LJ_Reloaded
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I can't wait to watch the world burn. This is the lighter fluid.
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/chris-owen/peeple-app_b_8225322.html
There's an unwritten rule in creative brainstorming that 'no idea is a bad idea' - which anyone who has been in one will tell you is nonsense; a lot of ideas are very bad. One, which somehow leaked out of the room it was borne within is Peeple, an app which will allow you to rate and review people. Because, as we all know, humans are a commodity to rate in the same way as a hotel, a restaurant, a book, or a car.
Except we're not a commodity and, contrary to hotels, cars, books etc. we have feelings and emotions, and are essentially pretty fragile individuals who really don't need - as the Register has dubbed it - 'slander-as-a-service'. How anyone could think this even vaguely a clever idea, and not a malicious, odious platform for bullying and nastiness is beyond me.
Critically, you don't even have control over being added as a subject matter - if someone wants to review you, ("review you" - what a vile turn of phrase), they can add your profile using just your mobile number; you'll receive a text saying you've been added, but you won't have the ability to remove the listing. Yep, that's right, you have no control over being added, and you don't have control over removal.
The founders, Nicole McCullough and Julia Cordray, say that any nasty reviews are quarantined for a number of days and will allow the subject of them to ask why they're nasty - "hi, I've noticed you don't like me - why not?". Because that's the right prioritisation approach huh... post abuse, then put the onus on the recipient of it to establish why it should come down; (and because asking such a question is clearly a simple thing, and one I'm sure will make the antagonist think twice about their comments).
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/chris-owen/peeple-app_b_8225322.html
There's an unwritten rule in creative brainstorming that 'no idea is a bad idea' - which anyone who has been in one will tell you is nonsense; a lot of ideas are very bad. One, which somehow leaked out of the room it was borne within is Peeple, an app which will allow you to rate and review people. Because, as we all know, humans are a commodity to rate in the same way as a hotel, a restaurant, a book, or a car.
Except we're not a commodity and, contrary to hotels, cars, books etc. we have feelings and emotions, and are essentially pretty fragile individuals who really don't need - as the Register has dubbed it - 'slander-as-a-service'. How anyone could think this even vaguely a clever idea, and not a malicious, odious platform for bullying and nastiness is beyond me.
Critically, you don't even have control over being added as a subject matter - if someone wants to review you, ("review you" - what a vile turn of phrase), they can add your profile using just your mobile number; you'll receive a text saying you've been added, but you won't have the ability to remove the listing. Yep, that's right, you have no control over being added, and you don't have control over removal.
The founders, Nicole McCullough and Julia Cordray, say that any nasty reviews are quarantined for a number of days and will allow the subject of them to ask why they're nasty - "hi, I've noticed you don't like me - why not?". Because that's the right prioritisation approach huh... post abuse, then put the onus on the recipient of it to establish why it should come down; (and because asking such a question is clearly a simple thing, and one I'm sure will make the antagonist think twice about their comments).
