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There is a significant difference between rating someone in a market context and rating someone in a social context. People hold different norms between the two

There is a significant difference between rating someone in a market context and rating someone in a social context. People hold different norms between the two, and what Peeple failed to realize is the reaction people have when those norms cross over and are violated. Imagine rating your friend's dinner party the same way you'd rate a restaurant on Yelp, and you can get a sense of the difference.

Alex3917 11y ago
> There is a significant difference between rating someone in a market context and rating someone in a social context. And that's why I said that coming up with an implementation that accounts for these sorts of issues would obviously be challenging. These specific founders may or may not be smart enough to do it, but that doesn't say anything about the inherent possibility of doing so. I'm not saying I have a good solution, because I don't, but I'm also not willing to bet that there is no solution out of hand. And while I fully expect that this startup won't be successful, if only because of the difficulty of the problem, I also don't think it's fair to trash talk the founders without at least taking a look at the actual mechanics of their system.