Re:Peeple sites 'disappear' from web after backlash over app
by klodolph on Monday October 05, 2015 @01:18PM
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> Then how do you explain the success of Yelp, which is basically the same thing but for businesses?
Yelp is successful as a business, but I consider its impact on businesses to be negative, because Yelp has a perverse incentive to let businesses influence Yelp reviews. Naturally, businesses complain about Yelp, even though consumers like it. For the same reason, people would complain about a rating system for people.
> Or the school system, which is already designed around rating people?
This is perhaps the most toxic and least successful part of the modern education system.
Yelp is successful as a business, but I consider its impact on businesses to be negative, because Yelp has a perverse incentive to let businesses influence Yelp reviews. Naturally, businesses complain about Yelp, even though consumers like it. For the same reason, people would complain about a rating system for people.
> Or the school system, which is already designed around rating people?
This is perhaps the most toxic and least successful part of the modern education system.