[Tagbert]

I’ve known people who use the spam button for any email they do’t want right now. They say “it’s easier” than hitting the “unsbuscribe” link or they say “if I hit unsubscribe they’ll just send me more email”. It’s hard to maintain a rational filtering system under those circumstances.

[i80and]

I've seen faked brand emails hit my Gmail inbox with (presumably malicious) unsubscribe links, and I've definitely seen sites "forget" that I've unsubscribed.

It's a bit of a tragedy of the commons, but I think the state of email is such that simply reporting unwanted email as spam is a rational choice

[JohnFen]

> “if I hit unsubscribe they’ll just send me more email”

This is likely true if the email is from a spammer.