Public toilets are vanishing and that's a civic catastrophe

Re:Public toilets are vanishing and that's a civic catastrophe by JadeNB on Saturday July 20, 2024 @07:05PM (#41020865)

> Everyone knows that people whose usage of the Rent-a-Potty is, ahem, strongly correlated with the state transition to an orange or red dot face price hikes, or possibly even expulsion from the app as a whole, so there's good reason to leave it at least as good as you found it.

This seems very susceptible to abuse. You (not you personally, but someone malicious) go into the restroom, mark it in a poor state, do whatever awful thing people do to get restrooms in the state in which they're so often found, and leave. Now it's the last person, who left it in a perfectly good state, who gets the blame.

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Re:Public toilets are vanishing and that's a civic catastrophe by twelve40 on Saturday July 20, 2024 @07:19PM (#41020956)

you could have customer profile rating like uber does, manual or algorithmic ones (based on what happened after you went). Then, if you get framed by a weirdo like that once or twice, it will be compensated for by the majority of your good behavior.

this is so dumb lol likely will just continue with starbucks and gas stations

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Re:Public toilets are vanishing and that's a civic catastrophe by hiAndrewQuinn on Sunday July 21, 2024 @01:36AM (#41022671)

The kind of person who would do that once would probably be the kind of person who would do that many times, thinking it's a clever way to bypass the system. However, being the operation who marks every toilet they see as red 100% of the time is just as if not more suspicious as the person who other people mark red after the fact 100% of the time.

If we really want to take it up a notch, we have ways to do so. Deviancy, countermeasure, arms race all over again - but few such arms races are actually worth the hassle.

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