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Re:An email list’s open rate drops over 50% after changes to... by paulsutter on Friday July 07, 2017 @10:22AM (#14718516)
That's hilarious: A newsletter about how-to-spam is treated as spammy and the author is upset. In the end, everyone thinks they're one of the good guys.

> The aim of this blog is to help anyone with a website find proven content ideas that they can use to drive more traffic and links to their own sites. The concept is already working, with one recent article helping a reader get on the front page of Product Hunt.

Re:An email list’s open rate drops over 50% after changes to... by SamUK96 on Friday July 07, 2017 @10:55AM (#14718791)
This is instantly what I thought too. Essentially this guy is teaching how to get rich by using SEO, catchy gimmicks/ideas, and the likes. The spam teacher themselves get filtered, how ironic.
Re:An email list’s open rate drops over 50% after changes to... by Bartweiss on Friday July 07, 2017 @11:39AM (#14719213)
Heh - I wouldn't be surprised if the language used sets off the filter. Machine learning isn't great at abstractions like "writing spam" versus "writing samples of spam someone else might write", so I imagine this sort of topic is particularly prone to filtering.
Re:An email list’s open rate drops over 50% after changes to... by martokus on Friday July 07, 2017 @11:08AM (#14718888)
Yes, welcome to the world of Viperchill - the shadow king of get rich by teaching others how to get rich schemes. I wouldn't be surprised if Google personally targeted him, I would do :)
Re:An email list’s open rate drops over 50% after changes to... by viperchill on Friday July 07, 2017 @12:23PM (#14719653)
Sadly this is happening to a lot more people than just me otherwise I would not have written about it.
Re:An email list’s open rate drops over 50% after changes to... by Animats on Friday July 07, 2017 @02:33PM (#14720847)
Exactly. World's smallest violin plays.

With a title of "Launching my new daily blog (and podcast)", and sending in bulk, I'd expect a good spam filter to send it to spam. "I’m Starting a Brand New Live Case Study. Over one hour of free training in today's video..." was also flagged as spam. On keywords alone, those titles just scream "spammer".

Re:An email list’s open rate drops over 50% after changes to... by viperchill on Friday July 07, 2017 @12:22PM (#14719643)
About how to spam?

Lol, that's quite the jump you made there.

If you read the article, you'll find there are many other industries which (suddenly) have the same issue.