Show HN: Yelp for People, Reviewing Humans, chattel.me
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Re: Show HN: Yelp for People, Reviewing Humans, chattel.me
#2hello, 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 reputation in the forms listed above can give a sense of how cool someone is and how nice their clothes are, but it doesn't provide much room for dissenting opinions and critique.
i built chattel.me as a reaction to high school, consensus, the level of online activity as a measure of worth, etc. on chattel.me, someone can say their piece about how great or horrible you are in spite of what the crowds have concluded. or it's like picking a restaurant via yelp -- above, say, 4 stars, a restaurant is game, but reviews can be read to determine kind apart from quality.
as far as i can tell, the internet is useful for two purposes: 1. to explore deviate sexual practices in greater detail; and 2. to rip each other the shreds anonymously. satre's famous quote is that "hell is other people", a reference to how the opinion of the other shapes the way you experience the self. i've aspired to create the "hell" on the internet.
and by hell i mean the livejournal to blogger or the myspace to facebook, where the foil to chattel.me is about.me/flavors.me, personal branding, and "beautiful design". the former are typically internet ghettos, but they're places of more raw human emotion where anything goes versus the superficiality of self-constructed narrative and advertisement. chattel.me is what some might call "hella emo".
i'm trying to speak to the nerds, rejects, losers, etc., what i was in high school and what i'm again on the high school that is the internet. nerd heros these days spend all day communicating with customers via social media, are highly popular, etc., which requires a degenerate level of engagement and polish. what happened?
fair’s fair, and i’ve added a page for myself here: http://www.chattel.me/humen/walter-chen-new-york-ny. i’ve already scoured my mental rolodex for who would merely think of me as “meh…” to no avail, and i’ve hit refresh a few times. i imagine that the site’s primary engagement mechanism will be neurosis and narcissism and it’s working fairly well on me.
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Re: Show HN: Yelp for People, Reviewing Humans, chattel.me
#3Interesting... 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 apps. It'd be good to have a different adoption vector here. When someone signs up you persuade them to try to review any of their friends already on the system.
- The overall tone is unclear: is this where friends review friends to say things like "he's cool" or this a place where professional contacts go to say "he sucks to work with". I think the latter would be more useful and that both sites could potentially exist, but you should make it more explicit.
Re: Show HN: Yelp for People, Reviewing Humans, chattel.me
#4hello, 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.
Re: Show HN: Yelp for People, Reviewing Humans, chattel.me
#5hello, 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
i've done so purposefully, although probably in questionable taste. chattel.me is a play on the word chatter and the notion of persons as products. if people are products, they they deserve corresponding scrutiny and critique.
(added stuff via edit there)
Re: Show HN: Yelp for People, Reviewing Humans, chattel.me
#6A place to anonymously libel those you don't like, named after a form of slavery.
Try again.
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#7Earlier 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
i've done so purposefully, although probably in questionable taste. chattel.me is a play on the word chatter and the notion of persons as products. if people are products, they they deserve corresponding scrutiny and critique. (added stuff via edit there)
That was on purpose?
You're just a lousy person. Do us all a favor, give yourself one star, then shut down your shitty 30 minute website.
Re: Show HN: Yelp for People, Reviewing Humans, chattel.me
#8hello, 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
The name made me think of cattle.
Re: Show HN: Yelp for People, Reviewing Humans, chattel.me
#9Interesting... 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…
i'm reminded of zadie smith's article awhile back about how using facebook means to interface with the mind of mark zuckerberg -- a place where a human becomes a list of likes and a relationship status. a friend of mine has strongly encouraged me to change the copy and tone of the site to something that reflects a more fun, creative side (think chatroulette meets facebook) rather than the sort of dark, "set yourself on fire" attitude related by the site currently. i think he's on to something, but i just don't know if it's me. in some sense, i think the site mirrors a personal and universal human desire to stalk and say crazy things about people. that i know for sure.
Re: Show HN: Yelp for People, Reviewing Humans, chattel.me
#10Earlier 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
The name made me think of cattle.
yeah, and in that sense, the use of the word is somewhat "harmless" (although i don't think the name reflects any "harm"; i mean, slavery happened).