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This totally won't be abused to an absolute oblivion... right? Right? 

Because the article is too long to copy/paste, basically there will be an app released soon that'll allow you to rate anyone you want. You may not even know if you've been rated, people can just rate you this app will be great for stalkers, bad for people who are self-conscious, and perfect for cyber-bullying

How do you feel about this? Personally I think it's an awful idea x.x XD

From article:

You can already rate restaurants, hotels, movies, college classes, government agencies and bowel movements online.

So the most surprising thing about Peeple — basically Yelp, but for humans — may be the fact that no one has yet had the gall to launch something like it.

When the app does launch, probably in late November, you will be able to assign reviews and one- to five-star ratings to everyone you know: your exes, your co-workers, the old guy who lives next door. You can’t opt out — once someone puts your name in the Peeple system, it’s there unless you violate the site’s terms of service. And you can’t delete bad or biased reviews — that would defeat the whole purpose.

Imagine every interaction you’ve ever had suddenly open to the scrutiny of the Internet public.

“People do so much research when they buy a car or make those kinds of decisions,” said Julia Cordray, one of the app’s founders. “Why not do the same kind of research on other aspects of your life?”

Rest of the article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/09/30/everyone-you-know-will-be-able-to-rate-you-on-the-terrifying-yelp-for-people-whether-you-want-them-to-or-not/



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Oh, good, a custom made tool for teenagers to use when cyber-bullying their peers. What can go wrong.

I'd like to get this just so I can vote down the people responsible for it.



That sounds like the worst idea I've ever heard.



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No, just... why...



"Just for comparison Uncharted 4 was 20x bigger than Splatoon 2. This shows the huge difference between Sony's first-party games and Nintendo's first-party games."

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Brave new world, Fahrenheit 451, Logan's Run and every other sci-fi book talking about humanity and its own destruction of humanity. I've been saying we're in the future now, for a long time. Now more than ever are we in the future. The only thing stopping something terrible like this is ourselves. Let's please be above this and be better than what those soothsayers having been saying about where we're going. Because at the end of the day, this is only bad because we make it so.



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Well well. This is gonna get mad. App is already succeeded in word of mouth. There is some legal issues with this though I think. To my room collection you need to opt in to provide personally information to such an app. Which potentially means only those who has it installed will be available for others to see. At least I hope so



Ouroboros24 said:
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Brave new world, Fahrenheit 451, Logan's Run and every other sci-fi book talking about humanity and its own destruction of humanity. I've been saying we're in the future now, for a long time. Now more than ever are we in the future. The only thing stopping something terrible like this is ourselves. Let's please be above this and be better than what those soothsayers having been saying about where we're going. Because at the end of the day, this is only bad because we make it so.


Perfect.



Bet with Teeqoz for 2 weeks of avatar and sig control that Super Mario Odyssey would ship more than 7m on its first 2 months. The game shipped 9.07m, so I won

I wonder how this is going to end.



Wow this is incredibly beyond intrusive and gross



Lol. This is hilarious.



I bet the Wii U would sell more than 15M LTD by the end of 2015. He bet it would sell less. I lost.