It is a bit surprising. I must have had at least 8 fake accounts there just to bash one of my ex-employers. Took a whole star off their rating.
Comment on Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
i genuinely cannot believe that people use their real info on these sites. Actually fucking stupid.
afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 9 months ago
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
damn, i love some good “business fraud”
capital@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Damn, I wonder what pushed them to start verifying ID?
blind3rdeye@lemm.ee 9 months ago
According to the article, people don’t use their real info on this site, but the site is making dubious inferences that allow them to pull the info from other sources to auto-populate the ‘real’ fields in their site.
rar@discuss.online 9 months ago
That’s even worse. I bet there are tons of false positives and people facing consequences at job for bad reviews Glassdoor thinks they wrote.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
ah yes, this definitely is legal, and will continue to be legal. I’m sure.