They should just call it "Gossip Channel". I don't see the point behind this, unless the comments and ratings were orchestrated to always beeee ... polite.
Secondly, I am so glad I went to high school in the 80's because this is going to make life a pain-in-the-butt for a lot of high school students. Isn't it nice that fellow developers who probably had a rough life with their interest in technology are helping to write an app designed to make it super efficient to do the same to others.
Most likely a cut-and-paste of what they believe the Yelp model to be. And probably without a realistic estimate of how much labor will go into policing it. If the public can currently get their jollies off of gaming existing review systems for goods and restaurants, they'll jump at the chance to do the same for individuals.
Really, the question should be: "how much personal harm will be caused by this before the money will run out?"
“If we have it for restaurants, why [don’t] we have it for people?” one Twitter user offered the withering reply, “[B]ecause restaurants [don’t] kill themselves??”
I hope that the creators and the investors will be dragged through court (and rightfully so), if God forbid something like that happens.
How is this even possibly legal? I know some folks who are trying to build a new service to revamp existing corporate personnel performance reviews and this is exactly the kind of thing that is proving to be difficult.
You're still vulnerable to:
'5 stars - I'm rating this 5 stars to make sure everyone sees it: This person is (a rapist|a psycho roommate|unstable|a sexual predator|a heroin addict||a paedophile). (Long personable sincere story explaining above).'
This is particularly worrisome for people with unique names. John Smith doesn't have to worry as much because he could claim "that's not me". But I'm pretty sure I'm the only person in the world with my name and that makes this less fair for me.
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Secondly, I am so glad I went to high school in the 80's because this is going to make life a pain-in-the-butt for a lot of high school students. Isn't it nice that fellow developers who probably had a rough life with their interest in technology are helping to write an app designed to make it super efficient to do the same to others.
Most likely a cut-and-paste of what they believe the Yelp model to be. And probably without a realistic estimate of how much labor will go into policing it. If the public can currently get their jollies off of gaming existing review systems for goods and restaurants, they'll jump at the chance to do the same for individuals.
Really, the question should be: "how much personal harm will be caused by this before the money will run out?"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_be_forgotten
So, guilty until you can prove yourself innocent then.
I hope that the creators and the investors will be dragged through court (and rightfully so), if God forbid something like that happens.
Seriously. How?!
http://www.hg.org/defamation.html
"If you haven’t registered for the site, and thus can’t contest those negative ratings, your profile only shows positive reviews."