can someone comment on issues of libel?
why is the url path named "humEn"?
also, i'm not sure what you were thinking with the name. slavery?
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#12This site is just begging to be hit with a libel suit.
Who's going to be the first to "subscribe" $CELEBRITY?
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#13I dont know, a set of anonymous reviews of somebody does not sound like a measure of anything related to that person.
What will these reviews really tell me?
None of the reviews in the profiles that were linked here seemed to provide an quantifiable metric of any sort unlike say a set of LinkedIn recommendations or StackOverflow reputaton points.
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#14can someone comment on issues of libel? why is the url path named "humEn"? also, i'm not sure what you were thinking with the name. slavery?
the url path is humen, because that's how rails pluralizes human. the class name is "human". this is my first rails app. i didn't bother to change it out of laziness.
yeah see above. chattel has a neutral definition and it's just that chattel is personal property that's movable. throughout us history, people have been thought of as chattel, namely slaves and women. i suppose the site calls all people chattel, and in that way it's somewhat contentless and i don't think it takes a stand on the normative value of slavery and say, women's sufferage. (although i think it's fair to say, boo, slavery, yay, women.)
i'm actually a lawyer, and i'm sure that if anyone uses this site to say horrible things about some litigious person (or just really bad things about a normal person), and people actually use this site, then i will have to deal with civil litigation. i suppose there's a moral question as to creating a site in which libel is more freely available, but i'll leave that to the moralists to duke out.
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#15hello, hn. i built a website where you can rate a human out of 5 stars and write a review of them. i remember reading an article here about who would win the war as the measure for a person's online reputation. would it be quora or stackoverflow, linkedin, twitter, etc.? everyone here on hn recognizes, say, patio11. big burly dude, hairy chest, stalking the halls with his smoking hot cheerleader girlfriend. online re…
You've chosen a very unfortunate name for your project. While chattel is defined as "moveable personal property", the word has a very close association with slavery in America. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_United_States
Yep. suss.me is available -- I bought it when the .me domains first came out, thinking of something like this, but never did anything with it.
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#16hello, hn. i built a website where you can rate a human out of 5 stars and write a review of them. i remember reading an article here about who would win the war as the measure for a person's online reputation. would it be quora or stackoverflow, linkedin, twitter, etc.? everyone here on hn recognizes, say, patio11. big burly dude, hairy chest, stalking the halls with his smoking hot cheerleader girlfriend. online re…
You've chosen a very unfortunate name for your project. While chattel is defined as "moveable personal property", the word has a very close association with slavery in America. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_United_States
Yes, a dubious url indeed. But one that seems appropriate for the project at hand.
It seems we've degenerated further than even cubeduel, where there was some criterion for slandering someone. Here, it's just a general opportunity to rip into that guy you've always been after...
"i built chattel.me as a reaction to high school, consensus, the level of online activity as a measure of worth" Yeah, in high school, the folks whispering about you needed a perhaps minuscule amount of guts and connections to spread their rumors. Here, even that's gone... (you know that here, who votes you up or down is already anonymous ...)
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
You've chosen a very unfortunate name for your project. While chattel is defined as "moveable personal property", the word has a very close association with slavery in America. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_United_States
Yes, a dubious url indeed. But one that seems appropriate for the project at hand. It seems we've degenerated further than even cubeduel, where there was some criterion for slandering someone. Here, it's just a general opportunity to rip into that guy you've always been after... "i built chattel.me as a reaction to high school, consensus, the level of online activity as a measure of worth" Yeah, in high school, the f…
true. yet, for all the concern re libel and slander, none has yet to appear on the site. in fact, people just write about how great the other person is. i guess what they say is true: you get more flies with anonymous honey than with anonymous vinegar.
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#18Shouldn't there be pictures of the people being rated? Would this be evolved to something like the hotornot sites a while back?
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#19This site is just begging to be hit with a libel suit. Who's going to be the first to "subscribe" $CELEBRITY?
I doubt it. By the same thinking shouldn't yelp be liable to a libel suit by businesses which it has reviews about?
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#20This site is just begging to be hit with a libel suit. Who's going to be the first to "subscribe" $CELEBRITY?