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Very clever idea. However, it sounds much more beneficial to the person sending the email than to those who are receiving it. It will be interesting to see if it will collapse for this reason, or if some unexpected mechanic of humanity will keep it afloat.
Pretty cool... are you planning to switch from Mailchimp, though? It lists $240/month as the fee for 25K-50K subscribers. I'm curious about the business model behind something like this.
"Dear Everyone at the Giant Listserv, Boy, do I love Snickers! They are my favorite snack, I eat them all the time. Their crunchy texture and silky smooth chocolate satisfies my cravings like nothing else. Love, IEatSnickers PS: eat snickers"
Tried to enter an email address with a '+' sign in it: "Email address is invalid". No it's not.
Around 20% of the web still tells me my dan@dangrossman.info e-mail address is invalid. .info domains have been around for 11 years now, and I can't work around these sites by removing a character.
You cannot be penalized in any way for sending email from a .info domain, so why don't so many websites accept them still?
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Around 20% of the web still tells me my dan@dangrossman.info e-mail address is invalid. .info domains have been around for 11 years now, and I can't work around these sites by removing a character.
I have heard personally from many Abuse email admins that .info domains are no longer a threat anymore. You cannot be penalized in any way for sending email from a .info domain, so why don't so many websites accept them still?
validationexpression = "^([a-zA-Z0-9_\\-\\.]+)@[a-z0-9-]+(\\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(\\.[a-z]{2,3})$";
I run into it all over the place. I can't redeem reward points on my Visa card because the redemption 'shopping cart' requires an e-mail to notify you when the rewards ship, and says mine isn't valid. I was blocked signing up for a checking account online because of my "invalid" e-mail, but opened the same account at a branch with the same e-mail address, where they now e-mail my statements.
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apologies if this is a dumb question, but what does 'hellbanned' mean? i understand folks' concern about dubious intentions, but if it's any consolation, this is merely a class project from Clay Shirky's Designing Conversational Spaces class at NYU.
Hellbanned means the poster sees his own comments as normal, but no one else can see them. Someone who is hellbanned typically does not know they are banned until someone tells them (or they eventually get suspicious of no one commenting on their comments or up/downvoting). Frankly I find the idea of hellbanning childish, but it has a long history on the internet.
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apologies if this is a dumb question, but what does 'hellbanned' mean? i understand folks' concern about dubious intentions, but if it's any consolation, this is merely a class project from Clay Shirky's Designing Conversational Spaces class at NYU.
That's called "shadowban" in my neck of the woods.
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Hellbanned means the poster sees his own comments as normal, but no one else can see them. Someone who is hellbanned typically does not know they are banned until someone tells them (or they eventually get suspicious of no one commenting on their comments or up/downvoting). Frankly I find the idea of hellbanning childish, but it has a long history on the internet.
You mean for people like Losethos?
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You mean for people like Losethos?
I'm not familiar with Losethos...mind explaining? A particularly egregious user?
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apologies if this is a dumb question, but what does 'hellbanned' mean? i understand folks' concern about dubious intentions, but if it's any consolation, this is merely a class project from Clay Shirky's Designing Conversational Spaces class at NYU.
Hellbanned means the poster sees his own comments as normal, but no one else can see them. Someone who is hellbanned typically does not know they are banned until someone tells them (or they eventually get suspicious of no one commenting on their comments or up/downvoting). Frankly I find the idea of hellbanning childish, but it has a long history on the internet.
That's not too surprising, since the name (though possibly not the practice?) originated at SomethingAwful, and SA bans are pretty deliberately intended to be a mixture of serious and prankish, with a bit of arbitrariness thrown in.