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

[NickFitz]

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

[TykeMerc]

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

[Chuck]

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.

[NickFitz]

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

[MaryPoppins]

Is this like the old 'hot or not' site?

[TykeMerc]

Irony: Woman makes app that lets people rate and review you, Yelp-style. Now SHE'S upset people are 'reviewing' her

Indeed it is utterly appropriate

[oracleslave]

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.

[meridian]

Irony: Woman makes app that lets people rate and review you, Yelp-style. Now SHE'S upset people are 'reviewing' her

I almost spat my coffee out at this comment:

i do hope all the exploitative, money grubbing, race to the bottom, scum sucking, tulip for brains, twats who thought creating and funding this invitation to abuse was a good idea, lose every penny
then i'd like them to slip in the street and land in a large steaming turd, not be injured, but as they lay reeking, get pissed on by people passing by who mistake the steam for smoke and are therefore being positive in their output

[BrilloPad]

Complete arseholes excited by prospect of ‘Yelp for people’

What sort of world would it be if we were all honest? Like CUK general?

Where can we rate the people who came up with this app?

Where can we rate the CUK moderators?

[darmstadt]

Irony: Woman makes app that lets people rate and review you, Yelp-style. Now SHE'S upset people are 'reviewing' her

[cojak]

Hence 9 months.

[NickFitz]

From the "Not Doing Themselves Any Favours" department:

"There's a lot of misunderstandings of the way the app actually works," Cordray says. "We have more integrity features and more accountability features built in than most online ratings systems today. I can appreciate, when people found out the world was actually round and not flat, and that we revolved around the sun instead of the sun revolving around us, there was tons of fear and uproar. We need to keep in mind that with any new concept and any new idea, there's always going to be some fear and some concern."

- http://www.newsweek.com/interview-pe...-humans-378561

I say again:

[NickFitz]

It's not just RTBF that'll screw it, at least in the UK. Our libel laws, though no longer offering the jackpot payouts of a couple of decades ago, are much tougher and easier to build a case on than those in the USA. The Register thus wasn't quite right in calling it "Slander As A Service", but I think they deserve some slack on the grounds of alliteration

There's also the Data Protection Act. Basically, that would shut them down before they've even started, as by definition their process allows - nay, requires - people to enter personally identifying information about others, without their consent, and make it public. That will never fly, not just in the UK but throughout the EU, as far as I know.

And there's the appalling PR from the utter pasting they've been receiving on social media all day.

I give it Monday at the latest before they announce a major rethink, probably trying to make out it's everybody else's fault at the same time.

One final point:

[cojak]

November apparently.

I was going to say 3 months, but allowing for the blithe idiotic optimism of the owners and the time it will take to get a few bullied people together for some lawyer-loving class-action type thing, I make it 9 months.

But you're right TM, the 'Right to Be Forgotten' might kick it into touch immediately.

[TykeMerc]

What a ludicrous concept, as mentioned in the article it's just a licence to troll.

However, users will not be able to delete comments made about them. Nor will they be able to remove themselves from the site once on it.

Won't the EU ruling on the Right to be Forgotten scupper this element completely?

It's not planned for a 1st of April release or anything is it?