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EugeneJ
Feb 5, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...them-to-or-not/

quote:

You can already rate restaurants, hotels, movies, college classes, government agencies and bowel movements online.

So the most surprising thing about Peeple — basically Yelp, but for humans — may be the fact that no one has yet had the gall to launch something like it.

When the app does launch, probably in late November, you will be able to assign reviews and one- to five-star ratings to everyone you know: your exes, your co-workers, the old guy who lives next door. You can’t opt out — once someone puts your name in the Peeple system, it’s there unless you violate the site’s terms of service. And you can’t delete bad or biased reviews — that would defeat the whole purpose.

Imagine every interaction you’ve ever had suddenly open to the scrutiny of the Internet public.

“People do so much research when they buy a car or make those kinds of decisions,” said Julia Cordray, one of the app’s founders. “Why not do the same kind of research on other aspects of your life?”

I wonder if this will be like regular Yelp and they'll put fake reviews saying "HAS A SMALL DICK - 0 STARS" and allow you to pay to remove them.

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Harald
Jul 10, 2009

by Fluffdaddy
if I had the opportunity to rate this thread

GAYS FOR DAYS
Dec 22, 2005

by exmarx
Yeah, this couldn't possibly be a bad idea.

The Puppet Master
Apr 9, 2005

Would you fuck me? I'd fuck me. I'd fuck me hard.



The Puppet Master
Apr 9, 2005

Would you fuck me? I'd fuck me. I'd fuck me hard.



this is a great idea to get sued

the black husserl
Feb 25, 2005

Yelp isn't doing this moron it's some stupid start up and its going to crash and burn

symbolic
Nov 2, 2014

wow gently caress the future

the black husserl
Feb 25, 2005

facebook WILL do something like this eventually though but they will have an amazing PR squad and everyone will halfheartedly embrace the idea. it's kind of what they already do.

Bacontotem
May 27, 2010



Hitler will be 3.5-4 stars

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

Playing games, watching movies, owning goons. 'sup
Pillbug
Bagsie Josh Duggar, Bristol Palin, and Joe Biden's dead son.

TOOT BOOT
May 25, 2010

Bacontotem posted:

Hitler will be 3.5-4 stars

that low? hosed up

Bacontotem
May 27, 2010



TOOT BOOT posted:

that low? hosed up

1 stars weight pretty heavily on the scale.

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

Playing games, watching movies, owning goons. 'sup
Pillbug
TOOT BOOT - Patient zero of AIDs after he hosed a gay monkey. 3 Stars


And the above stays on their site FOREVER.

treasure bear
Dec 10, 2012

MeowMeowBeenz

EngineerSean
Feb 9, 2004

by zen death robot
aautomatic one stars for all white males, i just don't like them

tetsuo
May 12, 2001

I am a shaman, magician

quote:

If you haven’t registered for the site, and thus can’t contest those negative ratings, your profile only shows positive reviews.
So isn't the best strategy to not register and hope that everyone else registers and at least a few people write a positive review of you, since that's all that will show?

Then everyone is sitting around not registering because they're all counting on everyone else to register. Then the site goes bankrupt and the founder faceplants into a volcano. win win.

tetsuo fucked around with this message at 02:14 on Oct 2, 2015

huskarl_marx
Oct 13, 2013

by zen death robot
you know the saying


fives have lives
fours have chores
threes have fleas
twos have blues
and ones dont get a rhyme because they're garbage

ghlbtsk
Apr 19, 2005

these bath mats
are
GORGEOUS
I am an OK person. Not great, not terrible. Pretty average.

Kumo
Jul 31, 2004

That's stupid, it subjects Yelp to civil liability under defamation statutes as to the publication requirement.

symbolic
Nov 2, 2014

Kumo posted:

That's stupid, it subjects Yelp to civil liability under defamation statutes as to the publication requirement.
they're probably going to implement some bullshit where you can only rate registered Yelp users who have agreed to this somewhere in the Terms and Conditions

guidoanselmi
Feb 6, 2008

I thought my ideas were so clear. I wanted to make an honest post. No lies whatsoever.

symbolic posted:

wow gently caress the future

Ignatius M. Meen
May 26, 2011

Hello yes I heard there was a lovely trainwreck here and...

Washington Post posted:

You can’t opt out — once someone puts your name in the Peeple system, it’s there unless you violate the site’s terms of service.

so in order to get my name and any bad reviews removed all I have to do is register and break the rules? it probably doesn't apply to future reviews though because the people who came up with this poo poo are brainless fuckwads. I have no idea how they're going to guarantee anyone uses their real name either, it's not hard to make a Facebook account that does not actually identify you. hopefully this dies when one of the founders/investors gets targeted for defamation and not when somebody who doesn't even know this exists gets hurt through this 'service'.

EugeneJ
Feb 5, 2012

by FactsAreUseless

Ignatius M. Meen posted:

I have no idea how they're going to guarantee anyone uses their real name either, it's not hard to make a Facebook account that does not actually identify you.

They'll probably just harvest everyone's name from a site like Radaris

20matar
Jul 9, 2013

70fugir
Wasn't there something like that where women rated men? Called Lulu.

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Ignatius M. Meen posted:

so in order to get my name and any bad reviews removed all I have to do is register and break the rules? it probably doesn't apply to future reviews though because the people who came up with this poo poo are brainless fuckwads. I have no idea how they're going to guarantee anyone uses their real name either, it's not hard to make a Facebook account that does not actually identify you. hopefully this dies when one of the founders/investors gets targeted for defamation and not when somebody who doesn't even know this exists gets hurt through this 'service'.

I'm sure Yelp will accept money from you to remove the bad reviews.

It's what they do for their business reviews.

Haverchuck
May 6, 2005

the coolest
the

Hobohemian
Sep 30, 2005

by XyloJW
Now you can rate the restaurant you went to on your date and that dumb bitch who ordered the most expensive thing on the menu and didn't put out at the same time. That's called synergy.

Windows 98
Nov 13, 2005

HTTP 400: Bad post
Too lazy to find a clip of the Meow Meow Beanz episode of Community, but this is literally what it is about. The obvious fall out was done well in the episode at least.

I'm a 5 and I only hang out with other 5s

Ignatius M. Meen
May 26, 2011

Hello yes I heard there was a lovely trainwreck here and...

etalian posted:

I'm sure Yelp will accept money from you to remove the bad reviews.

It's what they do for their business reviews.

why don't the businesses just sue them? assuming they are a big enough company to afford the lawyers anyway

tetsuo
May 12, 2001

I am a shaman, magician

Ignatius M. Meen posted:

so in order to get my name and any bad reviews removed all I have to do is register and break the rules?
No, the article addresses this.

Negative reviews only show on your profile once you register. Just never register and only positive reviews show.

Lesson: never register.

Shumagorath
Jun 6, 2001

tetsuo posted:

No, the article addresses this.

Negative reviews only show on your profile once you register. Just never register and only positive reviews show.

Lesson: never register.
easy enough to get around this by wording a positive review with a lot of sarcasm / back-handedness and lol just lol if they are going to run any real text processing to figure that out

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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fojar38

5 stars

"never have i had my dick sucked so frequently and so vigorously"

Pivotal Lever
Sep 9, 2003

Murder All Technocrats

extra stout
Feb 24, 2005

ISILDUR's ERR
could anyone make it so the internet continues to reveal massive cover ups, wars, schemes, and unite and educate all minorities giving them power and a voice

but make it stop being used to literally and entirely ruin the fabric of society and the personalities of the great majority of people who live in modern capitalist countries?





please?

down n out
Sep 16, 2008

Nap Ghost
John Smith is all like... :smug:

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Hobohemian posted:

Now you can rate the restaurant you went to on your date and that dumb bitch who ordered the most expensive thing on the menu and didn't put out at the same time. That's called synergy.

1/5 for date, paid for expensive dinner but did not get home run

Ignatius M. Meen
May 26, 2011

Hello yes I heard there was a lovely trainwreck here and...

tetsuo posted:

No, the article addresses this.

Negative reviews only show on your profile once you register. Just never register and only positive reviews show.

Lesson: never register.

Ah, didn't read far enough. So only the people who are as shortsighted as the founders are at risk, as long as there is strict policing on ensuring users do not do fun things like write positive reviews in such a way as to defame someone's character anyway.

this future blows i want a different one

tetsuo
May 12, 2001

I am a shaman, magician

Shumagorath posted:

easy enough to get around this by wording a positive review with a lot of sarcasm / back-handedness and lol just lol if they are going to run any real text processing to figure that out
Maybe. That would be a risk. They could go as far as to just show the numeric scores or 4.5/5 rating with details like comments left out to avoid that.

tetsuo fucked around with this message at 03:05 on Oct 2, 2015

Trip Larsen
Oct 4, 2006

My great-grandfather started Larsen Pork Products with little more than three pigs and a killing hammer. Today, I'm proud to say, we kill more pigs than pig hepatitis.
*Dennis Reynolds voice* I'M A FIVE STAR MAN!!!

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etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Cherry 2000 predicted the future of millenial dating:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urS8GmwmeWQ

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