John Oliver talked about this site last night on his show. What caught my attention is that it seemed like the founders were clueless, but I only know it from the show.<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnZa18F8QW4" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnZa18F8QW4</a><p>submitted here:<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10331184" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10331184</a>
From what I read, they are building this app with the intention of it being like LinkedIn where the hope is for positive referrals. But of course we know there will be negative reviews. You can't leave anonymous reviews, which could be some incentive for most people to be decent. Of course there's a million things that could go wrong. And, if nobody pays attention to the site then it won't work anyway.<p>This isn't even a new idea. There's apps to rate ex-boyfriends and such that are obviously focused on being negative. Just for example <a href="http://www.ratedexes.com/add-person/john-carreiro-251332-victoria" rel="nofollow">http://www.ratedexes.com/add-person/john-carreiro-251332-vic...</a>
This app was a really really bad idea from the start. PG and YC often tell people to look for ideas that "seem bad" but this is a whole new league. Even if used properly by 100% of people 100% of the time it would still be a bad idea and fundamentally could never have worked. I"m just surprised someone ponied up the cash to see it realised - perhaps theres an ulterior motive. I don't know.
Why do people seem to overwhelmingly consider this such a bad/despicable idea? Doesn't it seem like it would prevent some motivation for people not to be assholes? Are people worried about inevitable misuse (bullying?)?<p>We all do this rating in real life. Sometimes people talk about their ratings of other people with each other ("yeah, I know john, he's really annoying"). You know which of your friends are good and which are not... Why not make this open knowledge?
On LinkedIn[1]: "Peeple is a POSITIVE ONLY APP. We want to bring positivity and kindness to the world."<p>On video[2]: "I wouldn't want this app to just be positive (...) we don't live in a fairtale land (...) it would be pointless if it was all positive."<p>[1]: <a href="https://linkedin.com/pulse/julia-cordray-ceo-peeple-creating-worlds-largest-app-julia-cordray" rel="nofollow">https://linkedin.com/pulse/julia-cordray-ceo-peeple-creating...</a><p>[2]: <a href="https://vid.me/ukIW" rel="nofollow">https://vid.me/ukIW</a>
Some friends in Miami built this same concept 8 years ago. It was called TheGorb.com (Good or Bad). They hired PHDs to come up with algorithms for ranking, and all sorts of complex variables to factor. In the end no one cared or wanted to rate others enough to make it stick.
MeowMeowBeenz.<p>Community s05e08, "App Development and Condiments"
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/App_Development_and_Condiments" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/App_Development_and_Condiments</a>