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How would you prevent would be developers from simply 'playing' the rating system on your hypothetical Angie's list for developers?
by shiftpgdn 13y ago
How would you prevent would be developers from simply 'playing' the rating system on your hypothetical Angie's list for developers?
- cdolan92 13y agoI presume you mean self-promotion/self-upVoting when you say 'playing'? I think the solution is somewhat similar to how google became a success - build off of reputable links. Employers must link to their personal LinkedIn pages, company websites, an online record that they are who they say they are (either a D-U-N-S repository, or an incorporation document, etc etc). Yes, it can be spoofed - but if someone leaves either a glowing or awful review, you at least can look them up. Likewise for freelancers. Many have profiles around the web, but it can be a struggle to find enough for a third party 'character check' - for instance, Salesforce Developers are in the AppExchange network, or the Force.com boards... I'm sure a ruby developer is in a completely different space! In a certain sense, this needs to be a yelp for developers - reviews are valued and sought after. Bad reviews are feared, and its a somewhat ubiquitous place to find information on developers in a variety of spaces (Ruby,PHP,Salesforce,Obj-C,Java...)