[HN Gopher] The dirty work of cleaning online reputations ___________________________________________________________________ The dirty work of cleaning online reputations Author : bookofjoe Score : 38 points Date : 2022-01-06 22:28 UTC (1 days ago) (HTM) web link (thewalrus.ca) (TXT) w3m dump (thewalrus.ca) | headcanon wrote: | I liked the approach in one of Neal Stephenson's books [1], where | instead of trying to remove negative stuff said about a person, | they flooded the internet with the most vile stuff they could | come up with, to the extent that people stopped taking it | seriously and moved on. | | Kind of like letting a fire consume all the oxygen out of a room | instead of trying to put it out. | | 1: https://www.nealstephenson.com/fall,-or-dodge-in-hell.html | rapind wrote: | We'll we're already doing that, except not necessarily vile but | in aggregate filling it up with useless information. | | Between SEO spam, content marketing, outrage news, and | reputation fixers, we're well on the way to destroying the web | at least as we used to know it. | nullc wrote: | Then the next section of the book is about the fracturing of | civilization as a result of inconsistent disinformation | everyone was being flooded with... | belter wrote: | Surely there must be services that do the opposite? | | Make people believe that you use nano instead of vim, that you | created the nth Javascript framework...And that you are the one | accumulating Rust empty crates? | ojbyrne wrote: | I worked for reputation.com a while back, and I find it amusing | that they don't own reputation.ca. It reflects poorly on their | reputation. | andrei_says_ wrote: | As an insider - what are the steps a reputation company takes | to "clean" someone's reputation? | | Anything beyond new publications to replace undesirable old | ones, SEO, social media posts? | Scoundreller wrote: | I'd add to the list: requests submitted under various "right | to be forgotten" legislation. Particularly EU. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-01-07 23:00 UTC)