Peeple - Useful new app to help cyberbullies harrass others.

If someone does a GamerGate to this idiot right now, I reckon the issue would go away pretty quickly.

 

I certainly don't want that to happen. What those people do is sick, twisted, hateful misogyny, and they need called to the carpet for it as often as possible. I wouldn't wish it upon my worst enemy.

 

I have to agree, when I first heard about this I half suspected it was a Brooker inspired trailer for a new episode...

 

But "The needs of the many...."

 

How about this: Put down the phone and go knock on their door and introduce yourself...

 

That is only to add someone to the database who has not been reviewed before. If someone else has already made a profile for that person, you can go ahead and post reviews of him or her whether you know the number or not.

If you haven't registered, the site will only show positive reviews of 3 to 5 stars, but I suspect if most people don't register, visitors will quickly figure out that 3 stars actually means 1 star, since it is the lowest rating you can give. Also, what's to stop a person from giving a positive number of stars but posting nasty things in the comments?

Although I don't recall which article, I think I read that giving other people negative reviews will also slightly lower your own rating, so I guess at least there's that, if true.

 

I'm wondering if there's a way for people to opt out, and make sure that no one can post a profile. I'm betting there isn't though.

 

At the moment, they're saying no one can opt out of it in any way.

 

Peeple is a wonderful idea I wholeheartedly support.

 

^ So you're "up with Peeple", then?

 

"Well all the people on it are nice, but the app keeps refering to itself in the third person and making egotistical remarks, 1 star".

 

I rate you six Robert Goulets.

 

Wow. I'm hoping people sue for libel. Especially if they want to maintain some sense of privacy.

 

I always thought he, Tony Orlando and Wayne Newton were the same dude.

Yelp for People-- Dinner For Schmucks..that's me!

Same here. I must say that I am almost curious how many folks online despise me. Especially the anti-SLS/anti-NASA new-spacers, EELV apologists, etc.

It means I'm on target.

Then too--internet shaming can have positive effects on negative people
http://boingboing.net/2015/09/22/that-douchebag-pharma-bro-hedg.html

Now to get Alan Dean Foster to give me his secret way to download a shoggoth to his house..badly in need of a fatal exception error.

 

I can't speak for anyone else, but I rate you 3 Antares rockets.

 

Snopes.com suspects that the whole thing is a hoax.

http://m.snopes.com/2015/10/01/peeple/

http://www.theweek.co.uk/65541/peeple-is-controversial-human-rating-app-actually-a-hoax

If so, thank goodness.

But those marketers certainly know how to get pe(e/o)ple's attention.

Kor

 

Yeah, I think everyone can relate to that. Those guys are vicious.

 

It's not even the first. There's Klout, but that didn't really go anywhere as it was a bad idea bound to fail, and I don't really see this as being any different. It will likely just sink at the idea stage and be yet another forgotten idea that the internet never needed. I expect HBO's Silicon Valley to parody this at some point, and actually, I think they already have with the DudeBro storyline. This a pretty good article that compares the two.


http://kotaku.com/the-yelp-for-people-app-is-a-terrible-idea-that-wont-go-1734116889

 

Klout is an influence meter, not a rating system with potentially negative scores.

Klout has always been laughably useless, though.

 

I sure as hell hope it's a hoax! If it's not, it's possibly the worst online idea ever.