[sergiotapia]

I can see why they deleted it, it's extremely cringey.

[waterlesscloud]

I think their post (also now deleted) inferring a connection between welfare checks and spikes in prostitution might have been even more cringey.

https://web.archive.org/web/20140827195709/http://blog.uber....

Note that both of these posts had been up for years and only disappeared in the last few days.

[karissa]

even more cringey is the original title of the post which you can see in the url:

"uberdata-how-prostitution-and-alcohol-make-uber-better/"

[JeremyMorgan]

Someone signed up at reputation.com

[bmm6o]

What's strange to me about that one is the results aren't drawn from Uber data at all. It's just crime statistics broken down by day.

[wtbob]

Cringey, or true?

[potatolicious]

It can be both, like the annoying coworker who won't shut up about how much sex he had over the weekend, or the guy who raves about his favorite scotch at an AA meeting.

A correct observation does not shield it from being inappropriate or in poor taste.

[clarkm]

Why? Do you find OkCupid's blog posts cringey too?

[mikeash]

Sex is OkCupid's business, while it's not Uber's business. And yes, a lot of people find fault with their blog posts too. You'll see lots of comments like that on any related HN submission.

[roywiggins]

I never minded OkCupid because it's sort of a game anyway. It's all online, and whether you meet someone there or not is up to you to tell OkCupid.

Uber is mining information about people's movements in the real world, which feels ickier.

[cbd1984]

Is it cringey because of the data they present, or because of the conclusions they draw from that data?

[eli]

I think probably the language and tone of the post more than either the data or the conclusions.

[cbd1984]

Interesting. In the more socially-aware fora I'm familiar with, what's called "tone policing" or "tone trolling" is seen as a major faux pas, an aggressive act designed to shut people out of the conversation.

[eli]

Don't mean to offend anyone, but I think tone is usually the cause for something sounding "cringey"

[wutbrodo]

Are you implying you agree with that? I always thought that accusations of tone policing was the most childish thing about that kind of forum/community.

[craigvn]

And possibly trying to whitewash their history.