Checking the e-democracy page on social media in public life, I learned that the, uh, unfortunate Rotten Neighbor website is closed. Heck, it's only one of those places people are encouraged to make unsubstantiated remarks about others around them, or beyond them.
But in case you thought someone had seen the light, or a successful court case had been brought against them, no, it seems the owner is out to make it bigger and inevitably better. It says here:
'This site rottenneighbor dot com does not exist anymore, but I wish to use it as a model for a new site. The basic idea is to have a website where users can type in their address or zip code and it will pull up a google map of the area, users can mark points on the map and leave comments about people that live at the houses there. Marking them as either as good or bad.'
I suppose the new site could have its own social capital calculator in the corner of the screen, a realtime index of the negativity - or possibly positivity, which do you think? - that it generates.
For sure, the owner knows that lots of people will want to find out where he or she lives.
