Re:Launch HN: Dinesafe (YC S18) – Crowdsourcing Food Poisoni...
by tptacek on Monday July 16, 2018 @04:57PM
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Each time I went to "iwaspoisoned.com", I was greeted by a story and usually a photo of someone claiming they'd been served an undercooked burger. Here's what I just got when I loaded the site again:
That looks as gray and dreadful as any McDonalds burger. The impression I get from "iwaspoisoned.com" is that the median user of the site is, shall we say, of the "steak well done" persuasion. That is fine, those people are fine (those steaks are not fine though), but they are hardly a credible source of information about foodborne illness, and I think it's probably irresponsible to present them directly alongside authoritative (and often unrelated!) reports from inspections agencies.
https://imgur.com/JCXLDUM
That looks as gray and dreadful as any McDonalds burger. The impression I get from "iwaspoisoned.com" is that the median user of the site is, shall we say, of the "steak well done" persuasion. That is fine, those people are fine (those steaks are not fine though), but they are hardly a credible source of information about foodborne illness, and I think it's probably irresponsible to present them directly alongside authoritative (and often unrelated!) reports from inspections agencies.