Did anyone else get bulk-invited to several Slack teams?

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10 years ago

I got added to the Slack communties #testing [1] and EmberJS without signing up on purpose, and I know at least one other person who also got a #testing invite. There was some speculation that this was caused by Slackin [2]

[1] http://hashtagtesting.com/ [2] https://github.com/rauchg/slackin

Discussion in #testing:

Ted Han [8:07 PM] Yeah hi, i'm not sure how i got invited, or even what this slack is about

[8:07] Testing i presume?

[8:08] I'm a little curious what data source my email is being scraped from

Jia Qing Yap [8:12 PM] joined #testing. Also, @sonya joined.

Sonya Mann [8:40 PM] @knowtheory same, a random invite just showed up in my email inbox

Nihal Mirpuri [8:40 PM] joined #testing

Sonya Mann [8:40 PM] @beau same thing happened to me -- I also got an invite to EmberJS, which makes no sense

sam kreter [8:43 PM] joined #testing

Sonya Mann [8:43 PM] @timhordern why / how did you bulk invite a bunch of people?

new messages Ted Han [8:45 PM] sonya: yep i got the Emberjs Slack invitation as well as one for another slack called Dev4Slack

[8:46] Seems like the invitations are through the Slackin' form, not actually from Tim Hordern

[8:47] sonya: looks like we're both in the BotWiki slack

[8:47] i'm guessing that's where our email addies are being scraped from

Sonya Mann [8:48 PM] but... why?

Ted Han [8:48 PM] Beats me.

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