealth, I think these unwanted mails should be explicitly considered unsolicited, bulk commercial email. This is the precise definition of spam and we should treat it as spam and not just think of it as such.
JohnFen 4y ago
> legitimate political spam There's no such thing.

rdxm 4y ago

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