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Forbes Lists Top Corporate Hate Web Sites

Posted by timothy on from the forbesucks dept.

windowpain writes "You've seen them. Maybe you've made one, like Walmart-blows.com or Paypalsucks.com. Now Forbes.com has a 'Special Report' devoted to what it considers the best of them. 'The following nine sites--there were ten, but one went unexpectedly dark during the editing of this story--are the crème de la crème of online rage. Note that we substantially cleaned up some of the posts, editing out odd capitulation schemes, iffy grammar and plain incoherence. Apparently blinding anger does not go hand in hand with dotting your i's and crossing your t's.' Maybe this will become an annual thing like the Forbes 400 and the Fortune 500." (I wonder what a capitulation scheme is.)

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  1. Re:UPS positive attitude by RobertB-DC · · Score: 5, Informative

    On a side note I wonder how forbes has/would handle something like forbessucks.com.

    They have/would have bought it.

    Registrant:
    Forbes, Inc.
    (DOM-1334284)
    60 Fifth Avenue
    New York, NY 10011 US

    Domain Name: forbessucks.com

    Registrar Name: Markmonitor.com
    Registrar Whois: whois.markmonitor.com
    Registrar Homepage: http://www.markmonitor.com

    Administrative Contact:
    Filipe Carreira
    (NIC-14324246)
    Forbes, Inc.
    60 Fifth Avenue
    New York, NY 10011 US

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    Stressed? Me? Of course not. Stress is what a rubber band feels before it breaks, silly.
  2. Epinions by j1m+5n0w · · Score: 4, Informative
    Epinions is a very interesting site worth looking at for those of you who haven't. Essentially, they're a forum for people to write reviews of products (i.e. to complain loudly).

    I first heard of the site from reading this paper in www2004, which used epinions data as the basis for a reputation system. (I don't know if epinions uses that same system internally, but they at least do something similar.) The cool part is that you can rate individual reviewers as "trusted" or "untrusted". By examining the graph of trust and distrust relationships between users, they can come up with a reasonable guess for how much any user should trust any other user, and sort reviews accordingly.

    I don't know what the motives are of the people who run the site. Perhaps they're just trying to grease the wheels of capitalism by giving people good information to make informed decisions about what products to buy (or, more formally, to avoid information asymmetry). Perhaps they're secretly tweaking the ratings to support companies that send them money. Perhaps they're just trying to generate ad banner revenue. Who knows.

  3. Who sucks? by Kadmos · · Score: 5, Informative

    The other side of the story (which isn't to say companies don't suck):
    http://www.customerssuck.com/