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Re: Show HN: Should I Send It? Helping you understand your mood in emails

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geowwy wrote: post #49
ianmcgowan wrote: post #26

It's a neat idea, but after too many sarcastic, "clever", trying-to-be-funny, defensive, et al emails in my career I have a simpler heuristic. If I have to ask myself "should I send it?", the answer is no. Leave it in drafts (with no one in the to: line!) until either things have cooled down and I delete it, or there's more perspective and it's actually ok to send. I have too many fails to tell, but the worst ever wa…

The real value of this tool is as an objective measure of how pleasant your communications are. Now that Codes of Conduct are the norm rude/abusive behaviour is not tolerated, but this can cause problems because one person might see rude and abusive behaviour where another person does not. Having a tool to objectively measure incorrect words and thoughts would be a great way to protect developers from themselves.

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Re: Show HN: Should I Send It? Helping you understand your mood in emails

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Post by gumby »

Can you invert it? This makes me think of Decker's wife in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep who adjusted her mood organ (designed to dispense psychiatric drugs each morning to stabilize your emotions) to make her depressed and miserable.

"Your message is insufficiently vitriolic. Send anyway? (y/n)"

Re: Show HN: Should I Send It? Helping you understand your mood in emails

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Post by tobtoh »

As someone who recently switched back to Firefox, I've come to realise how many of these useful Gmail addons are strictly limited to Chrome only.

Firefox has been terrific for everything else, but it's surprised me how much functionality I've built into Gmail through addons and how it's almost a showstopper for me migrating to Firefox.

Re: Show HN: Should I Send It? Helping you understand your mood in emails

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Post by mgkimsal »

geowwy wrote: post #49
ianmcgowan wrote: post #26

It's a neat idea, but after too many sarcastic, "clever", trying-to-be-funny, defensive, et al emails in my career I have a simpler heuristic. If I have to ask myself "should I send it?", the answer is no. Leave it in drafts (with no one in the to: line!) until either things have cooled down and I delete it, or there's more perspective and it's actually ok to send. I have too many fails to tell, but the worst ever wa…

The real value of this tool is as an objective measure of how pleasant your communications are. Now that Codes of Conduct are the norm rude/abusive behaviour is not tolerated, but this can cause problems because one person might see rude and abusive behaviour where another person does not. Having a tool to objectively measure incorrect words and thoughts would be a great way to protect developers from themselves.

> Now that Codes of Conduct are the norm rude/abusive behaviour is not tolerated, but this can cause problems because one person might see rude and abusive behaviour where another person does not.

I dare say "abusive behavior" has never been "tolerated", but our individual and societal recognition of "abusive behavior" is different now than earlier.

Re: Show HN: Should I Send It? Helping you understand your mood in emails

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Post by mnsc »

I'm a "tech dude" who have struggled with emotional control. I used to think "I don't have that many emotions, I'm so rational" which many heated emails proved wrong. But I have worked hard at recognizing and naming feelings and emotions and trying to figure out where they come from,and I'm doing quite well now I think. So this is something I would have liked in the past but this is just a glaring symptom of a problem of people acting without knowing what feeling is in control. Sad.

(What workes for me is "non violent communication" btw, google it)

Re: Show HN: Should I Send It? Helping you understand your mood in emails

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Post by anonytrary »

ianmcgowan wrote: post #26

It's a neat idea, but after too many sarcastic, "clever", trying-to-be-funny, defensive, et al emails in my career I have a simpler heuristic. If I have to ask myself "should I send it?", the answer is no. Leave it in drafts (with no one in the to: line!) until either things have cooled down and I delete it, or there's more perspective and it's actually ok to send. I have too many fails to tell, but the worst ever wa…

Feature request for email: Click "maybe send" to queue the email and send it to yourself in 3 hours, where you might be in the right headspace to rethink anything before hitting "send" to the original recipient.

Re: Show HN: Should I Send It? Helping you understand your mood in emails

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Post by rapnie »

Sujan wrote: post #4

For anyone wondering how it works: > - The chrome extension doesn’t read the content of your web pages. > - The chrome extension only reads your highlighted text when you click the extension smile icon. > - Your highlighted text is passed from your browser to our API where the sentiment is calculated, we do not store in any way the text you highlight. https://www.rarely.io/work/should-i-send-it

> Everyone benefits, the recipient of the email, the person sending the email and the business.

It is not clear to me how you benefit.

> Your highlighted text is passed from your browser to our API where the sentiment is calculated, we do not store in any way the text you highlight. [..] We have many ideas of how to push this tool forward.

You don't store my text. How about my sentiment?

rarely.io has a GDPR page (which should really be called Privacy Policy, IMHO), but shouldisendit.io - where you are offering the extension - has not.

> Get involved. Install the extension and start using it. We would love to know how you get on and any candid feedback you have

Install? No thanks. Please first get your transparency and privacy ensurances in order, is my kind (not candid) feedback to you :)

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