Surely credit rating agencies will find a way to misuse this.
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.
If you haven't registered for the site, and thus can't contest those negative ratings, your profile only shows positive reviews.
Great!
because we love you enough to give you this gift.
I'm pretty sure they're gonna give me five stars!
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.
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.
You'll no doubt be happy to know that the blog is the first hit when you google 'bashful offering'
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.
Have you seen the newspaper comment sections that require a Facebook account to post?
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).
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.
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).
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.
If you haven't registered for the site...your profile only shows positive reviews
Free consulting advice: reverse the polarity on this policy.
16.1: So you'd like, wander around some confusing deserted island, poking at stuff until you found a friend?
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.)
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.
Another great bullying concept bursts the boundaries of the school classroom (or rather the school girls' toilet) and erupts into the real world.
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.
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.
But, but somebody was wrong on the internet.
Circulating on Twitter: one of the founders asking on FB how to disable comments to their company profile there.
26: Yeah, they seem to need a better sense of irony.
I thought Luciano Floridi argued something like 24. eg.
I haven't read his actual books though.