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Quote:An upcoming app called Peeple will allegedly allow users to rate everyone they know -- sort of like a Yelp for reviewing human beings. Its founders say they want to "spread love and positivity."

That claim has "Last Week Tonight" host John Oliver wondering if they've ever been on the Internet.

"The Internet is a faucet that dispenses hate, racism and the occasional sad orgasm," Oliver said on Sunday night's show.

"The Internet essentially exists so people can say vicious things about each other," Oliver said. "We don't need another app to facilitate that. What we need is something which helps stop people from getting hurt."

So Oliver and his team launched a website called Scream Into The Void, which allows people to write hateful things without consequences.

"You simply type whatever awful thing you're thinking, hit the button at the bottom of the page and the message will be deleted forever," Oliver said. "It's brilliant."

I've been screaming into the void for years, now I can do it online

http://screamintothevoid.com/

Looks like the people at Peeple have changed things, maybe they should have just binned the stupid fucking thing

Quote:Peeple, the controversial app that promised to let users “review” other people and give them a rating out of five, has softened its offering just weeks before its planned launch.

The company had previously scheduled the launch of the new social app, dubbed “Yelp for people”, for November this year. Revealed in early October, the app promised users the ability to “revolutionise the way we’re seen in the world through our relationships”.

Users could assign a star rating and feedback to anyone they knew, positive or negative, and the ratee could do very little about it. Every negative review would have been live for at least 48 hours, and in order to remove them, an individual would be encouraged to contest a negative review, leading to accusations that the app would become a libellous quagmire and a harasser’s dream.

Following the criticism, Peeple’s website and social media feeds were blanked out, leading to speculation that the app was never going to see the light of day – or even that the whole thing was a hoax. But instead, it looks like it’s still on-track to launch, even earlier than expected: the new website gives a date of 12 October for the app’s release.

But according to a posting on LinkedIn from the app’s developer, a former recruitment executive named Julia Cordray, the app that hit stores might be less controversial than what was previously announced: “You will NOT be on our platform without your explicit permission. There is no 48-hour waiting period to remove negative comments. There is no way to even make negative comments. Simply stated, if you don’t explicitly say ‘approve recommendation’, it will not be visible on our platform.”

The new direction leaves the app having more in common with purely positive ranking apps such as Klout and LinkedIn itself.

They are claiming someone doctored this

Even blocks of Flats in Glasgow are hard 2 survived demolition by Explosives

This journalist must have waited his entire life to write this headline......

Not a "funny" story as such but well worth sharing.....

No words necessary.......

Should have bought her the llama or the alpaca.....