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A social network centred around libel? Sounds like a great idea.

Surprisingly, I was able to find the first person I searched for. However, all of his reviews were very negative, and pretty far from the truth.

I tried to use the categories to find more people, but they're sorted alphabetically, with no option to narrow it down to a city, or anything else. I don't really care to blindly search through 25000 professors.

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It's not centered around libel, at all. There's only a very small percentage of 1 star reviews, less than 2%, and most of them make their point without being rude or hateful.

Anything that seems hateful, defamatory or gossip-like gets censored from public view and hidden from the search engines.

Thanks for the feedback about the categories. I'm working on allowing people to narrow down categories like you described.

I'm open to any suggestions you may have that would make it seem less "centered around libel" - I thought I was doing a good job with it already, but maybe not.

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