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You could try offering that money to a TA for a limited number of email assists or phone calls. They're usually both pretty strapped for cash and people who enjoy helping.
What does TA mean in this context? Technical Architect?
How We Make Money at Stack Overflow
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They make over 10 million dollars a year.
Between 300 people cited elsewhere that's only $30k. Presumably they pay for hosting, facilities. Doesn't sound like it leaves a lot of pre-tax pay unless they're using primarily overseas workers in low-cost countries?
None of their locations seem to be that cheap, if you look at the remote workers. Not Silicon Valley expensive, but not working for peanuts either.
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#203We don't ; vc baby !!
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#205> We are in the process of sending out an email now announcing Developer Story to the larger community in the hopes that we can help some percentage of developers. If that email is rejected, we’ll unsubscribe you. If you’re unresponsive to emails we send, we’ll unsubscribe you. If you mark it as spam, we’ll unsubscribe you. How great it would be if every site would subscribe to such high standards. Bravo, SO.
Sorry, if this is off-topic, you hit a nerve.
The absolute antibehavior of what you descrcribe I've recently experienced with Air Asia.
A few month ago they started to spam me with a newsletter I never requested. Last time I flew them was in the beginning of 2015 and I never subscribed for their crap.
The unsubscribe link on the mail does not work and after a significant amount of digging I found a way to unsubscribe by sending mail to unsubscribe@fly.airasia.com.
Only that mail to this address is never delivered.
In essence there seems to be no way to unsubscribe from their list.
I mention that because it's infuriating that "reputable" companies think they can spam away with gusto without even the possibility to unsubscribe from their shit.
Here's a hint for you Air Asia: You are not reputable! You are on the same level as pushers of fake knock-off Viagra, purveyors of fake shlock Rolexes, and Nigerian scammers! And you will never, ever get an additional cent from me.
Scum!
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And a great explanation in the piece of how SO works to serve only quality ads. Good enough, in fact, that I'm whitelisting Stack Overflow from my adblocker. I don't do it often, I don't even do it for sites I like; the reality is that anyone using an automated ad network is at significant risk of serving malware, and I don't approve even if I'm protected. I don't visit Forbes at all anymore, ever, because they broke…
Just because an ad network is automated doesn't mean you can serve malware through ads. Just because an ad network uses manual bidding doesn't mean it's malware free.
Both true, but I think my point is clear?
Specifically, this isn't about manual bidding, it's about manual review, and I trust the SO people to keep out likely malware candidates about as much as I trust any site.
And yes, there are ad networks that haven't served Can't is a word I might reserve for text ads, but there are other automated networks that haven't at least.
But I can't imagine its confusing why I might prefer manual review (malware policy: "Oh god, we missed it, never again") to automated distribution (malware policy: "Thanks for letting us know, we'll take that one piece of malware down in the next day or so.")
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When I've usually clicked the report spam and unsubscribe button after reporting spam in gmail it usually immediately opens a tab with the unsubscribe URL. I've since stopped doing it since the last thing I want to do is open up some random page belonging to the person who spammed me.
That's strange. I thought the point of that button was to overcome the exact problem you just described.
Tried it again with a different message and they said they'd try to unsubscribe me this time instead of opening a link.
Did try again yesterday with a different spam message and had it open a tab though; Zapier was spamming me with some newsletter so I clicked "Report Spam and Unsubcribe" yesterday and it opened up this in a new tab: https://zapier.com/app/settings/email?payload=REMOVED
Not really sure how it determines that -- I'll probably avoid clicking it just out of precaution and just report spam going forward though.
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Why do they do that? Seems great for this use-case but terrible information to give bad actors.
What information does this reveal besides your email address, which they clearly already have?
Email lists with verified activity have a higher success rate and sell for more.
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#209> We are in the process of sending out an email now announcing Developer Story to the larger community in the hopes that we can help some percentage of developers. If that email is rejected, we’ll unsubscribe you. If you’re unresponsive to emails we send, we’ll unsubscribe you. If you mark it as spam, we’ll unsubscribe you. How great it would be if every site would subscribe to such high standards. Bravo, SO.
Sorry, if this is off-topic, you hit a nerve. The absolute antibehavior of what you descrcribe I've recently experienced with Air Asia. A few month ago they started to spam me with a newsletter I never requested. Last time I flew them was in the beginning of 2015 and I never subscribed for their crap. The unsubscribe link on the mail does not work and after a significant amount of digging I found a way to unsubscribe…
Despite never having Comcast nor living in an area Comcast serves, I constantly get email from them. To unsubscribe I must login to my (nonexistent) account.
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#210Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's strange. I thought the point of that button was to overcome the exact problem you just described.
Tried it again with a different message and they said they'd try to unsubscribe me this time instead of opening a link. Did try again yesterday with a different spam message and had it open a tab though; Zapier was spamming me with some newsletter so I clicked "Report Spam and Unsubcribe" yesterday and it opened up this in a new tab: https://zapier.com/app/settings/email?payload=REMOVED Not really sure how it determi…
Using a lot of the privacy and security measures suggested in https://www.privacytools.io/ I sometimes do a gmail search using 'is:unread in:all unsubscribe' and click on most of the links I can find.
In some cases, Gmail automatically detects the unsubscribe link. If you click Gmail's unsubscribe link, it may give you a pop-up or it may automatically write an email to unsubscribe@example.com. The pop-up usually leads to a form that you have to fill to 'update your newsletter preferences'.