This is interesting. I find the idea that people want a grade or rating on their skills intensely fascinating. Actually I find people and data science intensely fascinating, so that probably contributed as well.
However my knee-jerk reaction was more of revulsion. "Who are you to apply any sort of label to my abilities based on a presence!" is probably close to my first thought. That and I totally don't contribute to any of the listed hangouts so I knew I'd "suck" immediately.
Perhaps include more "hangouts"? Project Euler for example.
Hello, Ginny here, I'm the person behind Geek Grade. I'm glad to hear both of you found it interesting/neat, but it was also good to hear your concerns. I agree on TheyCalledHimBo's comment about presence and the need for more hangouts. We started with GitHub as the first site to help evaluate and we are close to releasing our next one here in the next few months with plans to add many more on over time. We don't base anyone's grades upon Twitter or LinkedIn, they are just included for convenience for joining and logging in, but there really isn't activities we can track on those sites that will attest to a person's technical skills.
Edoceo, with regards to the "looking for work" field on the profile, we are currently pulling that from people's GitHub profiles with the intent in the future of finding ways to help developers out who are looking for new work. That being said I understand your concern, we hate recruiter spam, so we will be very careful in how we approach the utilization of this data.
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[ 4.0 ms ] story [ 14.6 ms ] threadI don't like that it opts me into the "looking for work" - seems like I'll get more recruiter spam.
However my knee-jerk reaction was more of revulsion. "Who are you to apply any sort of label to my abilities based on a presence!" is probably close to my first thought. That and I totally don't contribute to any of the listed hangouts so I knew I'd "suck" immediately.
Perhaps include more "hangouts"? Project Euler for example.
Edoceo, with regards to the "looking for work" field on the profile, we are currently pulling that from people's GitHub profiles with the intent in the future of finding ways to help developers out who are looking for new work. That being said I understand your concern, we hate recruiter spam, so we will be very careful in how we approach the utilization of this data.
Thanks for the feedback!