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by saghm 1777 days ago
I've somehow gotten on mailing lists from candidates and politicians from both major parties over the past several years, and many of them did not seem to respect when I try to unsubscribe, which leads to me marking them as spam. Assuming that I'm not the only one suffering from not respecting my wishes to unsubscribe from lists I never signed up for, I would have to imagine that with enough frustrated recipients making the messages as spam, the algorithm infers that all of the messages from the list are spam. This wouldn't even require the algorithm to even recognize that the messages are political, let alone infer the ideology; I did the same thing with emails trying to sell me sunglasses.