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[–] Potatos_are_not_friends 74 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Spam filters are also built with users in mind.

If users are hitting the spam button, that's people signaling that the email is shit.

If people are telling them to shut up, that's not bias, that's "your words are garbage to GTFO"

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago

Sent an email to my local representative looking to improve things locally. No response, but I was signed up for several newsletters and campaign donation lists after that. Nearly as upsetting as the endless torrent of advertisements from the vet that put down my dog. No, I’m not in the market for heart worm medication anymore. Fuck that vet, and fuck my local rep.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Also, spam filters are trained by user response. Guess what personality type/computer education level is more likely to hit “REPORT SPAM” button versus the more technologically sophisticated and patient methods of deleting an email, unsubscribing, or filtering out, and how that may relate to their political party.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I work in IT and hit Spam on everything I perceive as spam.

Poison all the data and fuck spammers straight to hell, tyvm.

[–] Astroturfed 16 points 1 year ago

This is the way. I hit spam on every email I'm upset about receiving before unsubscribing.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

unsubscribing

Great way to show an e-mail spammer that the address works and is monitored by a human. Standard IT guidance for at least two decades has been to NOT use unsubscribe.

and how that may relate to their political party.

If there is a correlation between tech savvy and political party it's so small as to be meaningless.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That’s for actual spam, not merely a newsletter or marketing email you don’t wish to receive any longer. The distinction is my entire point. If you signed up for something and don’t wish to receive it any longer, that’s not spam.

Older people are more likely to be republicans. Older people are also less likely to be technologically sophisticated.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've never signed up for a newsletter. Buying things and donating to places and emailing anyone puts you on lists, and they are spam, because they never got consent.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, that is spam.