Smiling Young White People Make App for Avoiding Black Neighborhoods
rootlesscosmo
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http://valleywag.gawker.com/smiling-young-white-people-make-app-for-avoiding-black-1617775138/+sambiddle
SketchFactor, the brainchild of co-founders Allison McGuire and Daniel Herrington, is a Manhattan-based navigation app that crowdsources user experiences along with publicly available data to rate the relative "sketchiness" of certain areas in major cities. The app will launch on the iTunes on Friday, capping off a big week for the startup, which was named as a finalist in the NYC BigApps competition.
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Dude who wrote the article is a race-baiting idiot. A "sketchy" neighbourhood is not the same as a "black" neighbourhood.
It wasn't me.
LOL!
Closest I've gotten to a physical altercation in the last 5 years was with polish louts in greenpoint. Nobody would describe that neighborhood as "sketchy".
Too busy getting their space programs off the ground, I guess.
You fucking moron.
Why didn't your mom dump all of her substandard eggs before she dropped any frogs?
His handle is Battyboy... Troll poaster, do not take the bait.
even battyboy's game is skippin, and he's only been alive a month
if that = crime data then pick on that
b / w
on their homepage it says that million hoodies partnered with them to monitor racial profiling
True... Can't forget those Mexican neighborhoods.
Fuckin soft ass bitches. What the fuck? Go to Orlando or some shit.
Unless you in some way out Deep Brooklyn,Queens, Bronx hoods were NOBODY is walking around at night, I dont even know a whole entire "sketchy" Hood.
Are there sketchy blocks...most def. But "Avoid Spanish Harlem" is fucking stupid.
Whitey is somethin' else, man.
By the time I was down there nobody was getting harrassed or robbed or random gunplay on that block.
I really doubt they were terrorizing folks w/ the precinct right up the ave all these years.
They looked scary though at first site....cant front.
Fuck you, you racist sack of shit.
Batmon ain't racist. He'd totally fuck a white chick.
Unbelievable.
Hey SoulStrut - Can't say this is a place I want to be anymore - please PM me if you want to stay in touch through email.
Between this thread and the Israel one, it's fucking grim. It's been grand.
xox
Truth.
Para-Ex-Lax will be downloading the APP.
b/w
Mind if I call you Darkie? Serious question.
But seriously though, white dudes get offended over "whitey?" For reals?! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
Yup, definitely. Even in its driest moments, I still loved it here. It was a community I valued and wanted to be part of. I made real world friends here. That's not a small thing to me.
The political threads are nothing new; the hyperboles, the willful ignorance, the expected responses from certain folks so predictable you can almost time it...all of which I have been party to myself. The lack of music posts is not a great sign but this used to be a place to get away from the bs and now it's just part of it. It's hard to get away from the acrimony when there are so many perpetrators.
There is too much to do in the real world with like-minded people to make things better than to fight it out here.
I don't get offended by it. But I get mildly irritated that white doesn't even seem to be a race in the same way as other colours. Obama is a black president, or if somebody is feeling nit-picky, he's half-black. The other half?
Mildly, I add. Like seeing bad grammar or something.
Back to the OP, would this app be used to sabotage property prices or something? Or if it takes off, would the website start taking bribes to alter a neighbourhood's "sketchiness"?
Bitd there was nowhere in the city I would not and did not go except for that street....I'd walk TWO blocks out of the way to avoid it