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The article describes it working though. It was able to string along some salesman for 5 minutes, much longer than he would wait if someone picked up the phone
by im3w1l 3y ago
The article describes it working though. It was able to string along some salesman for 5 minutes, much longer than he would wait if someone picked up the phone and said nothing.
- kibwen 3y agoThe only reason it works in a telemarketing context is because "hellbanning" doesn't exist for phones, it's a synchronous medium where you need to keep them on the line somehow, as you note. That's not a concern for asynchronous mediums like forums. In addition, banning someone in the context of a forum is the responsibility of the operators of the platform, but stringing along a telemarketer is the responsibility of the individual users of the platform. It's not equivalent to a hellban, it's the equivalent of trolling, but now automated. If it ever started happening in large numbers, the platform operators (the phone companies) would change their terms of service to make it illegal, because having machines trolling each other indefinitely uses up their network capacity for no reason.