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Like any anonymous forums, Blind is toxic. Hope it dies a quick death
by dmode 8y ago
Like any anonymous forums, Blind is toxic. Hope it dies a quick death
- huac 8y agowould you consider hacker news to be anonymous?
- whymauri 8y agoWhile you can choose to be anon on HN, I think the culture of HN tends away from that. People will use recurring internet handles, write informative bios of themselves, etc. I suppose nothing stops people from doing this on Blind, but like I said I think it's a cultural difference between platforms. There is less moderation on Blind, so there are more "provocative posts" that people definitely do not want associated with an identifier.
- village-idiot 8y agoI don’t think anonymity guarantees toxicity, but anonymity without any sort of rule enforcement sure seems to guarantee toxicity.
- ggggtez 8y agoI agree, though the "stated purpose" of the site being to anonymously complain about coworkers probably doesn't help it stay as a positive environment for intelligent discussion either.
- chillacy 8y agoFor all the toxicity blind is one of the best resources to discover comp info online, since sharing salary is still a bit taboo. Some of it is e-statting but I’ve found it to be useful for when you negotiate comp.
- haditab 8y agoThere's so much misinformation on it I find it hard to trust. I prefer to go with H1B salary databases.
- mcpherrinm 8y agoH1B databases tend to underestimate. My entry in the database lists my starting salary from a few years ago, with no bonuses, options/rsus, or promotion/raises.
- chillacy 8y agolevels.fyi is pretty good since it has the bonuses and rsus, but sometimes it doesn't have everything if it doesn't fit into that structure
- vonmoltke 8y agolevels.fyi only really works for companies that have large numbers of reports. The raw data has so many reporting inconsistencies that it's really hard to interpret for most companies.
- mcpherrinm 8y agoThough you have a very solid lower bound number from the database. It is just important to understand what that number is.
- lawnchair_larry 8y agoThose don’t list RSUs, which are a major component of compensation, and more variable.
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