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In 2016 I left a very scathing, and very truthful, of my current employer on Glassdoor a couple of weeks before deciding to quit. Two weeks later, Glassdoor sen
by nebezb 4y ago
In 2016 I left a very scathing, and very truthful, of my current employer on Glassdoor a couple of weeks before deciding to quit. Two weeks later, Glassdoor sends me an email notifying me that the employer is pursuing legal action and I have two options: 1) delete the review, or 2) stand by the review if it's true and, when it comes down to it, my identity may need to be revealed in court when necessary. That was my catalyst to quit.
I stood by the review and Glassdoor notified me that the employer pulled back on the legal action. My review is still there. And Glassdoor did their best to not reveal my identity under the threat of legal action -- not until absolutely necessary.
- exodust 4y agoDoes Glassdoor require verified ID or something to sign up? Why don't people simply use a VPN and appropriate email to sign up and leave reviews?
- heavyset_go 4y agoTry to register an email address using a host that won't have you flagged as a malicious user should you use an account with that host to sign up for major company's services like Glassdoor. It's virtually impossible to use Tor to register an email address without activating JavaScript, and the email hosts that allow it are very sketchy, and my personal suspicions are that many of them are blatant honeypots.
- yieldcrv 4y agoBoth Whonix and Tails are okay for the javascript attack vector. Only TorBrowser by itself got escaped via JS.
- yieldcrv 4y ago(even then I only sparingly allow browser javascript on Whonix or Tails)
- exodust 4y agoSorry what? It's trivial to get an email address from legit email provider, create alias addresses, then sign up to something like Glassdoor using VPN. The only thing Glassdoor will know about you is your email address, which is not easily traced back to your real ID if you don't want it to be. Particularly for low level "crime" like negative reviews.
- patrec 4y agoHow certain are you that in all jurisdictions where an (ex-)employer can get an injunction to force glassdoor to reveal the email address they wouldn't be able to get the legit email provider to reveal your true identity?
- exodust 4y agoDo you extend that to the VPN provider used to sign up to the email provider? How far should companies battle to reveal the sources of mean reviews? Why not simply reply to those reviews with a counterbalancing response? It's not a big deal. I don't condone making fake reviews out of spite, or whatever is claimed in this case, but chasing reviewers through court action is petty. One of the values on Zuru website is something about "think different" but what is thinking different about suing a negative reviewer? So much bragging over there on the zurutoys.co/about-us pages, they talk themselves up big time. No environmental statement that I can see btw, just how amazing they are. Should environmental policies start imposing limits on how many plastic fish fidget spinners the world needs? If less quantities are made, their rarity provides value on the used/recycled market. May mean less rooms in mansion for company heads. Better for planet though.
- throwaway744678 4y agoCreate a gmail address from your local McDonald's wifi?
- heavyset_go 4y agoIP addresses aren't the only way to identify a user. I also assume large free hotspot providers collect enough identifying information from their users for the purpose of aiding investigators and courts in identifying abuse of their networks. A subpoena could provide that info, and hotspot providers can choose to just hand over that info when requested.
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- andrewingram 4y agoI (somewhat unhealthily) keep an eye on Glassdoor reviews for old jobs. There was one that was both absolutely damning (about the CTO in particular), and almost completely factually accurate - the only inaccuracy I spotted was inconsequential to the overall message. I took a screenshot, it was gone a week later. To this day I don't know who wrote it, and whether they get scared into taking it down. But i've never trusted the anonymity of Glassdoor, which is why i've never personally left a review.
- esperent 4y agoThere are services for reddit that log removed comments and allow you to see what the mods have deleted. Just replace reddit.com with reveddit.com in the URL. It's not perfect but it allowed me to see that the mods of r/coffee are total weirdos, for example, who will remove any hint of a joke or even the faintest suggestion that someone owns a cafe (even when they don't mention the name). Why hasn't someone built a similar service for Glassdoor?