I'd like anyone who is tempted to launch a product like this to read a couple of books on the subject of anonymous denunciations and their consequences throughout history, or even just a couple of Wikipedia articles.
I think they know, it's the power of such things they want to control for their own purposes (even if just to sell) that draws them to it.
I know some folks who work on "reputation" type services that try to evaluate people based on a litany of factors and data points and then try to sell that data to others as sort of alternative background checks.
They're so desperate for data points they'll just scrape basic google searches, any social media, etc. It's all opaque, I suspect very random, they know and do not care as they know the value of possibly being in a dominant position for such things.
I guess there is a connection there although I feel like my importance as "random dude on the internet saying something about non specific company or companies" here probabbly has little risk / impact compared to what these companies could do.
> Sistrunk reads all reviews before they are published and verifies each author’s email address to make sure it’s not being reused to submit reviews for the same station more than once.
Sounds like they're partially vetted, to at least prevent sockpuppeting and Sybil attacks and the like.
