Democrats have, again, learned nothing

  • Ben Hur Horse Race@lemm.ee
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    16 hours ago

    ive volunteered for texting campaigns. when you text STOP you believe it’s triggering some program and doing it automatically, but its not. the volunteer sees your response then clicks “mute” or “remove”, it depends on the campaign and the response.

    if you type “fuck off”, they will mute the conversation and you won’t get any more messages (until next campaign)

    • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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      7 hours ago

      Uhm.

      There absolutely are bots that respond to key words.

      But sometimes they just flag you as a live phone number.

      • Ben Hur Horse Race@lemm.ee
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        1 hour ago

        and you have seen this or worked with them? I have, and on our system it was 100% manual, no bots.

        Im not saying it doesnt exist, but have you seen this yourself or are you presuming it

        • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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          16 minutes ago

          Yes. I’ve evaluated some of the bots for work, we didn’t use them, but that was more because it wasn’t quite what we wanted. (validating employees are at assigned- but frequently distributed- locations and responding to calls/messages.)

          you’re acting like this is shocking. It’s not. This is pretty oldschool, actually. Like the ability to bot out actions based on keywords in replies predates smartphones.

    • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.world
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      15 hours ago

      Yeah but I want to tell the person three or four levels up to fuck off, not some idealistic person who thinks these sort of things aren’t just an annoyance.