Friday, February 5, 2016

Airbnb, BlaBlaCar: the tyranny of the “note” – Le Monde

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Evaluation of systems of users on sharing sites create frustration and humiliation … and make some obsessive.



A man uses a computer at Seoul in February 2014.

Based on its assessment BlaBlaCar Olivier, occasional driver who wished to remain anonymous, is a doctor “really nice with super interesting conversations.” All passengers have made it a five-star driver except one. And it does not pass. “I am still very upset by this three-star. “ The proof that even in adulthood, bad grades are hard to live.

In any case it is observed by querying update sites users in contact on their assessments. “Okay, I had not made eggs for breakfast, but there were lots of different kinds of bread” , a renter ruminates about Airbnb critically old three years. “He wrote that the mattress was hard, I wrote to him that he could tell me when he was there … He has since deleted his comment,” does not digest more of a renter room on Homestay. Or: “They said it was ugly to us, then there just DVDs and books everywhere,” recalls a Parisian about a comment on Parisathome, a site that no longer exists, unlike the memory of the wrong note.

Christophe Duhamel, founder of recipes sharing site Marmiton recalls the launch of the site of online ready to withdraw their recipe when she was badly marked, considering “that was misunderstood genius” . Others were reluctant to post their own, for fear of a bad evaluation.

In a world of “serial likers” difficult …

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