Huh...

Part of these types of things generally seem like a well-intentioned idea, but it's also so creepy, scammy, and gross. This data won't stop here by any means, and will be sold or used in a million different even shittier ways. Pretty fucked.

It's fine, no reason to sell the data, the service was literally just breached!

“He’s a cheater,” Walker said, reading some of the comments on one post out loud.

"What clubs does he go to?" another person asked on a different post. "He’s cute."

That illustrates the big problem...

Some guys are lying assholes and horrible people, but so are some women.

It's not going to take long for them to get massively sued, there's no way they're vetting the posted info, and it's literally cyber bullying.

The guy (yes it's a guy) who made and owns this is a fucking idiot for not seeing the lawsuits coming.

yeah, well-intentioned things tend to go sour when exposed to the glow of anonymity on the internet. Starts off innocent, and goes downhill fast.

The creator, Sean, stating that he started this app as a reaction to the online dating scene his mother experienced, seems fine: an anti-catfishing app would be great.

To give the devil their due, the data they collect might also be valuable as data on how women discuss men online, which at a cursory glance seems to favor far more hyperbole than I see in everyday life.

Friendly reminder that Facebook started as FaceMash, an app for men at Harvard to rate the attractiveness of women.

Both are bad. At least these women are nominally using it for safety and not just looks rating.

Finally, I would be really darn cautious of using any app like FaceMash or Tea. Seems like a great way to get sued for defamation. Or to become the target of escalated behavior of one of the bad ones.

Don't these companies know how to properly configure a database? This seemed like it was completely preventable.

Some guys are lying assholes and horrible people, but so are some women.

and some guys anonymously posing as women online to undermine the competition.

Lol, reminds me of a different thread about trump pretending to be a woman and writing into newspapers:

“Based on the fact that I work for Donald Trump as his secretary—and therefore know him well—I think he treats women with great respect, contrary to what Julie Baumgold implied in her article … I do not believe any man in America gets more calls from women wanting to see him, meet him, or go out with him. The most beautiful women, the most successful women—all women love Donald Trump.”

Carolin Gallego December 7, 1992. (Not a realperson)

People are convinced Donald Trump wrote this letter bragging about Donald Trump

A letter from Donald Trump's alleged secretary is raising some eyebrows.

Mashable (mashable.com)

If I was going to make something like this, it would have to incorporate trust chains. I don't care if some maga-hat says this lady is horrible. I care if my good friend Alex says she's horrible. One person's "this person won't shut up about communism" is a big red flag (no pun intended) but for someone else that's the dream.

When you sign up, you'd need to be referred to someone or be a root node. Anyone connected to you can be weighted differently. If some section of the tree is misbehaving, prune it.

But that's a lot of work

JFC, as if this guy wasn't already the poster child for cringe.

Lots of breaches are entirely preventable, but lots of companies don't like to pay for qualified employees that could prevent them.

Intrusive permissions/data collection/sharing, including location.

This is a nightmare. Some mentally deficient vigilante with delusions of grandeur and a fist full of painkillers would use this as a hit list.
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Thank God we have the GDPR in Europe.

Founded by a man to enable women to redflag men?

What’s your bets the dude secretly hides posts about men he’s friends with etc?

I like where you're going with this!

I know one of the false electors from the 2020 election. They met their wife on Hot or Not.

There is no way this would get abused by threat actors and mentally unstable types!

Same thing should be done with product reviews, and social media comments, etc., etc.

Really if someone makes a robust way to have a trust chain that integrates into the Internet at large, that would prevent a whole universe of problems we have in modern society.