Probably evil; almost certainly divisive

Tonight, I got an invitation to sign up on some website called http://www.officeballot.com. The premise is very simple: you sign up using a work email address and then get to rate your co-workers and provide written comments (good or bad) on them. It claims to promote meritocracy.
I, frankly, can’t believe that there’s any possible good whatsoever that could come out of this site. It seems to me that it will hurt some people, whether right or wrong, and it won’t really gain anybody anything. I guess the good news is that I imagine most people would take the comments with the large dose of salt required.
I’ll be quite surprised if they don’t spend so much time, energy, and money fending off lawsuits that they fold up shop by the middle of 2006.

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