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Generally, if you have to obfuscate the thing you want to post because you need to avoid a filter, it's unlikely that what you're posting is welcome in the place you're trying to post it.
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This is a non-story. TripAdvisor has been doing this for years as it is a violation of their policies. Rapes and assaults are not considered family friendly and will be removed from the site.
Here's the specific part of the policy:
Family-Friendly
To maintain a safe, family-friendly environment, we don’t allow profanity or vulgarities in reviews. We also reject reviews that include sexually explicit comments, hate speech, prejudiced language, threats, or personal insults. So keep it PG-13! Any reviews that describe reviewer participation in illegal activities, including those that advocate or describe drug use in defiance of local laws, will be removed.
> Any reviews that describe reviewer participation in illegal activities ... will be removed.
As bleak a reading of that clause that this is, you can say if you are the victim of an assault you were a participant in that event participant (albeit an unwilling one), and the review must be removed.
You may not like it - but thats how TripAdvisor has always interpreted the policy. Specifically, sexual assaults have always been considered not family friendly. They are removed from the site and referred directly to the hotel for investigation. (disclosure: I worked there from 2010-2013, including a short rotation in the content moderation arm that makes these calls)
My broader point was simply that this isn't a new interpretation of this policy, they've been doing this for years.
It's not a non-story, in the context of the general population. It's part of that population learning that "social media lie" -- even when, perhaps even especially when, the lie is one of omission.
And as to whether comments on a commercial site constitute "social media"? Again, average users don't make that distinction. And the major "social" media" sites are all commercial sites, even if their business model is somewhat different.
An alternative way to approach this, which the author of the article could also consider, is how might we, as technologists, build companies that help solve this problem?
For example, our country will have 3.5 M truckers (the most common profession in the US and in 46 of the 50 US States) out of jobs within 10 years due to automated trucking.
Option A: We cheer at the success of the automated trucking industry and ignore the impact (the 19th century robber barron approach)
Option B: We say "government clean up our mess" (the 21st century liberal approach)
Option C: We build companies, or organizations, that educate and employ those out of work truckers. (??)
Assuming we care about time periods longer than tomorrow, we cannot ignore the societal impacts of the companies and products we build. These cultural externalities are real; similar to the environmental externalities of the industrial revolution.
Its time for the entire tech community to decide what role our industry will play in society. We have a choice about if we want to be part of the solution - or just ignore it and wait for the coming societal chaos.
Educate them to do... what, exactly? What could Uber do with two million mostly-uneducated truck drivers that are scattered all through out the country? Most do not want to move, do not have the patience/desire/grit to go through long retraining periods for a vastly different job, and are currently making something in the neighborhood of $55K/yr. How could any company possibly be expected to help that large a workforce not take a dip in its standard of living, when literally the only skill they have is about to become nearly worthless? And how could you do it while still upholding your fiduciary responsibilities to your shareholders?
Agreed. This strikes me as the kind of thing that requires a government solution. Perhaps it means we should get our hands dirty (but not in that way!) and enter politics. As nice as it would be to solve problems doing what I am already good at and what I already like to do, sometimes a hammer isn't enough...
I think they expected what they've had. Some solid apps that converted over immediately and then increasing adoption from the iOS development community over time. This adoption curve probably looks similar to the consumer adoption curve of the new device.
FWIW, we've had a lot of success with our IAP driven app @ Craftsy. Apple TV revenues are definitely not the size of iPad or iPhone yet, but are promising.
A bit off topic, but have you guys thought about breaking out into electronics classes? I bought a photography class and thought it was quite a nice learning platform. I'd love to learn an Arduino or Rasberry Pi project on it.
Tl;DR James Altucher is a self-promoting jackass. This we've known for a long time. If you ready a paragraph from any of his work, you'll see this very quickly.
We've noticed a number of posts (on HN and elsewhere) from iOS developers concerned about iOS8 - and more specifically the new iPhone screen sizes and their impact on the asset creation/delivery/storage problem.
This is our solution from @Craftsy. It's been working great for us for months now and has lots of benefits beyond not breaking on new screen sizes/resolutions. We'd love to hear from other teams who are doing it similar/differently/better. This is definitely not perfect but as we said in the post, solves a lot of the potential problems.
We've been using Lookback for internal testing on our upcoming iOS release @ Craftsy. It's been super helpful. We're hoping to do some user testing with it over the next few weeks as well. Great service guys, congrats on the continued growth.
Interesting to note that this is where TripAdvisor initially started. It turned out its really hard to scale this 1) globally and 2) efficiently and thats where UGC came into play.
Question on the trust factor: Why should a user trust "professional" reviews over the collective opinion of the crowds? Professionals can never experience everything, so will be working from a smaller knowledge base to start and are probably more corruptible than 150 MM people or wherever TripAdvisor is these days.
1) up to 40% of user hotel reviews are fake, 2) users rarely visit more than 1 hotel per city so have no basis for comparison, whereas experts (presumably) visit multiple hotels in each city, 3) users tend to post reviews after having a 'marginal experience' that isn't really all that applicable to other users.
I think they should consider putting these 3 points on the main page as it was the first question I had when I visited.
If you are interested in helping to understand and be part of solving this issue, come join us at Guild Education in Denver. We're a venture backed B-corporation working to connect the future of work with (company funded) education opportunities - from the skilled trades + nursing to data scientists.
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