ChrisHerbert

Also, regarding "armchair vigilantism" - I am really trying to be careful to only use reputable publications as sources, and to not be judgmental about who I include. Some of the accusations are quite shaky, but if they were made publicly and/or covered by mainstream media, I included them. I'm trying not to bring my own person judgment into it because it's not about that.

It's certainly a work in progress, and so far I've given less attention to the better known alleged perps. I don't even have Brett Ratner on there yet.

I've also thought about rating or categorizing the allegations in a more systematic way, but it would be difficult to do well. Any sort of rating system seems like it could be easy to mess up. Point taken about Weinstein or Cosby being at the same level as, say, Ben Affleck. Perhaps grouping them by ranges of accusers would work (eg, "1," "2-5", "6-10", "10+").

One possible feature could be whether someone was convicted of an offense. That should be pretty straightforward and wouldn't involve any editorializing.

I've been concerned about the amount of author and commenter information that the REST API exposes by default in 4.7+, and this site is an attempt to illustrate how serious it can be.

Nothing here is new - people have been talking about the privacy implications of Gravatar for nearly a decade, and the amount of data exposed by the REST API has been pretty controversial. I thought that a easy-to-use tool showing just how easy it is to reveal this information would be educational and, hopefully, a little scary.