Uber's community management isn't doing them any favors

Re:Uber's community management isn't doing them any favors by throwaway45779 on Thursday January 02, 2014 @08:08PM (#7003617)

Last time I checked, Uber wasn't an autonomous, driverless automobile service.

Given that fact, I really don't understand how the responsibility of pedestrian fatalities resides with anyone except the person who assumes direct control of the car. When you drive the car, you, and you alone are responsible for anyone you might kill.

What a stupid headline. Yellow journalism. Mud slinging. and for what? To parade a dead child as a trophy, and a symbol for the car service you choose?

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Re:Uber's community management isn't doing them any favors by evanhamilton on Thursday January 02, 2014 @08:14PM (#7003641)

Thanks for reading.

I explicitly state in the article that I feel no legal responsibility rests with them. I state that in the first few paragraphs.

What I am trying to make clear is that treating a tragedy like a legal technicality is not a way to build community. People are disgusted by their reaction.

For the record, I don't use any of the car services...this is not meant to promote Lyft or degrade Uber in any way, just to advise companies to invest in community. I would have hoped my numerous clear messages that I do not harbor anything against Uber would have made that clear.

I agree that my headline was designed to be provocative (though it is addressed in my very first sentence) and perhaps a bad choice on my part.

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Re:Uber's community management isn't doing them any favors by theg2 on Thursday January 02, 2014 @08:16PM (#7003646)

And latching onto a tragedy to complain about a company and community as a "community manager" yourself is in poor taste.

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