“Will you ever give users the option to take down their profile?”
“No, because if we did that, everyone would take their profile down”
I find that remark quite amusing coming from the creator.
Unvarnished: A Clean, Well-Lighted Place For Defamation
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#12So, 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.
Nope, then the employer will assume you must be covering something up (which is true) and not hire you "just in case".
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#13I'm wondering how far you can really take it, and still be inside the boundaries of the law?
What is the limits of stalking for example? Could we follow the life of a RIAA lawyer and post photos and detailed description of his day to day life?
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#14So, 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.
Nope, then the employer will assume you must be covering something up (which is true) and not hire you "just in case".
Not if you fill thousands of other profiles with the same rubbish too. Then it's a level playing field.
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#15So, am I reading this right, in that someone can create a profile for you without your consent, and you can't stop it from appearing?
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#16Hey folks. Sorry for being so late to the conversation. It's been wild with the amount of media coverage we've been getting. I'll try to respond to comments.
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#17So, 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.
We're committed to implementing countermeasures that prevent bad content from coming onto the site. In similar fashion to how Reddit Karma and other reputation systems moderate content and kick off bad actors.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nope, then the employer will assume you must be covering something up (which is true) and not hire you "just in case".
Not if you fill thousands of other profiles with the same rubbish too. Then it's a level playing field.
Again, that sort of thing will be tough to do based on what we've built. You can't just spin up new account programattically. You have to use a verified Facebook account with a sufficient level of activity to prove humanness.
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#19If 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.
The site is actually full of awesome content of a very productive, professional nature. TechCrunch's headline was hysterical and designed to draw pageviews. Mission accomplished! The conversation on Unvarnished is more akin to what you find on HackerNews than on, say, 4chan.
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#20I'm wondering how far you can really take it, and still be inside the boundaries of the law? What is the limits of stalking for example? Could we follow the life of a RIAA lawyer and post photos and detailed description of his day to day life?
Private information that is not business related will be deleted from the site, and get the reviewer banned. (and not just kicked off the site. Ban his FBUID forever, such that he'll have to invest in a whole new FB identity that passes our threshold of "humanness" before he's let in again.)
So yeah, it's not a good idea to engage in behavior that violates community guidelines.