Re:Peeple sites 'disappear' from web after backlash over app
by TazeTSchnitzel on Monday October 05, 2015 @12:36PM
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> Then how do you explain the success of Yelp, which is basically the same thing but for businesses?
Businesses aren't people. You can't bully a business into suicide, for example.
> Or the school system, which is already designed around rating people?
On academic merits. And sure, there's social rating, but it's not a public Internet page saying "untrustworthy liar" that anyone can find.
> Or safeorscam, which was the same thing but for drug dealers?
See businesses.
> Or LinkedIn testimonials?
Perhaps a fair comparison, but that's not evaluating objective worth or something, it's evaluating employability and is as cordial as business tends to be.
Businesses aren't people. You can't bully a business into suicide, for example.
> Or the school system, which is already designed around rating people?
On academic merits. And sure, there's social rating, but it's not a public Internet page saying "untrustworthy liar" that anyone can find.
> Or safeorscam, which was the same thing but for drug dealers?
See businesses.
> Or LinkedIn testimonials?
Perhaps a fair comparison, but that's not evaluating objective worth or something, it's evaluating employability and is as cordial as business tends to be.