Peeple

Peeple

Rate human beings

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What do you think? …

Chris Messina
Ick.
Veronica Belmont
@chrismessina I feel bad, since the creators seem like nice people. But this is like everything wrong with the internet right now.
Evan Schoepke
@chrismessina is there a easy way to make a barf emoticon...?
Jeff Needles
@veronica could this be PH's next vertical? People Hunt? cc: @rrhoover
Veronica Belmont
@jsneedles haha nooooooo!!
Dan Flanegan
@jsneedles I'd upvote you in the PH People category.
Ryan Hoover
@veronica @jsneedles ha! Some suggested we create collection of people but we've avoided it for obvious reasons.
Eric Anderson
@jsneedles Why can't I upvote this 1000 times over?
Veronica Belmont
This seems... like a bad idea. I don't really know how else to put it. Ratings are already such a subjective and sometimes reductive practice. I'm not sure what good would come of this? Apparently if you're given a bad review, it gets sent to you first and then you can contest it privately with the reviewer, but I don't see that as going well either.
Chris Messina
@veronica this idea has been tried many times, and typically fails — for the reasons you've mentioned. There's just not enough incentives in the world to keep people on their best behavior, and when given the chance, without shared context, people will tear each other down. This is why reputation.com and more exists (I don't like reputation.com; only mentioning them because they illustrate my point about the secondary market that exists to "hide" negative information from Google and elsewhere). I'd love to have @Kazanjy come and talk about his previous efforts to build Unvarnished and then Honestly.com.
Lenny Hu
@chrismessina @veronica hmm, whatever happened to honestly.com anyway?