Straight man here again: It's pretty funny that uneditable internet reviews of these folks' ideas are what is causing their problems.
As best as I can tell, the parody account has been suspended. By whom? Why? I feel like I missed out on something.
Twitter seems to give some deference to companies "reporting" accounts that go after them. A local weekly reporter's experience.
2: probably by Twitter, because Twitter has rules about that sort of thing.
Incidentally, Peeple looks like it might be a hoax to publicise a web video series. (snopes.com)
3: that journalist was very, very lucky not to become the target of an Internet rage outbreak himself.
3: Sounds like Youtube. There have been cases where a user puts up original content, it gets copied by another user who then files a complaint against the originator of the content, and Youtube shuts down the original in favor of the pirate.
5: Really? The journalist seems to have done nothing untoward or interpretable as untoward. My favorite part is that person trying to block the reporter complained that the reporter released records with her person phone number because those records had an office phone number but she forwarded it to her cell.
re: 6
A friend of mind had that happen to him, just recently. A small piece of music he'd put up that someone else sampled, and then filed against him.
Nothing formal, that I recall. Wrote an email, I think. He doesn't make a living from music, and was annoyed more than anything else.
It takes a special kind of arsehole, though, to steal something and then go after the original owner in that way.
Well, yes. It would produce a special kind of aggravation also.
This particular friend isn't the most ... proactive of people. I'd want to kill, certainly.
12 Or deliver a few sharp kicks in the nads at the very least.
13 In fact I'd do it now on his behalf if the offender were known to me and in my presence, or at least within, say, 50 miles, gratis.
12: I'd flip out. I've had people claim credit for my work in the past and it pisses me off still. To claim credit and then shut me down would make me incandescent with rage.
10.2 My dad's ex stole a bunch of old books that were his which he loved, took a photo of them for evidence that they existed, and then called the police on him claiming that they belonged to her and that he had stolen them from her because now they're gone. Police-mediated harrassment coupled with theft, basically.
6, et al
Speaking of pirating, Peeple is apparently a registered trademark in the US of a company which produces a camera and app that allows you to see who is at your front door from your phone. The Peeple women have registered in Canada, but if they tried to have the site in the US, they'd be sued for trademark infringement.
http://www.wired.com/2015/10/peeple-the-thing-versus-peeple-the-app/
Peeple profile of the charmer in 16 would be interesting.
Actually, the profiling and rating thing basically already exists in LinkedIn, but as with all platforms that run off of user-supplied data, there's not enough data generated in the course of normal use. So LinkedIn guesses which terms might be relevant for endorsement and nags upon login, thus degrading the quality and meaningfulness of endorsements. Possibly the value has already dropped near 0, I don't know.
Similarly, I believe that most of facebook's data has a very short useful half-life; clicking "I like the blue one" or "Feel the Bern" is not that meaningful, people will click nearly anything. I think Amazon, who tracks actual spending rather than what amounts to public recreational web activity, has a much more valuable data archive.
The term they use for this is "best-self activation," the idea being that if you are reminded of a time you were performing at your very best, it will motivate you into reaching high standards once again.
Reminds me of the phrase that occurs in Gaddis' novels, "the self who can do more".
Ha wrong thread. My self who could do more wouldn't've made that mistake.
20 I can't figure out what thread that was supposed to go in.
21: It's the second study in the post about meals and snacking.
wait is nosflow btock style already? strong work sir.