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This site has to be the worst idea of the year.

Not only can any Joe-shmoe post totally fabricated information anonimously, but it's also considered to be fact until it's democratically proven otherwise. I'm curious when it was decided that the truth is decided by voting. The truth is not tangable in that sense. It's not what any self-proclaimed expert says it is. Besides, what's to stop the company that's being called-out from anonymously posting a more compelling, but false, response. If the only 2 people that have the facts are telling you different things, that's for a court of justice to decide which is lying, not the general public.

On top of that, if they expect the general public to do the research for them to validate the mis-information, they should try watching the news. The general public couldn't care less if it's true as long as it's entertaining. Paid professionals (the media) can't even properly validate information so I can't say I'd trust anyone posting anything on that site for either side.

Above all of that, who's their target audience? The police? What's the goal? For un-empowered people to find out bad things about empowered people? Without having some kind of structured response to the whistle-blowing, it's pretty much pointless. It's like yelling for help on a deserted island.

However cool it sounds, I hope a million people post a million useless docuements on their site and nobody reads any of them.
But then again, MySpace has a million useless, un-entertaining pages of crap and millions of people read it every day. I can still dream.

Posted by: FatherJ   Posted on: 02/07/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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