[HN Gopher] The dirty work of cleaning online reputations
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       The dirty work of cleaning online reputations
        
       Author : bookofjoe
       Score  : 38 points
       Date   : 2022-01-06 22:28 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | headcanon wrote:
       | I liked the approach in one of Neal Stephenson's books [1], where
       | instead of trying to remove negative stuff said about a person,
       | they flooded the internet with the most vile stuff they could
       | come up with, to the extent that people stopped taking it
       | seriously and moved on.
       | 
       | Kind of like letting a fire consume all the oxygen out of a room
       | instead of trying to put it out.
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       | 1: https://www.nealstephenson.com/fall,-or-dodge-in-hell.html
        
         | rapind wrote:
         | We'll we're already doing that, except not necessarily vile but
         | in aggregate filling it up with useless information.
         | 
         | Between SEO spam, content marketing, outrage news, and
         | reputation fixers, we're well on the way to destroying the web
         | at least as we used to know it.
        
         | nullc wrote:
         | Then the next section of the book is about the fracturing of
         | civilization as a result of inconsistent disinformation
         | everyone was being flooded with...
        
       | belter wrote:
       | Surely there must be services that do the opposite?
       | 
       | Make people believe that you use nano instead of vim, that you
       | created the nth Javascript framework...And that you are the one
       | accumulating Rust empty crates?
        
       | ojbyrne wrote:
       | I worked for reputation.com a while back, and I find it amusing
       | that they don't own reputation.ca. It reflects poorly on their
       | reputation.
        
         | andrei_says_ wrote:
         | As an insider - what are the steps a reputation company takes
         | to "clean" someone's reputation?
         | 
         | Anything beyond new publications to replace undesirable old
         | ones, SEO, social media posts?
        
           | Scoundreller wrote:
           | I'd add to the list: requests submitted under various "right
           | to be forgotten" legislation. Particularly EU.
        
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