Re: Let Us Rate Negatively

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Surely credit rating agencies will find a way to misuse this.


Posted by: SP | Link to this comment | 09-30-15 12:28 PM
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Wow, the photo of the people who made it alone made me think "those look like they might be really bad people". I wonder how long it takes before people start reviewing them based on what they think about the site, and the whole thing disappears.


Posted by: MHPH | Link to this comment | 09-30-15 12:33 PM
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If you haven't registered for the site, and thus can't contest those negative ratings, your profile only shows positive reviews.

Great!


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 09-30-15 12:37 PM
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because we love you enough to give you this gift.

I'm pretty sure they're gonna give me five stars!


Posted by: Megan | Link to this comment | 09-30-15 12:44 PM
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We are bold innovators and sending big waves into motion and we will not apologize for that because we love you enough to give you this gift.

Countdown to Gawker's teenaged bitchery, NYMag's OMGwhatifsomeonedoesn'tlikemeyougogirlcheckyourprivilegeTaylorSwiftreference, the Atlantic's maudlin woolgathering, some rubbish from the New Republic and finally the Times' Style section putting the world to sleep, sometime in December.


Posted by: Flippanter | Link to this comment | 09-30-15 12:46 PM
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Maybe read fewer magazines, brah.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 09-30-15 12:47 PM
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4 made me laugh.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 09-30-15 12:50 PM
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Innovators are often put down because people are scared and they don't understand. We are bold innovators and sending big waves into motion and we will not apologize for that because we love you enough to give you this gift bashful offering.


Posted by: Roberto Tigre | Link to this comment | 09-30-15 1:26 PM
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You'll no doubt be happy to know that the blog is the first hit when you google 'bashful offering'


Posted by: Barry Freed | Link to this comment | 09-30-15 1:31 PM
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Given you have post under your real name (from Facebook) my hope is that real harassers and such won't use it. My guess is it will become all "5 star" ratings because who wants to publicly diss your neighbors, friends, etc.? Diss the politicians, sure (Jeb? Donald?). The movie stars? (That Anne Hathaway...). I just don't see it for real-life friends, even real-life exes.

It dies within a year.

I guess I'm being naive here, right?, o cynical unfoggeditariat.


Posted by: DaveLMA | Link to this comment | 09-30-15 1:56 PM
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Have you seen the newspaper comment sections that require a Facebook account to post?


Posted by: Minivet | Link to this comment | 09-30-15 1:58 PM
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Or Facebook itself, for that matter.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 09-30-15 2:25 PM
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I've seen articles about at least two sites like this specifically for women to rate boyfriends. (One, Lulu is mentioned in the article as an illustration of how this idea cannot work and will inevitably just be another social networking site).


Posted by: Cryptic ned | Link to this comment | 09-30-15 2:35 PM
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Finally, our first steps toward creating the society imagined in a shitty science fiction novel celebrating the dickish acts of a technolibertarian main character who works at Disney. I can hardly wait to experience our pending utopia.


Posted by: F | Link to this comment | 09-30-15 2:46 PM
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It will fail.


Posted by: Lemmy caution | Link to this comment | 09-30-15 3:54 PM
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This basic idea has come up repeatedly in the last 10 years (I remember joking about a "Frenemyster" when Friendster was the only popular social site).

Secret

Honesty Box

There was also a dating site in NYC that would let you provide public reviews of your dates. I had a friend whose job it was to write fake date reviews for the main page of the site, because the real ones weren't interesting enough to drive traffic.


Posted by: Criminally Bulgur | Link to this comment | 09-30-15 4:24 PM
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If you haven't registered for the site...your profile only shows positive reviews

Free consulting advice: reverse the polarity on this policy.


Posted by: Beloved former commenter | Link to this comment | 09-30-15 5:41 PM
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16.1: So you'd like, wander around some confusing deserted island, poking at stuff until you found a friend?


Posted by: Natilo Paennim | Link to this comment | 09-30-15 5:46 PM
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17: Hi.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 09-30-15 6:07 PM
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We are bold innovators and sending big waves into motion and we will not apologize for that because we love you enough to give you this gift.

But why even raise the idea of apologizing, when you're launching your big and bold innovation? Oh right, because these two visionaries (yawn) come from Canada.

(Okay, Tigre: you win.)


Posted by: Just Plain Jane | Link to this comment | 09-30-15 7:27 PM
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because we love you enough to give you this gift.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABrSYqiqvzc

I know, I know too easy. Seriously, though, they sound like they're already planning their retreat to Galt Gulch.


Posted by: simulated annealing | Link to this comment | 09-30-15 9:51 PM
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Another great bullying concept bursts the boundaries of the school classroom (or rather the school girls' toilet) and erupts into the real world.


Posted by: ajay | Link to this comment | 10- 1-15 3:32 AM
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Yeah I am a techno optimist hyper bunny by uf standards but even I think this is dumb in a kind of banal evil way.


Posted by: conflated | Link to this comment | 10- 1-15 5:36 AM
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I'm sure I wouldn't like this service, but I view it as a sign of the times at worst rather than exceptionally heinous. On Facebook I saw a friend of a friend saying that he expected this app to be sued, because people own their own likeness and identity, and going on from there. I really wanted to post a dissection of everything wrong with that (most parts of it are correct in some sense, but...), and probably would have if I had been on my computer at the time, but I got distracted and wandered off.


Posted by: Cyrus | Link to this comment | 10- 1-15 6:34 AM
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But, but somebody was wrong on the internet.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 10- 1-15 6:40 AM
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Circulating on Twitter: one of the founders asking on FB how to disable comments to their company profile there.


Posted by: Minivet | Link to this comment | 10- 1-15 7:46 AM
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26: Yeah, they seem to need a better sense of irony.


Posted by: Dave W. | Link to this comment | 10- 1-15 1:09 PM
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I thought Luciano Floridi argued something like 24. eg.

I haven't read his actual books though.


Posted by: conflated | Link to this comment | 10- 1-15 3:41 PM
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