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BeCandid in a nutshell

Have you ever pondered to yourself "Hang on a second, I don't think either Failbook or Twatter is intrusive enough"? And do you want a platform where your comments are being harvested by a giant AI so it knows what phrases to protect people from that can later be sold to other social media sites? Then BeCandid is the app for you. Heavily promoted by all of your favourite shills YouTubers, such as:

and many many more! All of whom were approached directly by the site and offered sponsorship deals because the site's owners are feminazis and these people's audience is exactly who they want their AI to learn how to ban. Baited with a "free speech platform" angle dangling from its hook to lure in gullible trolls, MRAs, anti-sjws, and anyone else who (unlike the site's owner) actually thinks the first amendment shouldn't be abolished, BeCandid is the perfect place for the sort of people who once opposed sites like Peeple, Hello Racist, HeartMob and Social Autopsy and helped them failed (at least those of them who didn't support SoAu because they were okay with being data mined by an Orwellian nigger if it makes Zoe Quinn mad), only to now unknowingly help turn the entire internet into HeartMob.

While the app owners are panicking and claiming they won't sell the AI's data to anyone, because it is incompatible with other social networks (something that can probably be fixed easily), they also admit their app has no way of making money and wont divulge what their business plan is, leaving "selling our censorship bot" as the only option.

   
 
A few years ago, Silicon Valley engineer Bindu Reddy was raising money for a new startup. An investor offered to contribute — not because of what she was trying to do, but because she was a woman.

That rubbed Reddy the wrong way, and she wrote about it — then the backlash began.

Now Reddy's goal, with the new social network Candid, is to facilitate online conversations but without the trolls.
 


 
 

http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/08/01/488256587/can-candid-conversations-happen-online-without-the-trolls

She Bindu Nuffin wrong and Candid nothing wrong either.

In Short

BeCandid is a shit deal for shit people. The owners are SJWs and their bot is being used to learn how to censor your ass.

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BeCandid Is A Ripoff

The original app

Originally there was a Blackberry app named Diaree around September 20th 2013.

   
 
Diaree is not only the best diary app, but a new way to share your life story. You can create a post about what’s on your mind and attach a picture. If you choose to share the post anonymously, it will show up in the public list for anyone to see, like, comment on and even share.

By creating a social network which is completely anonymous, Diaree gives you a chance to share things and feelings which you wouldn’t on other networks, offering people a way to interact with someone else, express themselves, talk about difficult subjects or just have fun
 


 
 

James Nieves for N4BB

Around April 2014 it then changed name to Candid.

   
 
Candid (formerly known as Dairee) has been one of my favorite apps for BlackBerry 10 since beginning. Candid allows you to record your life, including your significant memories.
 

 
 

SHAHRIYAR ALI for BBin


The original creator

At this moment in time it was published by a Gyubok Baik.

   
 
Candid is a completely anonymous service in that no one can identify you within the app. All of your interactions, including comments, likes, and favourites, as well as your personal diary entries, remain completely anonymous and cannot be linked back to you.
 

 
 

appshopper

This sounds very familiar to what BeCandid does. Almost the exact same name. What a coincidink. Who wouldn't trust a company that ripped off the concept of another one?

MyLikes.com - A Scam

This product is completely like their previous data mining product MyLikes.com, so much that the exact same people are working on it. A pyramid-scheme where they never actually paid the money that they owed, but instead just banned people when they were nearing their payday.



   
 
so I signed up and went for it. I've got a pretty strong social network that my video can be posted onto, so I did it (which is what the site owners suggest you do) and in 2 days I brought in 5,990. Whilst this isn't on par with some of the hardcore YouTubers, I was pretty impressed with this.

Initially, MyLikes agreed with my views. However, when I hit 3,000, they said they were only going to pay for 260 of them.Then, when my view count hit 5,990, it said that the video was disapproved. Now the money that I should have received £80.50
I would strongly suggest that anyone that wants to make money online, they should stay away from MyLikes. I'm not the only one that's had this problem. Google the title of this Hub and you'll find 378,000 hits for this topic. It appears that when you start making decent money, the scrub out your account so they keep all the profit.

 


 
 

http://hubpages.com/money/MyLikes-Scam, SolveMyMaze

And there are many examples

And many many more.

Friendlife.com

This is yet another social media app by the same curries. Trying the same thing over and over, it seems.


What Friendlife.com is good for

How Does It Work?

Very simple. Once you connect to the Celebrity program, you are now able to stream videos. And by doing so, you will earn money, because Friendlife will put ads on your livestream. So how much do you make?


FUCK ALL



Your hourly wage would be a whopping 0.3 dollars per hour. Where do I sign up?

Algorithm To Get Rid Of Trolls

   
 
Let’s end on a high note. While other services provide anonymous networks, they can sadly devolve into hotbeds of harassment and hate-speech. As Candid continues to refine its moderation system, we mean to provide a platform for authenticity that’s constructive in its intent. So, while there are no doubt going to be fervent debates in the community, we’ll also get simple, positive affirmations
 

 
 

BeCandid Blog

   
 
The way other artificial intelligence works, is it basically parses your sentence. We use a deep learning NLP algorithm, which basically looks at what you're saying and decides ... whether it's positive or negative. So it kind of classifies things as having a negative sentiment or a positive sentiment.

It then gives it a score of how kind of strong your statement is — let's say you said something about someone or you threatened someone, it classifies that as saying, "Hey this is a very strong statement," because these kinds of categories are not good in terms of social discourse. And when we do that, we basically say if this thing has a score which is more than a particular level, a cut-off, then we basically take out the whole post. So whether it's self harm or like bullying or harassment, we look for certain phrases and the context of those phrases
 


 
 

NPR Staff

   
 
Candid’s secret sauce is in its artificial intelligence moderation, which aims to weed out bad actors by analyzing the content of posts and keep hate speech and threats off the network. It also has other interesting features: For example, its algorithm tries to weed out false information by marking certain items as “rumor” or “true.” Conversations on the network — even about politics and other controversial topics — are, by and large polite. That’s a good sign and shows that the algorithm seems to be working.
 

 
 

The Washington Post

   
 
After using the beta of Candid for a couple weeks, this writer was surprised at just how civil everyone was to each other. Turns out that that line of thought wasn't entirely accurate, and that Candid was working some magic on the backend to make it happen. By using AI, Candid is able to autonomously eliminate posts and replies that are filled with hate speech and derogatory comments. The AI will even move out of place topics to their appropriate sections, reducing clutter.
 

 
 

VaporTV

   
 
former Google employee Bindu Reddy wants to do something to fix it. She is creating an anonymous social media platform with a zero tolerance for hate speech... By taking a different approach to social media, Reddy hopes to create a platform that is inclusive and hate-free. The goal is to foster a social environment where people can’t just yell random thoughts, but rather share information and have intelligent conversations and discussion about a certain subject with one another... Reddy said the idea came to her after sharing a controversial op-ed about hiring women just for the sake of hiring women. She received backlash from many readers, including those who are close to her. This initially made Reddy regret writing the post, but now she doesn’t let the backlash affect her. It became the motivation and inspiration behind a hate-free network...By making this new platform anonymous, this will eliminate the ego factor and allow users to post what they really think and feel about a certain topic. However, as great as this sounds, there are still concerns over internet trolls. To avoid this, Reddy has set three criteria: moderate abusive commentary; restrict all conversations to specific topic threads; and prevent people from creating a lasting anonymous persona.

By assigning a new avatar to users every time they log in and moderating through all comments made, Reddy believes this is going to be an opportunity to build social equality, something global citizens are already familiar with.
 


 
 

Global Citizen

   
 
If you don’t have anything nice to say, you just can’t say it — not if you’re on Candid, at least...on Candid, you have to be nice. That’s because content is curated and moderated by artificial intelligence and natural language processing, which purports to flag or remove inappropriate content, and keep a conversation decorous...But just because others may not know who you are on Candid doesn’t mean Candid can’t keep things clean...That’s Candid’s goal — frank, honest, and anonymous discussion that exists without the risk of bullying and abuse that has become almost second nature in many corners of the internet. Ultimately, Reddy told Forbes, “Platforms have to curate. AI can help remove the noise, reduce the anonymous hatred, and encourage users to share more content.”
 

 
 

Yahoo



   
 
Hey Sachin! We use a powerful AI to automatically detect and remove abuse. It's our largest team. :-)
 

 
 

Spencer Janyk, Avoiding real questions and vaguely answering the softball ones

Kicking Out The Haters

   
 
By giving people the ‘hater’ badge, we hope to make haters more aware of their hate. The idea is that they’ll either leave the app, change their behavior, or could continue their ways and eventually be kicked out anyways.
 

 
 

Bindu Reddy

How They Will Get Money

Moar info: BeCandid/Code.


Source

Yes, just like shitty image boards they will make their money by data mining their users. So much for anonymity.

HOW IT WENT WITH IMAGEBOARDS


   
 
MyLikes, which operates primarily on Twitter, connects brands and tweeters for paid product endorsements. It is similar to Ad.ly and to some extent Klout.

The company takes pride in its founders, employees and funders being primarily composed of former Googlers. Like many social media businesses, MyLikes has landed on the combination of brand advertising with cost-per-click payments. Reddy calls Twitter a television replacement, and her clients include familiar TV advertisers like Coca-Cola, Universal Pictures, Axe Hair and Microsoft.
 


 
 

http://allthingsd.com/20110301/mylikes-ceo-bindu-reddy-on-how-twitter-is-the-new-tv-video/, Liz Gannes - AllThingsD

The CEO

Bindu Reddy is a dot dot curry-nigger, with an incredibly thin skin. Perhaps a side-effect of shitting in the street. Bindu Laden whose app is going to save internet free speech and the internet is completely oblivious to even the most mundane of memes. Like a fullblown SJW, Punjab, constantly plays the victim.

Old Indian Lady Hurt By Words On The Internet

   
 
Are you really serious? You are saying, you don't get offended by words?
 

 
 

Bindu on Twitter

   
 
I am sorry, I get offended when people call me terrible names
 

 
 

Bindu on Twitter

   
 
BECAUSE you told everyone on Twitter that they can say whatever on stream. I offered a stream not one with chat..
esp. chat where everyone says the most offensive and hurfful things to me. Like they just did on Twitter now

 

 
 

Bindu on Twitter

Old Indian Lady Gets Confused By ED



   
 
do those ads download the harmful thing
 

 
 

This woman is the CEO in a company specializing in anonymity, mind you

Old Indian Lady Gets Confused By Memes

The headline might be misleading as it could be yet another lie, as she apparently don't think Jews caused 9/11.

   
 
Q: So attacking the Jews for causing 9/11 is okay ?

A: and why would you attack them considering they didn't even cause it.
 


 
 

Bindu Being Asked The Important Questions

Old Indian Lady Lies

So because she couldn't win in an argument, she went for the oldest trick in the feminist handbook: Claim you are being harassed online, when nothing of the sort is happening.

   
 
Yeah, people are now posting extremely graphic porn images with my face on it. Exactly what I expected. How is that Ok?
 

 
 

Bindu Said Lyingly

But of course this was not the case, as nobody wanted to picture her disgusting julab face. Internet autists tried to find this porn, but to no avail.

   
 
actually just did a search and i can't find any "graphic porn with her face on it"
 

 
 

e-tectives on the case

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BeCandid About No Shoops


The Product Manager

We don't believe in harassers, meninists, abusive bullshit, etc. They can expect to get kicked out of Candid

If you happen to look at BeCandid over at Producthunt.com (archive) , you'll quickly see the name Spenxer Janyk aka  Spencer Janyk, a real life cuck. He is the product manager, which we think is basically like someone paid to say good things about a product on social media and other websites, of MyLikes.com and BeCandid. So basically he is the Dina of everything BeCandid related.


What more do you need to know?



   
 
The urge to fear death is a little strange, especially in the absence of a focus on social justice.

Talib Kweli has been in the press a lot lately talking about #blacklivesmatter and I was excited to see him speak at a conference that, despite the best efforts of its organizers, remains mostly white.

Given the ongoing social death experienced by people of color and non-mainstream gender identity, I had hoped that more words would be spoken about social justice. Alas, much like Talib Kweli himself, the hard work speaking and thinking about social justice never really showed up.
 


 
 

Spencer

   
 
Sometimes I too want to be vulnerable and sensitive to all the hatred and prejudice and fear, to let myself soak it up and cry it out, to avoid engaging with the world lest I make a misstep and pursue moral purity.

It does kill me spiritually and emotionally to (mostly) witness and (occasionally) experience injustice in all its various diabolical forms every day.

Every conversation with someone who says something subconsciously rude and aggressive that betrays their self-doubt and fear (microaggressions) feels like getting stabbed and makes me want to flee.
 


 
 

Spencer

   
 
Hi Product Hunt! I'm Spencer from Candid and I'm thrilled to share what we've been working on. Can't wait to see what you all have to say, and I'm happy to answer any questions.
 

 
 

—Just like Dina


Using Shill Armies To Attack Critics

The Youtubers Candid have used as their Shill army, most notably MundaneFat, The Amazing Atheist, and Armoured Skeptic have been used to attack critics on social media and on their YouTube channels. YouTubers are an extremely effective weapon against critics. Even though these YouTubers reside in the more "intellectual/skeptical" space of YouTube, their viewers are still incapable of separating their love for their favorite content creators from the opinions said creators express. So instead of actually questioning what their favorite YouTuber is saying, they decide to just go batshit insane and shill in the name of said YouTuber. Honest to God, some of these YouTubers can advocate the legalization of child pornography and still have a healthy fanbase (no seriously, this has fucking happened before).

In particular Harmful Opinions has come under attack for daring to actually look at Candid honestly and criticize the app.



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The Amazing Atheist's admits that Candid only rejected his slam video because it was too rude.
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Mundane Matt likens Harmful Opinions to a conspiratard
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The Armoured Skeptic tries backing away from the fact that he produced a slam video.'
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Another YouTuber contacted by Candid to promote the app admits
that he gets the impression that they are doing it for damage control
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The Amazing Atheist aggressively insults Harmful Opinions and admits
that a slam video he produced only got rejected by Candid because they didn't like the tone
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Bindu Reddy, Candid's CEO agreed to go on a stream with Harmful Opinions to
address the app's critics and answer any questions they might have. However she backed
out when he refused to moderate his audience, with the excuse that they might be "mean

What can YOU do?!

How about, for once in your life, you don't take the obvious fucking bait?

  • Don't join the site.
  • Don't go to the site.
  • Don't try to troll people there to try to prove some sort of point because you won't hurt anyone and will only be data mined.
  • Don't give the site any attention.
  • Resist the urge to take the bait and make an account just to let everyone on there know you know it's bait and you're too smart to take it (even though you just did).
  • Just do nothing. Something you lazy failures should already be experts at.

See Also

External Links

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