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  1. Mark NSFW content.
  2. No doxxing people.
  3. Must be a pic of the tweet or similar. No direct links to the tweet.
  4. No international politcs
  5. Be excellent to each other.
  6. Provide an archived link to the tweet (or similar) being shown if it's a major celebrity, figure or any politician. https://web.archive.org/save is an option. Archive.is is no longer recommended because they remove/alter content.
  7. If a tweet (or similar) makes a statement of fact, either mark it as "satire" in the body or provide the original source link backing up the statement

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[–] unmagical@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago

Until the email is strategically lengthened past the point of my client rendering the thing in full and I have to open it in a new window and scroll all the way to the bottom only to find that they intentionally left "Unsubscribe" as just plain text and not a link.

Or you are lucky enough to have a link, but it demands you login to make changes, but you checked out as a guest and don't have an account.

Or you deliberately unchecked "send me marketing emails" when you bought something and they automatically signed you up for not just their own emails, but those of all their subsidiaries.

Or they just don't have an unsubscribe option at all.

I'd rather just mark it as spam and cause a repeated ping on their reputation every time they send an email.

[–] credo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (4 children)

If you’re not in my whitelist, you don’t get to my inbox.

Simple.

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[–] dudesss@piefed.ca 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Blocking is sometimes better option. If its a unknown or sketchy link, its better to block than unsubscribe.

[–] Flower@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

It's a Black Friday tradition. By that date, everyone starts sending offers so that's a good time to unsubscribe from all of that.

[–] wowwoweowza@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oooohhh… clearly you have never donated to progressive causes… because deleting this shit FOREVER is not the only way to keep the inbox clean. Unsubscribing is a waste of time… they have lots and lots of telephone numbers.

And before you tell me I’m not a progressive anymore… I’m still donating… but it’s cash only for these pricks.

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ethical people wouldn't ignore unsubscriptions, or obfuscate how they contact you.

If they do, then you know you failed at recognizing unethical people (and you'll hopefully investigate more in the future), and that you should never donate again to that organization and to stop being a member.

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[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I spend a moment blocking their domain in postfix.

[–] dregan@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago
[–] nulluser@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

If it's something I know I subscribed to, I'll unsubscribe once, then immediately setup a filter to automatically mark anything new coming from that sender as spam.

If it's something I didn't subscribe to, I just skip straight to the filter.

[–] kazerniel@piefed.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I know multiple people like this, but it's such an alien mindset to me xD

I only ever keep stuff in my inbox that I'm not done dealing with, everything else gets archived in its appropriate category 🤓️

[–] Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Inbox zero feels so nice and clean.

[–] dubs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

I have a script to lookup the whois info for the sending IP address. Forward the message, with headers to them, saying "unsubscribe", then block that IP with a firewall.

[–] Diddlydee@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I want to know why your clicking of an unsubscribe button takes twice the time of the clicking of a presumably comparable delete button.

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 2 points 1 day ago

Gotta find the (tiny, light gray on white) unsubscribe link first. But the delete button is always easy to see and in the same place.

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Use email masking and block the mask.

[–] smeenz@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

More and more automated spam systems are getting wise to that and dropping any text after the +

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 1 points 1 day ago

There are other email masking services. Check out Firefox Relay or IronVest.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I am so used to the unsubscribe button not even doing anything that it is actually easier to simply add the sender to my block list.

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More important than this is to utilise labels/filters on your email provider. I only recently gave my email account a sorting out and now i have like 23 subtabs across 6 primary tabs

[–] enchanted@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Maximize gains for the short term only, and screw the long term. Of course!

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