Re:Disqus bait and switch, now with ads
by brown9-2 on Thursday February 14, 2013 @03:00PM
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The message being labeled with "Promotions" is as the result of a filter you created, right?
Re:Disqus bait and switch, now with ads
by jacquesm on Thursday February 14, 2013 @05:23PM
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Even if a spam filter would eat it: not receiving negative feedback is not the same as consent. So you can't just fire off an email and consider your duty done. If you want to use an email that way there should be some kind of confirmation link in there.
It's the new smart labels feature. It's automatic.
I'm pretty sure smart labels is opt-in, so it's more fair to say that it's the result of a filtering feature the user turned on but does not explicitly control and cannot accurately predict.
It's usually very reliable, so it's easy to forget that it can mislabel an important message as a generic promotion.
Re:Disqus bait and switch, now with ads
by emiliobumachar on Thursday February 14, 2013 @06:31PM
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The subject line seems a little too much like a generic promotion...
I can confirm they contact me as well. On 12/11/12, they sent me an email titled "Growing with Disqus". However,
1) Gmail auto-labeled it as "Promotions", so I didn't read it. Not disqus' fault, just saying.
2) The text is shady; never does it mention specifically that ads will be placed on your site, but dances around the issue before finally saying "if you'd rather not try this feature, you can always turn it off". I likely would not have understood that they were putting ads on my site even if I had given the email a quick read. The subject line sure doesn't help.
I don't mean that I'm outraged or surprised. Just confirming that I received the same email and examining it a bit.