Ask HN: ‪When did email spam become an acceptable “growth hack”?

Re:Ask HN: ‪When did email spam become an acceptable “growth... by pedrorijo91 on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @07:14AM (#13470704)

marking as spam on GMail really works? I do get a lot of similar emails, and I'm always marking as spam and it still get to my inbox. Not really sure how does GMails learns about spam, which fields it considers (just sender? subject? specific words?)?

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Re:Ask HN: ‪When did email spam become an acceptable “growth... by tmikaeld on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @01:30AM (#13479195)

We tried to analyze this behavior over employee inboxes on a company using Gmail exclusively and we saw that the users that routinely use the spam button as often or instead of the trash button are ignored on the spam markings (not reported to Amazon SES as spam). I think too many users have gotten used to abusing the spam button like that and that's why Google is ignoring those users.

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Re:Ask HN: ‪When did email spam become an acceptable “growth... by underyx on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @07:32AM (#13470789)

Okay, you've got me, I don't actually know.

But I think I remember seeing emails in spam with an explanation text that said 'this went to spam cause you marked similar messages as spam'.

Also, it seems to be learning when I move emails to Promotions/Forums/Updates/etc., so I don't see why this wouldn't be the case for Spam. Maybe it's only for my account though.

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