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by Greg Mueller, Jan 08, 2010 5:00pm PSTHere's a fresh chatty for you all to enjoy on this Friday night. We've had our ups and we've had our downs, but it's been a pretty good first week to start off the new year. It will no doubt be remembered as vividly and with the same fondness as all the other first-weeks-of-the-year past. That is, not much at all.
The weekend is almost upon us. May yours be as fun and exciting as an endless stream of sharp news, snappy headlines, and witty comments from Faylor, Alice, Garnett, Jeff, and the rest of the Shack.
In case you missed it, here's a taste of all the fun and excitement we had today:
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We're sending this initial email to let everyone know to update their email settings. We recently added a new tab on the settings page to allow you to do this.
We don't have immediate plans to start sending out emails, but we might send the occasional sweepstakes announcement or newsletter sometime soon. Of course you can unsubscribe from all of these if you so choose.
As always, feel free to Shack message me with any questions, comments, or suggestions.
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I'm not trolling, I'm honestly asking how much more shady stuff they have to pull before it's ok to be upset. The marketing weenies at gamefly have really hosed up a lot of stuff around here, and to me, it seems reasonable to be at a point where you're saying enough is enough. You're right that the opt-out process wasn't that bad, but it's still pretty irritating that you have to do it at all.
"hey - here's an unsolicited email to say that we're going to start sending you more unsolicited emails unless you go to this page and uncheck all 5 of the boxes that we helpfully pre-checked for you. We never said we would spam you before, and you certainly never asked for it, but we're gonna start anyway, unless you go do something." That's not a good way to go about it, and I think people may be overreacting, but the underlying sentiment is pretty valid.
If there was a pre-checked opt-in when we got our accounts, that would be fine. If there was a big inf'd post or article saying they are starting a newsletter and you should click here to get it, that would be fine. The problem is that this is a marginally bad decision by the marketing folks on top of a history of really shitty decisions. If they can't keep ugly obtrusive flash ads and viruses off their own website, then I really don't want them sending me ANY emails. Frankly, I'm goddamn ecstatic that I don't use the same email address I signed up with any more.
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