Re: [Asrg] Adding a spam button to MUAs

Nathaniel Borenstein <nsb@guppylake.com> Thu, 17 December 2009 17:34 UTC

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On Dec 17, 2009, at 11:27 AM, Ian Eiloart wrote:

> Twitter seems to think that users are smart enough to distinguish between "unwanted" and "spam". They give you a button for each. It's an important distinction that most people can make. 

Twitter isn't always right, and my intuition differs from yours on this one.  Fortunately it's something that could be resolved empirically.  I'd like to see such a study, because it wouldn't take very many users who *can't* properly make that distinction to render the two-button solution counterproductive.  I'd rather have one bit of meaningful data than two bits of muddled data.  -- Nathaniel