Messages containing only the word "unsubscribe" should be filtered
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Launchpad itself |
Triaged
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Users, particularly of Ubuntu, often accidentally subscribe to a bug, not knowing what they're getting into because apport encourages them to do so. Once they realize that they don't want the e-mails, they barrage the subscription list with hundreds of "unsubscribe" messages without realizing that their messages will have no effect other than to annoy other subscribers. For whatever reason, people continue to send the e-mails even after multiple e-mails have gone out about the correct way to unsubscribe from a bug.
These barrages will often force users who actually care about legitimate messages to unsubscribe from the bug, thus damaging the quality of feedback and interaction between legitimate bug testers and developers.
A proposal exists (https:/
Changed in malone: | |
status: | New → Triaged |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
tags: | added: email |
This would be grand indeed. One issue is that a lot of these same people also typo unsubscribe so you'd really have to account for those for this to be useful. Also, sometimes people ask other things like "please remove". I think a bayesian filtering approach could go a long way here, picking up on the key words and the length of an email which determines someone wanting to be removed. These could then go a moderators list where the owner of the list either unsubscribes them or marks it as legitimate and the email continues on.