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"mildly annoying" That's another name for spam.
by BiteCode_dev 1y ago
"mildly annoying"
That's another name for spam.
- thorncorona 1y agomarketing emails are mildly annoying until you want to buy something and they become useful for the 20% coupon
- iancmceachern 1y agoOr the band you love is in town
- BiteCode_dev 1y agoSure, would you be kind enough to publish your personal phone number on this public thread? I'm sure you'll get mostly useful feedback.
- iancmceachern 1y agoI own and operate a public facing company with my name on it. This is already the case. Par for the course.
- Viliam1234 1y agoOr there is a discount for Viagra
- distances 1y agoIf I want certain marketing emails for these purposes, I create a rule to mark it read on arrival and moved directly to a certain folder where I can find it when needed. It will still never see my inbox.
- whatevaa 1y agoMost people don't know what a rule is.
- BiteCode_dev 1y agoThat's what opt-in is for. But it almost never is, isn't it?
- BobaFloutist 1y agoWhat if the product just cost 20% less in the first place?
- satvikpendem 1y agoThen your company crashes in sales. https://www.forbes.com/sites/panosmourdoukoutas/2017/02/24/a-strategic-mistake-that-still-haunts-jc-penney/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/panosmourdoukoutas/2017/02/24/a...
- fc417fc802 1y agoPerhaps historically, but these days I think spam refers to senders that don't play by the rules. Unsolicited (ie didn't obtain the recipient's address in a legitimate manner), no unsubscribe link (or not honored), technical measures intended to circumvent various filters, etc.
- selcuka 1y agoI agree. These days I don't report email as spam if it has a (working) unsubscribe link.
- BiteCode_dev 1y agoOh, so a day is not rainy if your coat dries after it?
- selcuka 1y agoNo, rain is still rain. I just stopped complaining about it as it rains 24/7.
- amy214 1y agoThe ugly and awkward thing about the unsubscribe link is I never subscribed in the first place. Someone else did on my behalf. To even ask to be unsubscribed, I feel, is taking some ownership of the subscription and playing into a crooked system. It's like being sent an invoice for something I never ordered and needing to cancel the invoice. And even if you say, "buzz off", who is to say someone won't decide to "resubscribe" you next day, given it's outside your control. Me personally I won't give a pass to business with an unsubscribe link, I have extreme disgust that we're in some make-believe pretend world that I asked for this in the first place
- SaucyWrong 1y agoI’m with you. I learned about the concept of “implicit opt-in / consent” while I was building an email marketing feature on a platform and I found the concept disgusting, but was told that because it’s technically legal, our customers considered it table stakes.