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I'm kind of OOTL. What's wrong with GlassDoor?
The purpose of the site is for employees to rate their employers anonymously, to alert fellow workers to poor conditions. For the site to reveal names means employers can now use glassdoor to know which employees say bad things about them, and can retaliate. It's a major dick move.
Oh, that's what they meant by "identifying users"!
Sorry about that. My brain knew all that, but just didn't connect the data points together. Lol. xD
That’s absolutely not what it means. They are identifying users in their private profile data, not publicly along with your reviews.
I mean, to be fair, if it's a private profile, then theoretically the only ones (besides the company of course) that would see it would be the user. But the user already knows their own name, obviously. Which means this wouldn't be as private a thing as it used to be, because why would the company spend time, personnel, and money developing a new aspect of the software for the site just to provide info that they and the user already would know.
Unless of course there's something I'm still misunderstanding. Which, mind you, is definitely a possibility knowing me. Please correct me if it is indeed the case.
Yeah they’ve absolutely made a change, and there are legitimate concerns about them having the data, and their vulnerability to a hack that might leak it for example.
I’m only trying to correct the idea that everybody’s public reviews now have their name attached to it.
Ah. Fair enough. 👍
Did you read the article? That isn’t what’s happening. I can understand your confusion because of the provocative and misleading article title, but they’re adding names to your private profile.
This is correct.
However, having that information tied to your account at all is a little problematic, as you can only leak the data you have. No name? Can't leak it.
And did you bother reading the other comments? You wrote this one 18 hours ago, and 22 hours ago, just below I wrote "... so I couldn’t be arsed to read the article before getting up."
I'm going to assume you didn't. Here's a link so you can get caught up.
…did you think that comment was directed to you? That’s strange since I responded to someone else. Take a deep breath and read it again bud.
Here’s a link if you need help: Link
You're right. I did think that. And I was wrong. I apologize.
They added real names without consent. No further action required. Opens people to litigation from petty former companies with too much money (generally the ones that need those reviews).
The whole point of it was that it was anonymous, without that, why would anyone ever post anything to it?
It's literally all in the article...
They're de-anonymizing all accounts so I hope you're okay with your reviews having your real name. Whether you have Glassdoor your name or not - Fishbowl using data lists to fill your data regardless of your consent.
Seems like you didn’t read the article either. That isn’t what’s happening. I can understand your confusion because of the provocative and misleading article title, but they’re adding names to your private profile, not adding them to your reviews.
I was five minutes away from clocking out for the day, so I couldn't be arsed to read the article before getting up. Lol. Serves me right for being lazy, I guess. :)
Sorry just meant there is no prior knowledge required. It's not an ongoing issue of enshittification or anything. Just a sudden leap forward, or rather Dump/Plop..
It's in the title. And the article.
The title is misleading and it seems as though nobody actually read the article. Your name is not being posted with your reviews.
But they will add your name to your profile without your consent, and then in the future they could easily share your identity and there would be nothing you could do about it.
It's a valid concern. The whole premise of the site kind of demands anonymity.
Not disputing that it’s a concern at all, and the way they went about it is super shady. It’s just that the implication in the headline is so so much worse than that.
When has anyone ever read the article? Even the author doesn't bother anymore, it's all about headlines baby.
But thank you for running around the comments trying to correct this literal ball of misinformation.