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In the worst case, someone thought they were going to get an answer, and they didn't...IMO that deserves a shrug, not a public campaign to take them down. Sure

by 300bps 13y ago

In the worst case, someone thought they were going to get an answer, and they didn't...IMO that deserves a shrug, not a public campaign to take them down. Sure, and a single spam message is a minor nuisance worthy of hitting the delete key. Until you get a sea of 1,000 daily spam messages drowning out the 100 legitimate emails you get per day. Slimy is slimy regardless of the scale the slime is distributed. Experts Exchange's business model was based on repeated and systematic abuses of people's time. That's worth more than a shrug.

t50 13y ago
Ever hear of a spam filter, Mine works extermely effective..
- itsybitsycoder 13y ago
  Unfortunately Google doesn't let you manually filter out sites from your search results anymore. At one point EE was the only site on my filtered list...
  - t50 13y ago
    Exclude a word -query Add a dash (-) before a word or site to exclude all results that include that word. This is especially useful for synonyms like Jaguar the car brand and jaguar the animal. jaguar speed -car or pandas -site:wikipedia.org Tip: You can also exclude results based on other operators, like excluding all results from a specific site. FROM: https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/136861?p=adv_operators&hl=en https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/136861?p=adv_ope... See how hard that is?
    - qu4z-2 13y ago
      You're suggesting I type -site:experts-exchange.com as part of every google query I make? I mean, it's a handy way of refining searches, but I don't want to have to type out my spam filter every time I search...
- jrochkind1 13y ago
  No, I've never heard of that, thanks! So wait, now that I've read up on these, you're suggesting that it's not treating people poorly to send them spam... because most of them will never see your spam becuase they have effective spam filters? Wait, why would you want to send something that you know nobody will ever see because of their highly effective spam filters?

by 300bps 13y ago

t50 13y ago

Ever hear of a spam filter, Mine works extermely effective..

itsybitsycoder 13y ago
Unfortunately Google doesn't let you manually filter out sites from your search results anymore. At one point EE was the only site on my filtered list...
- t50 13y ago
  Exclude a word -query Add a dash (-) before a word or site to exclude all results that include that word. This is especially useful for synonyms like Jaguar the car brand and jaguar the animal. jaguar speed -car or pandas -site:wikipedia.org Tip: You can also exclude results based on other operators, like excluding all results from a specific site. FROM: https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/136861?p=adv_operators&hl=en https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/136861?p=adv_ope... See how hard that is?
  - qu4z-2 13y ago
    You're suggesting I type -site:experts-exchange.com as part of every google query I make? I mean, it's a handy way of refining searches, but I don't want to have to type out my spam filter every time I search...
jrochkind1 13y ago
No, I've never heard of that, thanks! So wait, now that I've read up on these, you're suggesting that it's not treating people poorly to send them spam... because most of them will never see your spam becuase they have effective spam filters? Wait, why would you want to send something that you know nobody will ever see because of their highly effective spam filters?