Unvarnished: A Clean, Well-Lighted Place For Defamation
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Unvarnished: A Clean, Well-Lighted Place For Defamation
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Re: Unvarnished: A Clean, Well-Lighted Place For Defamation
#2So, I guess one strategy here would be to fill your own profile full of stories so obviously fake that they discredit anything that might be true.
Re: Unvarnished: A Clean, Well-Lighted Place For Defamation
#3people with more friends could quickly down-vote each other's negative reviews and write scathing reviews for whoever they wish to bully
unless they explicitly bar people below a certain age, this site will wreak havoc in children's social lives
Re: Unvarnished: A Clean, Well-Lighted Place For Defamation
#4Another strategy would be to write a few well-written, plausible, damning reviews of yourself. That way you weed out prospective employers who are stupid enough to believe any old garbage they read on the intertubes.
Re: Unvarnished: A Clean, Well-Lighted Place For Defamation
#5My crystal ball shows that the future is cloudy, with a chance of defamation lawsuits.
Re: Unvarnished: A Clean, Well-Lighted Place For Defamation
#6If it is the way it is now, smart people will automatically start discrediting the site. So, I don't see a need to worry excessively.
Re: Unvarnished: A Clean, Well-Lighted Place For Defamation
#7This will most likely be illegal in France (ianal, just a feeling).
Re: Unvarnished: A Clean, Well-Lighted Place For Defamation
#8There is probably a counter business here: "destroy your unvarnished profile".
Either an expensive hand crafted one or, depending on their "spam" filters, Mechanical Turk farmed.
(I can't quite describe the whole reasons but I find this particular site wholly distasteful)
Re: Unvarnished: A Clean, Well-Lighted Place For Defamation
#9This reminds me more of Get Satisfaction than Yelp - in the sense that people perhaps aren't even after publicity, but they can get listed anyway. Only now it's individuals that can have their reputation held to ransom!
Re: Unvarnished: A Clean, Well-Lighted Place For Defamation
#10I wonder if underlying users get a chance to respond to negative material. At least this site can be focal point for rebuttal. Negativity shouldn't be feared.