[johnneville]

there was a startup called People in 2015 which wanted to do this but people reacted quite negatively and they shut it down. there's certainly already siloed versions of this such as your banking credit score, or your uber user rating, or your hackernews "karma" etc. and i think people react more positively to these sorts of ratings compared with an overall rating that applies to all aspects of your behavior

context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peeple_(app)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_System

[bruhmanfiflo]

I've noticed this. People tend to be fine with and even invite these scoring systems in isolation but as a whole people cringe. If it's good to know if an uber driver or door dasher is good at their job, why is it bad to know if someone is a good/bad actor in other parts of their lives?

[johnneville]

it might be cultural but i think a big factor of the reaction to these in the US is the ability to start over or get a second chance. i can always make a new yelp account. if i get a bad score on uber eats, i usually have an alternative option like door dash if i can't make a second account on the initial platform.

[bruhmanfiflo]

hmm, that's a good point. I've seen doordashers using a girlfriends/boyfriends account and I always think to myself, "they must have gotten THEIR account banned"