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Re: Show HN: Yelp for People, Reviewing Humans, chattel.me

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Post by jwb119 » Thu, Mar 03, 2011, 8:41 PM UTC

shaggyfrog wrote: post #12

This site is just begging to be hit with a libel suit. Who's going to be the first to "subscribe" $CELEBRITY?

More accurately, it's going to set someone up to be hit in a libel suit. The site is no more liable that tumblr is when someone starts a libelous blog using their system.

Re: Show HN: Yelp for People, Reviewing Humans, chattel.me

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Post by smalter » Thu, Mar 03, 2011, 8:42 PM UTC

shaggyfrog wrote: post #12

This site is just begging to be hit with a libel suit. Who's going to be the first to "subscribe" $CELEBRITY?

there's no libel suit without libel. (i challenge you to show me the libel on chattel.me. maybe that's a bad incentive. nevertheless, what i've written holds true in spirit. 1. no one cares about this website and as a result, there's no libel on it; 2. seems that even the opportunity for anonymous speech doesn't generate the amount of vitriol one might expect (maybe there should be a "... yet" after that), perhaps redeeming this project and all of humankind with it.)

Re: Show HN: Yelp for People, Reviewing Humans, chattel.me

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Post by smalter » Thu, Mar 03, 2011, 8:59 PM UTC

ww520 wrote: post #18

Shouldn't there be pictures of the people being rated? Would this be evolved to something like the hotornot sites a while back?

you can find links to various people's social media profiles and find pictures there. my friend is trying to get me to couch the site more as a hotornot type site where you meet someone's social media presence and tell them what you think about it.

Re: Show HN: Yelp for People, Reviewing Humans, chattel.me

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Post by dchads » Thu, Mar 03, 2011, 9:01 PM UTC

the marker of a good idea is when it seems rediculously obvious in hindsight. the basic premise of the site, a forum to say things about people that isn't controlled by the people, seems rediculously obvious and i'm dumbfounded that there is this huge gap in the internet.

Re: Show HN: Yelp for People, Reviewing Humans, chattel.me

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Post by artmageddon » Thu, Mar 03, 2011, 9:05 PM UTC

rguzman wrote: post #3

Interesting... if you know me, please review me, HN: http://www.chattel.me/humen/rodrigo-guzman-san-francisco-ca Smalter, some feedback: - I was initially hesitant to share via FB/twitter. Nothing in particular about the chattel itself, rather I don't always want to throw something on my news feed without knowing exactly what it'll do and even when I do know I'm not too inclined to put stuff on my feed from 3rd party…

Personally...regarding your last point, I'd rather there was not any site like that where a person can leave feedback on a person as a whole. It's like Yelp! but for people instead, and quite frankly I don't have much trust in that site. On a professional level, LinkedIn probably works as well as I'm comfortable with.

But just for the fun of it, I gave you five stars on chattel with my city reference :)