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This thing will be a victim of its own success. If it ever takes off, it will be blacklisted by every web-content filtering program. If gmail and vault.com ar

by zangief 19y ago

This thing will be a victim of its own success. If it ever takes off, it will be blacklisted by every web-content filtering program. If gmail and vault.com are blocked, you'd better believe this will be, too.

socmoth 19y ago
and gmail is hardly a success at all.
danielha 19y ago
I hardly think Gmail can be called a victim. Blocked? Use it elsewhere -- gossip doesn't run dry outside the workplace.
pg 19y ago
They thought of this. In that case people will use it from home. And if they're working for the kind of company that would block Overhear.Us, then there will probably be a lot they need to talk about.
- zangief 19y ago
  People are lazy. And people at big companies, where web-blocking software is routinely deployed, are especially lazy. Standard Bayes. Vault.com, despite not having nearly as nice a site as overhear.us, had reams of traffic and posts about individual employers, until it got blacklisted. I can imagine this site having a good following with companies that are not strict about the web-filtering list [which I abhor, btw]. However, those companies are not likely to be large because large companies have burdensome regulations [SEC in financial industry, HIPAA in healthcare industry, SarbOx for all public companies] that generally require (or imply that) employee communication and web usage should be monitored. And large companies are the interesting ones for overhear.us, because they have the most interesting networks and stories!
  - myoung8 19y ago
    And also provide the least chance of getting caught. Yeah, I know it's anonymous, but at a small company "anonymous" doesn't mean much. It's not hard to figure out who's dissatisfied, who's the gossip queen/king, or even figure things out just by the way someone writes.
  - owinebar 19y ago
    Management at big companies is good at beating the ambition out of their employees.

by zangief 19y ago

socmoth 19y ago

and gmail is hardly a success at all.

danielha 19y ago

I hardly think Gmail can be called a victim. Blocked? Use it elsewhere -- gossip doesn't run dry outside the workplace.

pg 19y ago

They thought of this. In that case people will use it from home. And if they're working for the kind of company that would block Overhear.Us, then there will probably be a lot they need to talk about.

zangief 19y ago
People are lazy. And people at big companies, where web-blocking software is routinely deployed, are especially lazy. Standard Bayes. Vault.com, despite not having nearly as nice a site as overhear.us, had reams of traffic and posts about individual employers, until it got blacklisted. I can imagine this site having a good following with companies that are not strict about the web-filtering list [which I abhor, btw]. However, those companies are not likely to be large because large companies have burdensome regulations [SEC in financial industry, HIPAA in healthcare industry, SarbOx for all public companies] that generally require (or imply that) employee communication and web usage should be monitored. And large companies are the interesting ones for overhear.us, because they have the most interesting networks and stories!
- myoung8 19y ago
  And also provide the least chance of getting caught. Yeah, I know it's anonymous, but at a small company "anonymous" doesn't mean much. It's not hard to figure out who's dissatisfied, who's the gossip queen/king, or even figure things out just by the way someone writes.
- owinebar 19y ago
  Management at big companies is good at beating the ambition out of their employees.