Ditto here. If I’d seen it in my own inbox I’d be sending some choice words their way
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DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I got the email three days ago here in America, I didn’t look at it at the time. I dunno if Gmail can edit an email after I’ve received it, I suppose they can. Here’s how it rendered just now when I opened it. I’m not defending anything, I just wanted to show what I found::
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
VitoRobles@lemmy.today 1 week ago
Don’t let that stop you.
This is messed up, as a contributor to their Patreon to preserve games, I wrote some pretty harsh words.
VitoRobles@lemmy.today 1 week ago
In not linking reddit, which has way more details about how it went about.
theverge.com/…/gog-apologizes-email-nazi-symbols-…
In email marketing, you typically send emails in batches. Sometimes for A/B testing, other times to avoid spam catchers/overloading the system. Or sometimes for geo location purposes (like everyone gets the email at 8am, so it batches it to time zone)
The GoG reps said they sent it to a small batch and after the call out, stop the email sends and fixed it.