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Show HN: Send messages to all users in a subreddit thread (github.com)

12 points by trevorLane ↗ HN
I have been using reddit to do user research for while. Basically this process involves finding threads where users are discussing topics related the the research I am doing. From there, I message users and ask if they are willing to give feedback on an idea. This app automates a portion of this work by gathering these users and sending the message to each of them. From there, I continue the conversation in reddit messages. This approach has been quite successful, I can normally find a few dozen users who are interested in the idea I'm researching.

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BugsJustFindMe
So a spam tool.
trevorLane
Although the intention isn't to spam people, someone could definitely use it for that purpose until they are blocked or their account is suspended.
BugsJustFindMe
> Although the intention isn't to spam people

Spam is unsolicited communication sent in bulk. That's the exact intent of your tool.

sentientslug
The example given in the repository readme is literally cold call sales spam garbage. Can you name a single non-malicious purpose for this tool?
reaperman
There was a lot of discussion around youtube-dl about how the same tool can be judged different ways, depending on the examples in the readme (which ended up being unit tests, rather than examples).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24872911

BugsJustFindMe
That has zero bearing on whether this right here is fundamentally and explicitly a tool for automating the bulk transmission of unsolicited messages, AKA spam, which this very clearly is, as directly stated by the author both here and also on the repo.
whodev
Oh great, another tool to enable spammers that target users cannot opt-out of.

Fantastic.