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Show HN: Send messages to all users in a subreddit thread
I have been using reddit to do user research for while. Basically this process involves finding threads where users are discussing topics related the the research I am doing. From there, I message users and ask if they are willing to give feedback on an idea. This app automates a portion of this work by gathering these users and sending the message to each of them. From there, I continue the conversation in reddit messages. This approach has been quite successful, I can normally find a few dozen users who are interested in the idea I'm researching.
- BugsJustFindMe 2y agoSo a spam tool.
- trevorLane 2y agoAlthough the intention isn't to spam people, someone could definitely use it for that purpose until they are blocked or their account is suspended.
- BugsJustFindMe 2y ago> Although the intention isn't to spam people Spam is unsolicited communication sent in bulk. That's the exact intent of your tool.
- sentientslug 2y agoThe example given in the repository readme is literally cold call sales spam garbage. Can you name a single non-malicious purpose for this tool?
- reaperman 2y agoThere was a lot of discussion around youtube-dl about how the same tool can be judged different ways, depending on the examples in the readme (which ended up being unit tests, rather than examples). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24872911 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24872911
- BugsJustFindMe 2y agoThat has zero bearing on whether this right here is fundamentally and explicitly a tool for automating the bulk transmission of unsolicited messages, AKA spam, which this very clearly is, as directly stated by the author both here and also on the repo.
- throawayonthe 2y agothat’s just spam
- whodev 2y agoOh great, another tool to enable spammers that target users cannot opt-out of. Fantastic.