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"It's not really fair to blame a spammer; their business depends on you getting spammed, spam is effective, and so they have little choice but to spam you."

• lisper 13y ago
  Not a proper analogy. Spam is a property of the delivery mechanism, linkbait is a property of the content. Apples and monkey wrenches.
  • raldi 13y ago
    Oh come on. Fine, pretend I said Nigerian scammers.
    • lisper 13y ago
      Still not a proper analogy. Nigerian scammers are scammers. They are committing fraud. Slate is an ad-supported publisher, which in most places is still considered an honorable trade.