Did you read the article? That isn’t what’s happening.
Comment on Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent
morphballganon@lemmy.world 6 months agoThe purpose of the site is for employees to rate their employers anonymously, to alert fellow workers to poor conditions. For the site to reveal names means employers can now use glassdoor to know which employees say bad things about them, and can retaliate. It’s a major dick move.
ieatpillowtags@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Bangs42@lemmy.world 6 months ago
This is correct.
However, having that information tied to your account at all is a little problematic, as you can only leak the data you have. No name? Can’t leak it.
MewtwoLikesMemes@lemmy.world 6 months ago
And did you bother reading the other comments? You wrote this one 18 hours ago, and 22 hours ago, just below I wrote “… so I couldn’t be arsed to read the article before getting up.”
I’m going to assume you didn’t.
ieatpillowtags@lemm.ee 6 months ago
…did you think that comment was directed to you? That’s strange since I responded to someone else. Take a deep breath and read it again bud.
MewtwoLikesMemes@lemmy.world 6 months ago
You’re right. I did think that. And I was wrong. I apologize.
MewtwoLikesMemes@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Oh, that’s what they meant by “identifying users”!
Sorry about that. My brain knew all that, but just didn’t connect the data points together. Lol. xD
ieatpillowtags@lemm.ee 6 months ago
That’s absolutely not what it means. They are identifying users in their private profile data, not publicly along with your reviews.
MewtwoLikesMemes@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I mean, to be fair, if it’s a private profile, then theoretically the only ones (besides the company of course) that would see it would be the user. But the user already knows their own name, obviously. Which means this wouldn’t be as private a thing as it used to be, because why would the company spend time, personnel, and money developing a new aspect of the software for the site just to provide info that they and the user already would know.
Unless of course there’s something I’m still misunderstanding. Which, mind you, is definitely a possibility knowing me. Please correct me if it is indeed the case.
ieatpillowtags@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Yeah they’ve absolutely made a change, and there are legitimate concerns about them having the data, and their vulnerability to a hack that might leak it for example.
I’m only trying to correct the idea that everybody’s public reviews now have their name attached to it.