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I'm thinking about making a website that lists all dark patterns and user experience fudges of a given service/app/website so that we users/customers can better
by lone_haxx0r 7y ago
I'm thinking about making a website that lists all dark patterns and user experience fudges of a given service/app/website so that we users/customers can better choose where our time/money is going.
Users would be able to complain about: Phantom credit card charges, captcha walls, requiring cellphone verification, random account termination, etc.
What do you think about it? I think it's really susceptible to astroturfing, but maybe there's a way to fix that.
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- QuadmasterXLII 7y agoIf I grabbed 50 friends and we all posted identical and untrue complaints on your website, stating that you randomly deleted our accounts, would you delete our accounts?
- lone_haxx0r 7y agoNot those accounts specifically. Maybe I would have to implement a system that deletes accounts automatically when comments are identical. It's unlikely though, because I prefer to err on the side of deregulation and would not like to delete accounts, even if I'm 90% sure that those accounts are bots. I presume innocence until proven guilty (where guilty: breaking the site rules). It's impossible for me to know what complaints are true and which aren't for every complaint in the site, so I wouldn't delete any of them based solely on their truth value. I wouldn't even delete those that I know are false. It's all imagination though, I don't know if I'm ever going to create the site. I just wanted to gauge interest and maybe receive some criticism.