Democrats have, again, learned nothing

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Somebody figure out how to make “fuck off” stop the fundraising texts.

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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)

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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.

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idealistic smidealistic- I was just doing everything I could to try to keep trump from getting elected. I was suffering from no illusions.

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That’s amazingly bad management for such a campaign, wow

The dispensary I worked at handled it automatically, the only human input needed was drafting the actual texts

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it was a black/lgbt group in michigan campaigning for harris

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Uhm.

There absolutely are bots that respond to key words.

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

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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

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That really isn’t how that is supposed to work… I’m surprised and shocked it is this way for campaigns.

In all of my experience as an engineer, all SMS gateway apps will automatically remove the number when you text stop.

The reason is because it’s rife for abuse should you let the organization handling the messaging handle stop themselves.

IE, muting the conversation or making continuous messages to it will cause the sms gateway number’s reputation to fall which can affect their business

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Report the number as Spam

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You could always send dick pics. I’m sure if you don’t have one or don’t want to send your own, there’s plenty of people willing to send ‘em to you.

Ask pretty much any woman, they’ve probably had a few they don’t want.

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