somerandomness

Agreed, MV makes more sense than MTV

This actually never affected Thinkpads.

Spammers actually still make money if the spam lands in the spam folder, because people still look at it.

Also, believe it or not, there are actually people who buy things advertised in the spam folder and get legit product.

There is a preponderance of evidence for African origins of Man.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recent_African_origin_of_modern...

It's about as controversial in the scientific community as global warming.

What other accounts would you be comfortable associating with this trust profile? Would you hook up your GitHub?

Thanks for the suggestion. Yes, this is a common tactic that scammers on eBay do. I will work on mitigating this form of abuse.

Good point. The scoring is going to be continuously tweaked as more data is collected. It may be the case that your dating behavior is irrelevant to your Craigslist behavior, or it could be a useful signal. The scoring will adjust according to the data.

Very good points about user friction, which should be minimized. The plan is to make adding information from you accounts MUCH easier. Stay tuned.

Thanks for the feedback. I plan on adding other ways of signing-up to serve the folks without an FB account.

Even if you don't have a lot of friends, you can still collect feedback and add badges, which will increase your score. The social aspect is just one component.

Regarding fake reviews, I have a background in Spam and Abuse. I look forward to tackling the fake reviews/users. Unhelpful reviews will be ignored and removed.

Regarding the algorithm, that will be continuously tweaked based on feedback.

Thanks for the feedback. I plan on adding other forms of login in the future; Facebook just has the largest user base.

Thanks for the feedback. In this case, the target clients are regular users, not companies. Craigslist doesn't need to share any of their data for this to be useful to Craigslist users.

"Whether someone commits sexual harassment on OkCupid doesn't matter when you are trying to buy their toaster on eBay."

You can choose to ignore this information, but for some users it may be a relevant signal. I personally would rather buy a toaster off of non-sexual-harassers. Also, perhaps there will be less harassment if there were consequences, i.e. a worse online reputation.

Thanks. Python App Engine with AngularJS.

The idea is to have a central place on the web to store user reputation and reviews across many sites. You should be able to have one reputation (Trust Score) for all sites and not have to re-build it for every eBay or AirBnB. Further, a lot of sites like Craigslist or OKCupid don’t even have reputation systems, but could benefit from one.

I consider this a minimal viable product and plan on adding a lot of features, but would like to get some early feedback. Thanks in advance.

what do interviewers get out of it if they don't get paid? Are they employees?

It is obviously Google.

surprisingly accurate portrayal of SV, and hilarious

It's feasible if the target didn't use Gmail.

it wasn't actually hosted on a .google.com domain. It was googledrive.com, which is also owned by Google, but you should never expect a login form on that domain.