[xwdv]

> Suffice to say I will not be using GlassDoor in the future

You’ll cave eventually, they know this.

[recursive]

How can you be so sure? I've never used it in my life, and I don't even have a particular motivation not to.

[cyanydeez]

This dark pattern is meant to generate useful data

[DJHenk]

> You’ll cave eventually, they know this.

I caved in years ago and registered. Only to find out that the site was still horribly broken and it was impossible to get any information out of it. Truly a 'Fuck You' pattern.

[acover]

Caving into lying? That just pollutes their database.

[xwdv]

It’s fairly trivial to detect bad data, especially when you know what good data looks like. And once you’re in, they can still get useful data even if you lied.

[acover]

That's surprising. How do you trivially detect bad data? (Beyond extreme examples like below minimum wage)

Even when you know the true distribution (in which case why ask for more data) you can only remove outliers. But outliers exist.

There are techniques for when someone enters many numbers but I don't know any for 1 number.

[flangola7]

For one, how carefully did the user input information into fields. If you're making it up, it will be much faster and less hesitant than a legitimate entry.

That and a hundred other data points help create a ML model that reliability identifies illegitimate activity.

[acover]

Cool! That actually exists, more or less: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-20462-6