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Re:A/B testing gets misused to juice metrics in the short term by musicale on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @06:54PM (#32076830)
> if we hit the the spam cannon too hard

Maybe consider, oh I don't know, not deploying a spam cannon in the first place?

The good news is that this sort of thing is enough to trigger the spam filter in my email program so I'll never see it.

Companies have this astonishing arrogance assuming they should be able to interrupt actual humans with robot messages from [email protected] - typically marketing messages that cannot actually be replied to and do not qualify as respectful communication.

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Re:A/B testing gets misused to juice metrics in the short term by geoduck14 on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @08:34PM (#32077626)
>Maybe consider, oh I don't know, not deploying a spam cannon in the first place?

I'm not at all related to the people you are talking to, but I am a dev who has accidentally built spam cannons before. It is surprisingly easy to spam people - you need to deliberately build in checks - and put them in the right places to prevent spam cannons.

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