it's bullshit that all the things that make it easy for you to triage an incoming message by importance and urgency are also the things that make it possible for people to scam the shit out of you
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including social messages like "I'm in a great deal of distress!"
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wait this is just the whole thing around costly signals etc isn't it
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anyways I was just thinking how nice it would be if official gov or bank or whatever mail could put like a 1-10 on it so you knew how spooky it was but realized that already happened with "URGENT" and people promptly started slapping it over everything
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Replying to @selentelechia
10 what you want is efficient signaling
9:12 PM - 12 Mar 2020
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