Comment by xingped
2 hours ago
That's horrific for people to even think of doing that and I'm sorry that's happened to you. You have my condolences. Too many people in tech are so utterly shameless, unfortunately.
2 hours ago
That's horrific for people to even think of doing that and I'm sorry that's happened to you. You have my condolences. Too many people in tech are so utterly shameless, unfortunately.
This has been happening for the last 4-5 months. If you post on a WWTBH thread.
It's been happening for years at this point.
"I saw your comment about GOLANG and I thought you might be interested in our TOKEN DROP FOR FREE SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS".
Spam from YC companies happens now and again, from other scraped content regularly. I've started making GDPR personal information requests in retaliation; they don't do anything useful but I figure tying up a "real human" for a few minutes at least makes their spam slightly more expensive for them.
> Too many people in tech are so utterly shameless
This applies to literally all of society, and has absolutely nothing to do with tech. Every society, everywhere. I mean, the guy sending that spam probably is pretty hard on their luck as well (and will probably eventually post a sad story about their lot and how they're just trying to hustle, etc). That doesn't excuse it, but it's turtles all the way down.
You're half right. Tech isn't what causes people to behave like this, but it does very much enable their behavior. Tech is what allows them to reach you and ruin your day with unprecedented efficiency.
Before internet access became as ubiquitous as it is today, the vast majority of these scammers were stuck wallowing in their misery in their own little corner of the world, far away from you, unable to do much more than maybe call your phone.
And before the rise of LLMs, they had to write their spam by hand instead of being able to spit out thousands of customized scam messages with zero effort.