It seems like the ultimate way to show WHY and HOW a company is poorly run… or the inverse.

  • themeatbridge
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    1 month ago

    Literally every company would be review-bombed, because as soon as Company X gets a few bad reviews, they will bomb Competitor Y, and it snowballs from there. The best companies will be the ones that have the most employees paid to post reviews.

    But yeah, let’s do that. Users should learn to separate fact from fiction.

    • @Lemming6969
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      81 month ago

      All W2s should come with an anonymous review sheet, but you still need a centralized validator.

      • themeatbridge
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        41 month ago

        The problem is validating someone’s review without revealing who wrote it. Reviewers can be pressured or paid to lie if they are not anonymous, but anyone can leave any review if they are anonymous.

        • @Lemming6969
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          21 month ago

          I believe it should be possible to use cryptography to have the validator provide a key to the reviewer, and for the reviewer to sign the review with their key and the validator key, in such a way that a validator can validate a signed message used their key so is valid, but cannot know which reviewer it was. See Yang et. al. 2006 anonymous signature schemes in public key cryptography journal.

          • themeatbridge
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            11 month ago

            Of course that’s possible, but it wouldn’t be free. At some point, the person would need to be validated and assigned a private key that’s tied to their identity. That’s the hard part, the time consuming step. And the more automated it is, the easier it would be to spoof and lie.