Comment by joe_the_user | Hacker News Reader

Comment by joe_the_user | Hacker News Reader

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You are the creator of this "cubeduel" thing?!??

Wow... hadn't seen it, glad it stopped here or least hoping it did...

I really couldn't imagine a more pernicious effort to poison already strained interpersonal relations in America if I tried.

I don't think your project is illegal but it is clearly, morally, reprehensible. You should be ashamed of yourself. What you are doing is a "bad thing" - on a pretty high scale of "bad thing".

A while back yummyfajitas asked how Wikileaks would be judged if someone died because of their revelations. Can I ask you the same question? What would you do if one coworker initiated violence against another because of your rating site? What?

Not only do I want this to fail but I think it should rebound on your other projects ... hard. I don't quote The-Jesus much here but here, "Judge not, that ye be not judged" comes very much to my mind.

Seriously, this is so bad that you need to take it down NOW and apologize.

you provided more condemnation than analysis. In my reading of the Book, He reached out to people as an educator and provided guidance about a path that offers help to people that followed other ways. Do you see the irony in your quote?

Sorry, the analysis seemed rather clear. Offering people a chance to fight arena-style fights against their fellows is rather unscrupulous to say the least. Do you defend doing this?

Taking down the site and apologizing seems like a pretty clear guidance to ending the problem. What else would you suggest?

Does your reading of the bible or religious texts support sites like 'cubeduel'?

The point is also don't judge unless you want to expose yourself to judgment. I don't mind being judged for condemning this 'cubeduel'. Who wants to judged for supporting it?

One has an obligation to speak out against despicable acts. Do you think this is something other than that?

I agree with you 100% and am willing to take the down votes. This is extremely obnoxious and I would think that LinkedIn is afraid that people will leave the site in droves if this is allowed to continue...

I suspect I've got plenty of supporters. The number of down votes is ... interesting. But I'm not terribly concerned.

I second that. the next thing you will do is probably ask your mom to rank you against your brothers.

"Judge not, that ye be not judged"

God, that is an ironic choice in phrase on your part.

Lots of workplaces have anonymous co-worker feedback and ratings. I actually think that's GOOD-- people have fairly little sense of what their peers think of them.

That aside, I'll address your specific concerns with cubeduel (though from your comment, I'm not sure you actually understand how the system works). Votes are anonymous. And because people are voting between two people, a "down vote" isn't really damning-- it just means that someone out there would rather work with a person more than you.

We also suppress duel data for anyone who has lost 60% or more of their duels (they show exactly like folks who don't have enough votes to calculate). So the worst that someone could experience is a feeling that, when set next to some number of random co-workers, people choose the "someone else" 60% of the time. If someone initiated violence based on that (against who? All their coworkers?), they'd have a 40% chance of hurting someone who voted FOR them at least once. I'd be sad if such a thing happened-- but not guilty.

And, of course, people can nuke their account at any time-- no harm, no foul.

I don't really grok your viewpoint at all (seems like most people don't either), but we've done our best to minimize the "mean" aspects and call attention to the stars. For what it's worth, it's growing and folks seem to like it ( http://twitter.com/#!/search/cubeduel).

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