[CrendKing]

I don't understand the strategy from the election spammer here. They clearly want the recipient to vote/donate. But if someone spends time to type "STOP" instead of ignoring, he has clearly read the message and not interested in the solicitation. Then why spam this particular number? The more flood the more he hates you, the less he's gonna to anything positive to you. It is a extremely low quality "live number" for the campaign, and waste of money.

[justsomehnguy]

> They clearly want the recipient to vote/donate

Lol, no.

Just like SEO and the e/mail spam nobody actually cares about the result. The process itself, 'engagement' - is the target.

Just imagine, you are the spammer and you are presenting the numbers to whoever who ordered this:

"Hey, we sent 1000 SMS, got 900 STOP replies, that's good, right? That would cost you $1000 for the SMS and $100 for our time. "

And compare it with this:

"Hey, we sent 15043401 SMS, got 9000 replies, overall engagement is over 78% and we can continue for another week or two! BTW it's $15043401 for the SMS and $100000 for our time"

Which variant the spammer would prefer?

[zoklet-enjoyer]

Maybe it makes sense to whoever they outsourced the job to