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You're afraid people you know will be able to associate a review of a mobile app with you? Genuine question. I really cannot fathom why that would matter.
by benvd 14y ago
You're afraid people you know will be able to associate a review of a mobile app with you?
Genuine question. I really cannot fathom why that would matter.
- chokma 14y agoHealth applications - a review for an app which allows you to record you stool consistence (for Morbus Crohn) could negatively affect your chances for employment as well as open you to ridicule by others. "You gave AcmeFamilyPlanner 4/5 stars, Mrs Candidate - say, do you want to have a career or a family?" (Hm, of course this could help remove bad employers from your list of prospective work places ;) )
- jmillikin 14y ago> "You gave AcmeFamilyPlanner 4/5 stars, Mrs Candidate - > say, do you want to have a career or a family?" I am almost certain that questions like this are illegal in any nation a HN reader would want to work in.
- waterlesscloud 14y agoThe point is that the employer wouldn't even have to ask the question. The data is now public.
- avar 14y agoYou wouldn't ask that question, but use that information to disqualify the candidate before the interview. Just because you can't legally discriminate based on certain things doesn't mean people don't find ways to do so anyway.
- aggronn 14y agoOkay, thats one app. What about all the other innocuous apps you download?
- mhurron 14y agoPersonally I don't have, nor do I wish to have, a Google+ account. No reviews from me.
- sabret00the 14y agoI have one because a lot of tech people are on there and it's easy to get news I don't wanna subscribe to. But given that Google won't allow me to use my actual internet identity of ten years, I've merely got the account set up as a first name and an indistinguishable initial. Google have done a fantastic job in alienating me as a user. What's hilarious is that the name I want to use and wouldn't mind associating with my G+ reviews is the same name that I use on my email account. Google apparently doesn't care though, so no reviews from me either.
- Thrymr 14y agoWhy in the world would you want your review of a random mobile app publicly associated with you? I would rather just not bother posting a review.
- shawnz 14y agoBecause it gives weight to your opinion.
- ShirtlessRod 14y agoWriting a quality review should be all that is needed to add weight to your opinion. Why does it matter if I know it came from Tom Jones in Skokie, IL?
- binarycheese 14y agoBecause a lot of times "Tom Jones in Skokie, IL" is actually a competitor going around giving everyone else a negative review
- greyboy 14y agoCan such a competitor not create a "Tom Jones in Skokie, IL" Google+ (along with a myriad of other fake accounts) to achieve the same result? Or, is that to difficult for someone with those intentions? Edit: Also, "a lot" is a rather unhelpful metric.
- ShirtlessRod 14y agoMy point is that a good review (not necessarily a "positive" review) is a good review whether I know who gave it or not. Is a detailed review from an anonymous user giving something 2 stars somehow worth less than a one-liner review from a "known" user giving it 5 stars? That aside, as greyboy already points out, what is going to stop a competitor from creating a fake Google+ account to give that negative review? This move doesn't prevent that hypothetical from happening in any way.
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- jlarocco 14y agoOn the contrary, if it doesn't matter, why associate them?
- 27182818284 14y agoPolitics app. Sex app. Porn app. App about guns. Violent game app. Match.com or OKCupid app. Pretend you're a school teacher with a few malicious students that have access to Google. This exposes to them what you have privately on your phone, so you're no longer going to rate apps in the ecosystem.