Better bot programming, please
Thursday, Aug 10, 2017 - Posted by Rich Miller * From Hari Sevugan at 270 Strategies, who is with the Daniel Biss campaign…
* The screen cap… ![]() To me, anyway, it’s not so much that they’re using a bot, but that their bot doesn’t appear to be properly programmed. He didn’t reply with a “Yes,” so why the follow-up text?
|
- interesting - Thursday, Aug 10, 17 @ 1:05 pm:
Is this really newsworthy? The bigger story is that Biss has raised no money and has nothing innovative going on in his campaign.
- JoeMaddon - Thursday, Aug 10, 17 @ 1:13 pm:
LOL - Biss has raised no money? As re you even paying attention? He raised over $1 million last quarter. He out raised all candidates (not named Pritzker) combined.
- Stark - Thursday, Aug 10, 17 @ 1:32 pm:
Hustle can be an effective app when the scripts are programmed correctly. This particular canvasser clearly hit the ‘interested’ script button instead of ‘not interested’.
- TopHatMonocle - Thursday, Aug 10, 17 @ 1:34 pm:
If you google the 97779 shortcode it goes back to something called MobileCommons and not Hustle. Looks like they don’t have bots, but they do have scripted responses. Seems to be a case of a staffer who either made a small mistake, doesn’t care, or both.
- Cubs in '16 - Thursday, Aug 10, 17 @ 1:44 pm:
Maybe Hustle interpreted “dis” as yes. /s
- DespondentBlueDog - Thursday, Aug 10, 17 @ 1:45 pm:
Reminds me of those Tinder profiles I always click on.
- Ghost - Thursday, Aug 10, 17 @ 4:36 pm:
Biss who?
I recognize JBs name but havent heard of the other one….
- Molly Maguire - Thursday, Aug 10, 17 @ 4:46 pm:
Dat not “Harris” either. Cash me ousside…
- Leslie K - Thursday, Aug 10, 17 @ 5:36 pm:
Just food for thought, but commercial texts are illegal unless a person opts in. I’m guessing this falls under an exception (e.g. political speech, since political surveys are exempted), but is spam-texting people (with a questionable algorithm) a good tactic? I’m assuming Sevugan didn’t opt-in, which very well might be an incorrect assumption.
- Anonymous - Thursday, Aug 10, 17 @ 9:23 pm:
@Leslie
Political texts, just like robocalls, are not “commercial” and therefore exempt from those restrictions.
- Leslie K - Friday, Aug 11, 17 @ 12:54 am:
@Anonymous 9:23
Right. As I suggested–exempt. But probably still not a base-building idea.