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Jesse R.

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79 Reviews by Jesse

  • News Break

7/22/22

The news itself is harmless, most of the time. But for whatever reason, the comments are dominated by conservative ogres making racist comments. Any time a black person (especially a rapper) dies, you'll see several comments about "these kinds of people" and "black-on-black violence".

If you avoid the comments, this app has some potential, but it's still not a great source.

  • Disqus

3/3/16

For almost a year now, anything I post on Disqus is "Detected as spam" or if I attempt to make a new post rather than comment on some article "Marked as spam".

It is depressing that so many websites and blogs use Disqus when there are many other viable commenting systems. I try to avoid sites that rely on this terrible format.

Tip for consumers:
have fun with it

  • Imgur

2/6/17

If there's a way to get downvoted on a site, I am going to get downvoted. A lot. More than pretty much any other user who contributes to said site. Any site that allows downvotes or negative ratings to be publicly displayed, and you'll find me with a negative reputation on comments that, if they were posted by any other user, would get a positive score.

Imgur is worse than most others about this. They are quick and fierece about downvoting content that doesn't fit into their narrow 4chanesque world view.

The site itself is cool though and you can find interesting images. Shame about the losers that use it.

  • BuzzFeed

1/30/14

A blatant content farm that mostly consists of terrible lists like "42 Ways you Know you went to UC Irvine" designed solely to generate clicks for advertisers.

There is absolutely no original content on this site. It mostly consists of pictures taken from Tumblr which are taken from YouTube videos.

It's sad that so many people like this site.

  • Nextdoor

1/18/18

These annoying ignorant people are always whining about the city of Mountain View building more apartments. They don't care about the big picture but only about traffic. I quit this site in a spergy rage.

  • USAJobs.gov

5/1/12

Unreliable and full of glitches. Worst of all, the jobs are hard to come by, and if you're not a veteran, you have very little chance of getting employment. Avoid this.

  • Indeed

11/23/20

Indeed is a platform that allows employers and employees to contact one another. I have had a positive experience finding my first job I could actually call a career from here, but other than that job, I haven't had as much luck.

There are some questionable jobs out there. The worst are the headhunters, usually for a major company. They are all offering the same job across several networks and claiming varying pay rates.

The assessments are actually fun, though. This is a big step up from Craigslist, and WAY better than Monster. USAJobs could learn a thing or 69 from Indeed.

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Indeed-Support S. – Indeed Rep

Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback, Jesse, we are glad to hear you had a positive experience. If you come across any jobs that you are concerned about on Indeed feel free to send us more details to socialcare@indeed.com, we would be happy to check them out for you!

  • RetailMeNot

3/3/16

This is a site for stupid people that want to rip off retail stores and take advantage of all the coupons at once.

Just STFU, get their apps and text alerts. This site needs to be shut down by the corporate world!

  • Examiner.com

1/30/14

A terrible content farm that lets anyone write whatever they want.

Yet people actually use them as a source of news, which is disturbing.

  • HireArt

11/2/13

For a job application site, this one is not terrible. They will require you to answer several questions via your webcam or smartphone and then the HireArt team will look through it. After a couple of weeks, you'll find out whether they rejected you outright or sent you on to the employer themselves.

The process takes longer than I feel it should. Not terrible but a bit frustrating sometimes.

Also some jobs that label themselves "entry-level" will ask for 2+ years of experience in a specific field... not really "entry-level", is it?

  • Prodege

10/30/13

It's like a poll site where all the other people answering questions are the sort of Republican drones that have Drudgereport.com set as their browser's home page.

Lots of calling everyone else a socialist, veiled racism... but it's still fun to answer polls, even if the other users are idiots.

  • Monster

11/23/20

At least the emails say they're from Monster, so it's truth in advertising. But the only jobs that ever contact me through Monster are sleazy ones.

Avoid them. They're almost as bad as JobVite.

  • Meet Me

4/16/20

I remember talking to this really pretty girl on here back in 2011. But in 2017 or 2018 someone hacked my account and made it say I was gay.

  • Wikipedia

3/1/17

Because Wikipedia is paranoid and hates anyone who changes anything, they have blocked all tMo-Bile users for at least a year.

I mean, I used to do this, I would change an actress or singer's birthday to 69 and then go into airplane mode when they banned me and do it all over again.

But if you're on a tmobile phone, good luck.

Also, besides that, the site is crawling with neoNazis. You can't use the word "nazi" it is filtered.

It's a site full of young adult men from English/German countries.

Don't use it if you want to succeed in life.

  • UrbanDictionary

9/6/16

1/3/2017 Update:

They clearly don't care about the blatant exploits on their site. I know removing another star from the review won't do anything but I'd advise people to ignore this site full of tryhard script kiddies and 4chan $#*!s.

I emailed them regarding my issue and never heard back.

This means:

A) They know about this exploit (downvote scripts), could fix it, but don't care.
B) They don't know how to fix it.
C) They've tried to fix it in the past, and have given up.

In any case, this site sucks.

9/6/2016 Original:
I have been using Urbandictionary since 2003 and have added over 100 definitions. They have increased their standards in the past 5-10 years but a lot of the top definitions are relics from the past that wouldn't be accepted by the editors today.

The worst part about UD is the awful voting system. It is very easy for dedicated jerks to exploit it and downvote people. I was a victim of this over the past few days. I used to have several definitions with many more upvotes than downvotes, but due to the dedication of some script kiddie brigade, all of my definitions have more downvotes than upvotes. I suspect they don't care but I filed a report with their help section and if they respond to me and fix this issue I might give them another star.

TLDR: Do not trust the votes on here.

Tip for consumers:
Ignore the up/downvtes. If you want to know a word, dig into the low-rated ones too.

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  • Jobvite

5/1/12

I have had no luck getting employment through Jobvites. It's just a way to further distance the prospective employee from prospective employers. Some of the jobs even just change their status to "Not Selected" without reviewing one's qualifications. I guess if you don't "network" well enough, that happens to you.

Scammy.

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Teri K. – Jobvite Rep

We're sorry you haven't been able to find a job through a "Jobvite" that has been sent to you. Our customers have hired over 200K people this year alone so hopefully you will quickly find the perfect job. We have a tremendous amount of information for job seekers (tips and tricks) to help them find that perfect job online. Please check out our blog at blog.jobvite.com.

  • Plenty of Fish

1/18/18

POF has a lot of unintelligent people. Way too many netspeak-users and cliche-ridden profiles.

They also have some heavy-handed "autoblock" policy where you can't message someone more than 10 years younger than you. Even if POF shows their profile when you're surfing.

So that beautiful blonde in an American flag bikini? Sorry, she turned 21 after you turned 31. No dice.

The worst part is the one girl I sort of "met" was creepy. I never saw her in person but she saw me twice when I was eating at the McDonald's in her WalMart. She never talked to me but would text me saying she saw me there and it was... creepy.

Wish it was that hot girl that saw me, not this unattractive creeper.

Site could work if you put effort in, but not if you're a "guy like me".

  • DrudgeReport

10/30/13

The site itself is relatively innocuous. A poorly-designed news aggregation site with an extremely right-wing bias.

But what is really annoying about it is Drudge's hordes of followers that will infiltrate the comments section of any news article that Drudge links them to.

Any time your crazy right-wing uncle sends you another annoying link... check Drudge report. I'll bet you $50 he got it from Drudge.

  • OkCupid

5/2/12

Lets you do things for free that cost a lot of money on Eharmony and Match. Some of the girls are a bit snobby, but others are really down to earth. Have not had a date from here, but that's my fault, not the site.

  • Twitter

10/30/19

I've wasted hundreds of dollars advertising to twitter and I've gotten suspended multiple times. I have reported numerous cases of harassment against myself and they are always ignored.

Jesse Has Earned 206 Votes

Jesse R.'s review of Indeed earned 7 Very Helpful votes

Jesse R.'s review of Reddit earned 2 Very Helpful votes

Jesse R.'s review of Imgur earned 10 Very Helpful votes

Jesse R.'s review of Fandom earned a Very Helpful vote

Jesse R.'s review of Common Sense Media earned 4 Very Helpful votes

Jesse R.'s review of Wikipedia earned 5 Very Helpful votes

Jesse R.'s review of Meet Me earned 6 Very Helpful votes

Jesse R.'s review of Monster earned 6 Very Helpful votes

Jesse R.'s review of Kiwi Farms earned 3 Very Helpful votes

Jesse R.'s review of Online Clock earned 2 Very Helpful votes

Jesse R.'s review of UrbanDictionary earned 6 Very Helpful votes

Jesse R.'s review of NationStates earned a Very Helpful vote

Jesse R.'s review of Sporcle earned 2 Very Helpful votes

Jesse R.'s review of rateyourmusic.com earned a Very Helpful vote

Jesse R.'s review of Vox earned a Very Helpful vote

Jesse R.'s review of BleacherReport earned 3 Very Helpful votes

Jesse R.'s review of Findwhocallsyou earned 3 Very Helpful votes

Jesse R.'s review of Vox Media earned 2 Very Helpful votes

Jesse R.'s review of BugMeNot earned 2 Very Helpful votes

Jesse R.'s review of News Break earned 21 Very Helpful votes

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