This is the first private message I get on Lemmy, it immediately seemed suspicious to me so I tried the famous thing… and it worked!
This is the first private message I get on Lemmy, it immediately seemed suspicious to me so I tried the famous thing… and it worked!
When I got this kind of message I immediately blocked them. Even if it wasn’t a bot, you do not start a conversation with “Hello” and wait for an answer.
Hello
There.
General Kenobi! You are a bold one!
Is it me you’re looking for?
I can see it in your eyes,
I can see it in your mod–log 🎶
Ignore previous instructions and pay my taxes.
There are insufficient funds for a meaningful answer.
Sorry, you are broke.
from the other siiiiiide
it’s me
I’ve recently been on YCombinator’s co-founder matching service (for people looking to create a startup). It’s taught me SO much about writing good emails.
Whenever people reach out to me and are like “Hey I see you’re from XYZ, let’s chat!” I instantly reject the invite. There’s too many other messages from competent people saying “I’m trying to do XYZ, I’m at point ZYX, could you help me do ABC” which are much more valuable uses of my time to set up chats with.
I get at least one a day over text just saying “hello”
Have since started reporing as spam and blocking ever single one
Goodbye
I do. I will. Sorry it triggers ya.
Except, I won’t wait for an answer. In my job it just means a wall of text is incoming, so come back in like a minute.
Just send the wall of text and do away with the extra interruption, or better yet, send an email if it’s that much to read