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Re: Opt Out of Klout Now

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Post by thegna »

cbr wrote: post #51
thegna wrote: post #45

A related question to HN community: Is there anyway to opt out of Wikipedia? Say, somebody created a profile page for me without asking for my permission. Is there anyway to delete my page?

You can generally get the page deleted only if it doesn't meet their criteria for a biography of a living person. Asking permission or being acceptable to the subject aren't in the criteria. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:BLP_deletion_process

Let's say I'm a well-known person in my field, somebody created a Wikipedia profile page for me, the page does meet their criteria for a biography of a living person and the page has been there for years. Is there anyway to have it deleted?

Re: Opt Out of Klout Now

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Post by bobsy »

I have never cared out Klout. The day my employer cares about it is the day I move on to bigger and better things.

Regarding the guys website. When did it become a thing to make all content bold? I have been seeing this more and more. It's horrible. Recently The Guardian mobile website started using a bold font and I haven't used it since..

Re: Opt Out of Klout Now

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Post by paulgb »

ldng wrote: post #59
buro9 wrote: post #9

I hadn't even realised that they had a profile on me even though I've never participated in their site. I've now opted out, but I suspect doing so has fattened the profiles of everyone I follow as verifying Twitter id to opt-out meant granting access to who I follow for a brief moment.

How do you check without login in ?

klout.com/

Re: Opt Out of Klout Now

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Post by uxwtf »

ldng wrote: post #56
edent wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I didn't participate. Klout hoover up public information. Are you on Twitter or Facebook? Congratulations! You are a Klout user by default! They have a score for you which they can then sell on. Sme with Kred. You don't sign up - they just assume passive consent.

How come ?! This is blatantly illegal in Europe ! I genuinely really don't see how they could get passive consent unless FB and Twitter themselves give them access. Or they just scrap public profiles ?

Why is it illegal in Europe? Klout analyses your Twitter interactions which are publicly visible.

Re: Opt Out of Klout Now

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Post by mathattack »

All the comments so far are about opting in because we're concerned the boss thinks we're not visible enough online. What if it's a little more nefarious.... Companies want to use it to see who is wasting time online?

Re: Opt Out of Klout Now

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Post by toble »

abrahamsen wrote: post #50

I don't get it? Why would my employer care how many cat pictures I share?

I guess not everyone posts cat pictures.

If people really want to avoid having their social media activities catching up with them, then make sure that you give [potential] employers completely different contact details. Ideally, have a separate email address for each social media service and never link them together.

Re: Opt Out of Klout Now

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Post by beaker52 »

danso wrote: post #53
beaker52 wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You have reduced the discussion to what, subjectively, makes a good plumber. I will try to bring this back to my original point - One that is not necessarily a good marketeer may be far more suitable for the job, yet good marketeers but unskilled plumbers (to say unsuitable for the skilled job at hand) seem to be "successful" in terms of success and profit in their field.

So how are you quantifying this? The metric that you've set up: skill level vs. popularity/success, is not easy to measure. Because for the most part, the examples that will easily come to mind of good and bad people will also be the popular ones... So when you go into this with the expectation that success/popularity should be directly related to skill, you are going to naturally remember the many examples of when b…

My bias is towards there being a lack of connection between ones marketability and their skill based on my biased and limited observing of people performing roles they are believed (by people who put them there) to be better at than it is revealed that they are.

I have also observed people keeping these roles through the relationships they manage with the people they are accountable to. Relationships in these circumstances are about marketing one individual to another.

I'd be surprised if these observations are limited to my own experience. Somewhere in amongst all the biases of our individual experiences we must determine something to be fact. For if I read and agree with a scientific paper which outlines something I regard as fact, it is still subject to my experience and hence we must ground ourselves on the basis of our collective experiences aligning.

Re: Opt Out of Klout Now

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Post by rjd »

I just had a quick look onto it myself and can official say its a complete joke of a ranking system.

Apparently some of my friends from the news industry (where I used to work), being minor local celebs/TV personalities... with thousands of follows they interact with daily... friends with proper international celebs... are scoring lower than some of my friends that just rant bullocks.

I wouldn't bother about this service being very indicative of anything in the real world.

Re: Opt Out of Klout Now

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Post by morsch »

thegna wrote: post #60
ErsatzVerkehr wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In general, anyone can edit or delete Wikipedia pages. If you are a "notable person" then you can expect your edits to be reverted, however; on the other hand, if you are not very notable, a page about you would probably not survive very long anyway.

My original question was: let's say I'm a well-known person in my field, somebody created a Wikipedia profile page for me, and the page has been there for years. Is there anyway to have it deleted?

No. Wikipedia itself does not grant you any special right to delete your own article page. You may have (IANAL) certain legal rights that would allow you force them to delete the entire page or parts of it, but this rarely happens.

Re: Opt Out of Klout Now

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Post by edent »

bobsy wrote: post #62

I have never cared out Klout. The day my employer cares about it is the day I move on to bigger and better things. Regarding the guys website. When did it become a thing to make all content bold? I have been seeing this more and more. It's horrible. Recently The Guardian mobile website started using a bold font and I haven't used it since..

The font on my site shouldn't be bold (apart from the title). Mind if I ask which browser you're using?
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