Poll: PleaseRobMe.com

[SomeBoredGuy]

So all the people who voted that they are being responsible:

If someone got robbed as a result of the information they found on Please Rob Me, or say an estranged boyfriend stabbed someone based on that info, would the creators of the website have any responsibility for that?

But since they put that info on Twitter themselves, the robbers and/or boyfriends would have found that info out anyway.

 

[JWAN]

It takes a thief to catch a thief.

To tell you the truth, if you constantly twitter and think your not giving out important information, your a total idiot. A few of my friends twitter but that does not make them any less stupid.

 

[That One Six]

Exactly why I don't use Twitter.

Because you would post information that you were leaving your house and would get robbed? Seems like a silly reason, but if it is the only way to stop yourself then whatever.

Honestly, I would rather these people be doing it as a demonstration now than have some serial thief do it first and people actually getting hurt by their social network sites. This doesn't mean that Twitter is bad, it means that all social networking should be done responsibly.

I actually meant that I don't like putting personal information about who I am and what I'm doing out into the cesspool that is The Internet.

 

[Uszi]

They are doing both: raising awareness and being a little too reckless about it(the 2 aren't opposites, as it turns out).
Also, no one said anything about 10 options, i only suggested a 3rd one.

It's my fault, then, for muddying my original thought on the poll, the poll really should be is it right or wrong, or maybe, do you like it or do you not like it. In the future I guess I'll make the poll options what I actually mean them to be, rather than phrases with meanings which approach what I'm trying to say.

All I was saying originally was that the proposed option, "They are recklessly raising awareness," falls easily into the mere, "They are raising awareness," category, again because I was thinking more in terms of right/wrong.

I see your point now, that groups like Hamas arguably satisfied both poll choices. Fine. No need to get catty though, sheesh.

The subsequent rant I went on, about meaningless additional poll options, was not directed at you or anything--I get the impression that you took offense to what I said.

All I'm saying is I think that polls which feature options that could easily be combined are inferior to polls with broader categories. And that when I was thinking that the two were exclusive, again because here recklessness being synonymous with bad and raising awareness with good, that there is no new information gained by adding your poll option.

My original thinking: adding an option like "I'm kind of short," to an "Are you a Midget Poll: Yes/No?" does not benefit the poll. Those sorts of hybrid categories just muddle results. If you were actually interested in the demographic of the escapist, you would have to combine the near-midgets and the non-midget category anyway.

As it is... I see your point. I still don't think I'll add the option though, since you're the only person to notice/point out my mistake and the discussion has proceeded along the same lines it would have if I had better clarified my poll options in the beginning.

 

[Godavari]

People would get robbed even without the help of that site. So, I'd say they can only have a net benefit.

 

[jpoon]

I don't touch the trash that is Twitter. I rarely touch Facebook other than to say hello to friends I don't talk to often. If it's not the fucking government that's spying on you then it's some dipshit that intends to rob you, basically the same thing as the government (intending to rob you), go figure.