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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.
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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.
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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 :)
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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.
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