Show HN: a social network conducted entirely through email
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#2Wouldn't you get a ton of spam?
Re: Show HN: a social network conducted entirely through email
#3Wouldn't you get a ton of spam?
It is likely...but we don't want to weed emails in order to preserve the experience. You're still gonna get a lot of insightful discussion. But unfortunately, spam would come with the territory.
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#5Stock wordpress install? Come on guys
Re: Show HN: a social network conducted entirely through email
#6Wouldn't you get a ton of spam?
It is likely...but we don't want to weed emails in order to preserve the experience. You're still gonna get a lot of insightful discussion. But unfortunately, spam would come with the territory.
Additionally, you could choose to just communicate with whomever the sender of the email is if you find their email interesting.
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#7Wouldn't you get a ton of spam?
It is likely...but we don't want to weed emails in order to preserve the experience. You're still gonna get a lot of insightful discussion. But unfortunately, spam would come with the territory.
Understandable. Wouldn't that mean that spam will roll very quickly to many email accounts? Wouldn't spam engines start picking up application emails as spam emails(assuming once some discussion goes rogue with spammers the email receivers mark the conversation as spam)? Or am i missing something here.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is likely...but we don't want to weed emails in order to preserve the experience. You're still gonna get a lot of insightful discussion. But unfortunately, spam would come with the territory.
I think you underestimate the sheer volume of spam.
If users want us to weed out emails that we feel are spam we would do it.
But hell, no one's used the site or email yet so we can't anticipate anything.
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#9Stock wordpress install? Come on guys
yep, it's a bare-bones design. The purpose if for you to communicate through email with other users. The blog is merely for posting topics.
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#10You really need an example on the homepage. I read the opening description and still don't feel like I understand how it works. What kind of mail would I get? Would I be able to turn it off? You say 'social network' - so, do I have friends, or is this just a public discussion forum?