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This post gave me a negative opinion of you. See how this works?

• volgo 9y ago
  Exactly. Thanks for proving my point.
  • semperdark 9y ago
    Your point seems to have changed. The point of those replying to you is that snap judgements happen, and rarely are they correct. Your point was that we should be putting them into a global database for others to make second-hand judgements from bad data. Growing up in a racist area and taking a public stand against racism would give one a very poor score, even after leaving.
  • bsanderson 9y ago
    Does it really prove your point? What you said you'd find helpful is a "global database of opinions" whereas being down-voted on this particular site is a very limited context. Would you find it helpful if I happened to be in the key interviewer for a job that you really want and are fully qualified for and reject you based on my perception of you here, bubbling up through data processing and aggregation into a "global" system that's totally opaque to you? And further, that my negative reaction adds more data and pushes your score down? Up/Down voting comments here is totally appropriate as limited to this context. Applying that type of data, invisibly aggregated across all aspects of your life is what's seen as a problem, correctly in my view.