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You do, but no one else does. How about a header in email that the sender can include that forces the email to the top of your inbox and makes it undeleteable?
by thwarted 14y ago
You do, but no one else does.
How about a header in email that the sender can include that forces the email to the top of your inbox and makes it undeleteable? You can opt-out by having an email address of user+optout@example.com all the time.
- sillysaurus 14y agoYou do, but no one else does. How small-minded. There are many of us who want to be discovered by bots. We just keep quiet because people like you have such strong opinions and aren't afraid to be mean about them. Wouldn't it be ironic if your opinion was in the minority?
- thwarted 14y agoThe people who want opt-in are not the bad guys here, and neither are the people who want opt-out. The bad guys are those who poisoned the well, tragedy of the commons, by abusing the system. Unfortunately, there is a greater chance of abuse than there is utility, and it's more difficult for everyone to manage opt-out on an individual occurrence basis than it is to manage opt-in centrally by trying to ban bots across the board. And neither are that actually that successful, despite there having been individual successes in some communities.
- gbog 14y agoYes, I want bots too.
- thomaslangston 14y agoReddit's user made bots are an awesome addition and I'm very glad they are not opt-in. I think there is room in every community for automated users, if the tools for managing misbehaving users is strong enough. Github however has been known to not have strong moderation tools, so perhaps a temporary opt-in policy could be used until those tools improve?