Re: [Asrg] Adding a spam button to MUAs

Seth <sethb@panix.com> Thu, 17 December 2009 18:25 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Asrg] Adding a spam button to MUAs
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Nathaniel Borenstein <nsb@guppylake.com> wrote:
> 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

One button is the "OR" of the two buttons, so there's no less
information available.  Given enough data, it should be easy to get
pretty accurate statistics on how reliable _each_ user is, and the
unreliable ones can be mapped into the one-button treatment.

Seth