Lyft’s algorithm is trying to block people with names like ‘Dick’ and ‘Cummings’

Re:Lyft’s algorithm is trying to block people with names lik... by IgorPartola on Sunday January 12, 2020 @09:00AM (#22026288)

If your driver’s name was Hitler Did Nothing Wrong Nazis Rule, would you want to drive with them? I think name filtering like this is incredibly dumb and have never seen a good implementation of it. But “don’t be offended” is rarely the blanket answer people seem to think it is.

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Re:Lyft’s algorithm is trying to block people with names lik... by iddqd on Sunday January 12, 2020 @10:09AM (#22026575)

Don’t know much about Lyft in particular, but with the amount of reports and cancellations you get with a name like that you’d get booted of the platform pretty quickly, no?

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Re:Lyft’s algorithm is trying to block people with names lik... by manquer on Sunday January 12, 2020 @11:36AM (#22027178)

It is not the same for drivers though. Drivers have to use their real name as in their driving licence . I doubt that a registered legal name is going to be that kind of offensive.

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Re:Lyft’s algorithm is trying to block people with names lik... by thiagomgd on Monday January 13, 2020 @08:15PM (#22040781)

If that's the person's name, should they be excluded from those apps? Also: shouldn't they change their names in those extreme cases?

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Re:Lyft’s algorithm is trying to block people with names lik... by likeclockwork on Monday January 13, 2020 @12:36PM (#22036591)

I'd want to know if that was their name, so I could not get into their car.

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