It actually saddens me that pressing the "Spam" button in Gmail has a material impact on the company that sent me the email. I use that button to mean "Get this out of my hair. Unsubscribe, bin it, set a filter to ignore them - whatever, I just don't want to see it any more!"
That Google then turns around and treats my signal as an indication of the level of trustworthiness of the whole company, and then uses this level for other users is actually irritating to me. I'm just using the user interface in the most convenient manner to me. Yes, I should go and unsubscribe - but that's laborious, and clicking "Spam" isn't.
That Google then turns around and treats my signal as an indication of the level of trustworthiness of the whole company, and then uses this level for other users is actually irritating to me. I'm just using the user interface in the most convenient manner to me. Yes, I should go and unsubscribe - but that's laborious, and clicking "Spam" isn't.