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Peeple App lifespan: Do bookies take bets on this kind of thing?

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    #11
    Reads like the "roast me" craze whereby instead of holding up a paper sign - you register your desire to garner abuse by signing up to an app.

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      #12
      Indeed it is utterly appropriate

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        #13
        Is this like the old 'hot or not' site?
        Practically perfect in every way....there's a time and (more importantly) a place for malarkey.
        +5 Xeno Cool Points

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          #14
          Originally posted by oracleslave View Post
          Reads like the "roast me" craze whereby instead of holding up a paper sign - you register your desire to garner abuse by signing up to an app.
          The real delight of this is that you don't have to sign up to the app. Anybody who has your mobile number can sign you up, and post a comment about you. Once you have been signed up you are not allowed to leave.

          They argue that if the comment you are signed up with is abusive, they won't make it public immediately - though they will after 48 hours, on the assumption you can "talk it through" with the person making the comment and they will change it in that time, because everybody is nice.

          But they are the ones who get to decide what is abusive. So if, for example, somebody posts a message that seems to be effusive praise but is actually major trolling (e.g. posting a message about how strong X has been as they begin their transition to womanhood, to the account of somebody who happens to work for a fundamentalist Christian) these idiots would happily approve it straight away because it "says something nice about you".

          As you can see, they've really thought this through, and covered all the angles
          Last edited by NickFitz; 2 October 2015, 11:16.

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            #15
            Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
            Anybody who has your mobile number can sign you up, and post a comment about you.
            Brilliant. I'm going to sign up some mates.

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              #16
              Originally posted by Chuck View Post
              Brilliant. I'm going to sign up some mates.
              There's a few Agents who could be signed up too, it would help them immensely with their 2 References type behaviour

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                #17
                To add to the fun, Snopes suggests that the whole thing may just be some kind of bizarre scheme for promoting the existing business of the two women in question, who are… recruitment consultants!

                Peeple Bleater : snopes.com

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