Klout shutting down

Re:Klout shutting down by crabasa on Friday May 11, 2018 @05:40PM (#17050973)

Services that turn people into numbers have no future. Glad to see Klout go.

Hopefully Hackerrank and its ilk will follow.

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Re:Klout shutting down by recursive on Friday May 11, 2018 @07:50PM (#17051554)

And then arcades. And then track and field competitions.

Having numbers about people is not inherently good or bad.

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Re:Klout shutting down by sheeshkebab on Friday May 11, 2018 @05:48PM (#17051004)

Experian would strongly disagree with that... not that support this, but business of ranking people is high up.

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Re:Klout shutting down by xkcd-sucks on Friday May 11, 2018 @05:46PM (#17050992)

Just like happened to Experian, Cambridge Analytica, etc

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Re:Klout shutting down by organicmultiloc on Friday May 11, 2018 @05:47PM (#17051001)

You mean like google and facebook?

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