Comments on: Divvs: Trust Through Networking

By: Mike Gale

Mike Gale — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:27:58 +0000

This sort of “rating” isn’t something I find very useful.

It kinda tries to say whether you actually exist, nothing about whether you are worth dealing with.

Need a better way to evaluate. It needs to be “my way” too!

By: Michael Ivey

Michael Ivey — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:06:15 +0000

@Michael Thompson: You can find me on the ‘net pretty easily…I break out in a cold sweat thinking about what would happen to *me* if we spammed people. :)

By: Michael Thompson

Michael Thompson — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:09:53 +0000

@Michael Ivey: Thanks for the response. I think this is a great idea, however I get nervous when I submit some of my main contact points into a pre-beta web service with little feedback.

I break into a cold sweat thinking of the spam potential. Figuratively. :)

By: Michael Ivey

Michael Ivey — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:56:51 +0000

@Michael Thompson: No, we aren’t doing it by hand, it just takes a little while (we’re still in alpha, although we’re in the process of going to our closed beta) … your rating is going now, should be done in 5 or 10 minutes. I’ll look into why your text message never arrived.

By: Michael Thompson

Michael Thompson — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:38:34 +0000

Their text message never arrived on my AT&T phone, and my rating processing has been at zero for the last fifteen minutes (with sporadic page reloads).

So far…fail.

“Our math geeks are working on your rating right now…” They aren’t calculating this by hand, are they? If so, super-epic fail.

What modern web service asks for a sh*t-load of personal information and then does…nothing?