Most bulk email is boring
This is really the same issue as the previous one.
Self-centered content is dull. It’s like getting cornered by that awful friend of a friend at a party. You know the guy.
“But enough about me. What do you think about me?”
It’s hard to ditch the guy at the party. It’s very, very easy not to read or open an email.
I get dozens of messages every day that are so boring and self-centered I can’t be bothered to unsubscribe. I just set up a rule to automatically throw them in the trash as they come in. Or I let them pile up in the spam filter until I feel like deleting 20 or 30 at a time without looking at them.
And I’m one of the nice ones. Many people will just mark you as a spammer for the crime of being boring.
And my guess is that those are the folks who are getting caught in Gmail limbo — people who failed one too many times to engage their readers, and got unfairly marked as spam.
Now that’s pathetic.
