An app for rating people. Will it catch on?

[fractional slacker]

Curious what you guys think about this app that lets you rate other people in any of the following categories: professional, personal, romantic.

Reputation is the essence of a voluntary DRO-based society. Will this app gain traction in the voluntary/anarchy community?

 

 

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/peeple-the-yelp-for-people-app-launches/

[Wuzzums]

This is not reputation, this is democracy.

 

Reputation is acquired by what other people say about you first hand. We actually know and trust the middleman.

Here we don't know the middleman. We just know what a bunch of people we never met say about another person we never met. Letting other people make decisions for you is the essence of democracy.

 

I see you can choose what recommendations go on your profile. This is foolproof, it will in no way whatsoever be abused.

[luxfelix]

I can see how such apps could restore a sense of social accountability inherent in the days of yore; likewise, there are potential abuses on the horizon: 

 

Though, it sounds like these were taken into consideration with the permission-prerequisite reviews to discourage character account vandalism (etc.). In short, there is still an element of privacy.

 

This could also act as a cost reduction modifier for insurance policies, fiduciary contracts, or similar cases where social capital will help various parties to make informed decisions between people who've not met before. There is already a growing popularity in tracking other metrics (like health/fitness for example).

 

It might be helpful to also have an anonymous(?) leader board for folks to aspire to. 

[fractional slacker]

 

luxfelix - Thank you for posting. The sesame credit thing is frightening as it marks another way for a totalitarian Orwellian nightmare.  This new rating people app is like a beta version test of the Chinese model. Kids will be like "It's new. It's fun. Let's try it."

 

[luxfelix]

Maybe this is related to the idea of a knife having the capability to either save or take a life depending on whom is using it and for what purpose? (Where this would be fine when used in a free market/society but ominous in the hands of a government?)

 

Also, though it could be helpful to have a more accurate account of one's social capital, maybe it's fine as is; it's mostly an informal part of our lives regarding whom we associate with, favors owed to and from, how influential we are with certain individuals (etc.). Is it something we can experiment with/other examples where we have been?

[adamNJ]

Too bad it's only for Iphone, any similar app for Android?