Like any anonymous forums, Blind is toxic. Hope it dies a quick death
I don’t think anonymity guarantees toxicity, but anonymity without any sort of rule enforcement sure seems to guarantee toxicity.
At Blind, a security lapse revealed private complaints from tech employees
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#42I'd never checked out Blind before. I just went there and checked out a few of the front page posts & comments. It has some of the most toxic and destructive "advice" I've seen for people asking for help or insight. I'm a bit astounded. Is this typical?
It's pathetic, you see some of the most depraved, narcissistic members of the tech society there. The quality of the discourse you can guess is shockingly bad, and most people are from the Bay area. Is this an accurate representation of people in the Bay? Or is it just a platform for toxic folk to hang out?
Blind is to Silicon Valley what 4chan is to the internet
Re: At Blind, a security lapse revealed private complaints from tech employees
#43I'd never checked out Blind before. I just went there and checked out a few of the front page posts & comments. It has some of the most toxic and destructive "advice" I've seen for people asking for help or insight. I'm a bit astounded. Is this typical?
It's pathetic, you see some of the most depraved, narcissistic members of the tech society there. The quality of the discourse you can guess is shockingly bad, and most people are from the Bay area. Is this an accurate representation of people in the Bay? Or is it just a platform for toxic folk to hang out?
Having been on blind for nearly a year, I find it interesting how weak the rumor mill on Blind is. The real rumor mill at most large companies basically knows everything that is going on; blind is mostly junior programmers flaunting often made-up compensation and scrambling to gain a low-tier grade level.
Blind could have been an opportunity for them to get direct and honest insight into how the sausage is made but instead is trolling and leetcode-your-way-to-fang obsessing.
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#44I'd never checked out Blind before. I just went there and checked out a few of the front page posts & comments. It has some of the most toxic and destructive "advice" I've seen for people asking for help or insight. I'm a bit astounded. Is this typical?
Examples?
Everything on https://www.teamblind.com
Re: At Blind, a security lapse revealed private complaints from tech employees
#45Like any anonymous forums, Blind is toxic. Hope it dies a quick death
I don’t think anonymity guarantees toxicity, but anonymity without any sort of rule enforcement sure seems to guarantee toxicity.
I agree, though the "stated purpose" of the site being to anonymously complain about coworkers probably doesn't help it stay as a positive environment for intelligent discussion either.
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#46They made a big mistake, but generally I love reading Blind. There are a lot of interesting things on it about which I couldn't talk even to my own colleagues.
As many others, I had heard about it and never actually took a look until now. Seems like a waste of time to me. Make a throw away account on Reddit like everyone else, and you'll probably get more well thought out and measured replies.
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#47>At its core, the app and anonymous social network allows users to sign up using their corporate email address, which is said to be linked only to Blind’s member ID. People just trusted it? I get that to seem legitimate the users have to be confirmed in some way, but as a user... now way am I exposing myself that way.
The emails were "sitting plaintext in an exposed database."
Major things wrong: unencrypted email addresses + private messages, leaving the database without a password, database wasn't fixed until a week after knowing of the error.
I find it concerning that this kind of news seems normal now.
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#48Wait, Blind doesn't use end-to-end encryption?
How to use end-to-end encryption on a forum?
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's pathetic, you see some of the most depraved, narcissistic members of the tech society there. The quality of the discourse you can guess is shockingly bad, and most people are from the Bay area. Is this an accurate representation of people in the Bay? Or is it just a platform for toxic folk to hang out?
Blind is to Silicon Valley what 4chan is to the internet
I just browsed through some threads and you are spot on.
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#50Like any anonymous forums, Blind is toxic. Hope it dies a quick death
For all the toxicity blind is one of the best resources to discover comp info online, since sharing salary is still a bit taboo. Some of it is e-statting but I’ve found it to be useful for when you negotiate comp.