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Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent (arstechnica.com)

submitted 8 months ago by purrtastic@lemmy.nz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 266 points 8 months ago (5 children)

I just went in and manually edited my display name to my previous asshole of a boss. Two can play this game. If they want to get rid of anonymous content, then let them deal with poisoned content.

[–] _sideffect@lemmy.world 47 points 8 months ago

😂 Awesome

[–] QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 43 points 8 months ago

Oh shit, that’s good.

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.world 32 points 8 months ago

This is the way

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 25 points 8 months ago

I put a review up for my previous employer a while back. My whole profile uses fake data. Even in my review, since it would be very obvious who I was, I was light on details and generalized as much as I could and used false dates for when I was hired/left.

[–] Wooki@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

This screams liability protection, your name change is both logged so they can transfer liability to you.

Reputation slander and damages can get astronomical

[–] cophater69@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

No one can afford a lawsuit that hacky.

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Uh, reminder that these giant corporations don't shop for lawyers like you or I would have to, they're already on retainer. It would literally cost them nothing they're not already paying to sue someone (except their reputation, which they've already thrown away).

[–] cophater69@lemm.ee 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Right, but you're not talking about Glass Door. You're talking about another cooperation reacting to information on Glass Door. Most companies in the US are small businesses without the resources to go after people on websites in general, and if you're obfuscated your identity before posting on glassdoor, then you just double to tripled the price of the lawsuit in lawyer time filing motions to uncover your identity.

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

You're talking about another cooperation reacting to information on Glass Door.

by wanting to take legal action. They want to transfer liability from Glass Door to the individual. So yes, my point stands...