WTF? 600 + duels and very addicting.
LinkedIn shuts down Cubeduel, the viral co-worker rating service
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Re: LinkedIn shuts down Cubeduel, the viral co-worker rating service
#22It's a great idea (from the point of view of virality) but it seems like it would be poisonous to the atmosphere in most teams. Would I want to stay back late to help someone who'd ranked me lower than my coworkers? I'd love to say yes, but probably not.
For what it's worth, it's nigh impossible to see who voted on you. And even if you're losing duels-- it's not necessarily a reflection on you, but rather a reflection on you vs. a particular coworker. In other words, there'd be no shame in losing a duel to someone awesome, right? However, if you find that you're losing duels against people who you think poorly of consistently, or losing ALL of your duels, that might…
"For what it's worth, it's nigh impossible to see who voted on you."
... for now. They could release that data at ANY time. Imagine the damage that will have on co-worker relationships.
Re: LinkedIn shuts down Cubeduel, the viral co-worker rating service
#23It's a great idea (from the point of view of virality) but it seems like it would be poisonous to the atmosphere in most teams. Would I want to stay back late to help someone who'd ranked me lower than my coworkers? I'd love to say yes, but probably not.
Don't worry they'd rather someone else stayed behind instead anyway
Re: LinkedIn shuts down Cubeduel, the viral co-worker rating service
#24Adam (I have since learned) had seen the limits and the LinkedIn folks actually raised them for us before we launched... But I don't think ANY of us thought that we'd hit the higher limit. But don't judge us too harshly! :-) Remember, this started as a side-project... And certainly don't judge LinkedIn. Other than not being instantly responsive on a Friday afternoon (which I think wouldn't be a fair expectation), the…
You are the creator of this "cubeduel" thing?!?? Wow... hadn't seen it, glad it stopped here or least hoping it did... I really couldn't imagine a more pernicious effort to poison already strained interpersonal relations in America if I tried. I don't think your project is illegal but it is clearly, morally, reprehensible. You should be ashamed of yourself. What you are doing is a "bad thing" - on a pretty high scale…
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Re: LinkedIn shuts down Cubeduel, the viral co-worker rating service
#25Adam (I have since learned) had seen the limits and the LinkedIn folks actually raised them for us before we launched... But I don't think ANY of us thought that we'd hit the higher limit. But don't judge us too harshly! :-) Remember, this started as a side-project... And certainly don't judge LinkedIn. Other than not being instantly responsive on a Friday afternoon (which I think wouldn't be a fair expectation), the…
You are the creator of this "cubeduel" thing?!?? Wow... hadn't seen it, glad it stopped here or least hoping it did... I really couldn't imagine a more pernicious effort to poison already strained interpersonal relations in America if I tried. I don't think your project is illegal but it is clearly, morally, reprehensible. You should be ashamed of yourself. What you are doing is a "bad thing" - on a pretty high scale…
"Judge not, that ye be not judged"
God, that is an ironic choice in phrase on your part.
Re: LinkedIn shuts down Cubeduel, the viral co-worker rating service
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
you provided more condemnation than analysis. In my reading of the Book, He reached out to people as an educator and provided guidance about a path that offers help to people that followed other ways. Do you see the irony in your quote?
Sorry, the analysis seemed rather clear. Offering people a chance to fight arena-style fights against their fellows is rather unscrupulous to say the least. Do you defend doing this? Taking down the site and apologizing seems like a pretty clear guidance to ending the problem. What else would you suggest? Does your reading of the bible or religious texts support sites like 'cubeduel'? The point is also don't judge un…
I agree with you 100% and am willing to take the down votes.
This is extremely obnoxious and I would think that LinkedIn is afraid that people will leave the site in droves if this is allowed to continue...
Re: LinkedIn shuts down Cubeduel, the viral co-worker rating service
#27I havn't looked at this, but I guess if you allow co-workers to rate each other then all that's going to happen is that the office politics gets transferred onto the site, with a lot of people bitching about each other, which might not be such a great idea. Also if you're rating co-workers from previous companies then old animosities could be perpetuated online.
I'm only cautious because in a couple of places that I've worked at in the past the office politics was occasionally quite toxic, and amplification of that via the internet could have quite serious consequences.
Re: LinkedIn shuts down Cubeduel, the viral co-worker rating service
#28It's a great idea (from the point of view of virality) but it seems like it would be poisonous to the atmosphere in most teams. Would I want to stay back late to help someone who'd ranked me lower than my coworkers? I'd love to say yes, but probably not.
I haven't used it much, but they could use the Condorcet method (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet_method) to rank everyone on linkedin, or everyone in your team, or whatever. It would be pretty silly if they just told you how many duels you've lost rather than give you an overall standing, either global or team-based (although I can see how that could incite some rivalry).
Re: LinkedIn shuts down Cubeduel, the viral co-worker rating service
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
For what it's worth, it's nigh impossible to see who voted on you. And even if you're losing duels-- it's not necessarily a reflection on you, but rather a reflection on you vs. a particular coworker. In other words, there'd be no shame in losing a duel to someone awesome, right? However, if you find that you're losing duels against people who you think poorly of consistently, or losing ALL of your duels, that might…
"For what it's worth, it's nigh impossible to see who voted on you." ... for now. They could release that data at ANY time. Imagine the damage that will have on co-worker relationships.
Running a web vulnerability scanner at their page could be... interesting. Illegal, probably, but interesting.
Re: LinkedIn shuts down Cubeduel, the viral co-worker rating service
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sorry, the analysis seemed rather clear. Offering people a chance to fight arena-style fights against their fellows is rather unscrupulous to say the least. Do you defend doing this? Taking down the site and apologizing seems like a pretty clear guidance to ending the problem. What else would you suggest? Does your reading of the bible or religious texts support sites like 'cubeduel'? The point is also don't judge un…
I agree with you 100% and am willing to take the down votes. This is extremely obnoxious and I would think that LinkedIn is afraid that people will leave the site in droves if this is allowed to continue...
I suspect I've got plenty of supporters. The number of down votes is ... interesting. But I'm not terribly concerned.