Rapleaf and I need to go on a Date

The more I think about Rapleaf the more I love their service. Its great to see this market being re-entered in general e.g. iKarma, Opinity, and maybe others?.

You always hear about dating online, that it is only for the desperate, well ‘they’ may be right. But everyone is desperate as some point (not really picking on online daters so much as making a point) and the point isn’t that they are desperate its that people will do whatever it takes to fulfil their needs in moments personal distress and that means telling you want you want to hear. Online dating in a nutshell is filled with fraudulent marketing of ones own self. Reputation and image management companies like Rapleaf could help with this problem.

Recently I was chatting with a couple colleagues at work and we were talking about Rapleaf and we decided that Rapleaf needs to have more options to rank someone. That it should be dynamic to some extent and that some categories should be connected.

For example I should be able to put one reputation link up on my blog and for my personal web site (almost the same but not quite). Right now how the ratings are its not really feasible. My blog isn’t buying or selling anything and it certainly isn’t personal because my relationship is one to many, and creating a second identity defeats the value of Rapleaf, so through our conversation we decided I needed than friend, buyer, and seller to be rating choices. I needed to be able to select from some basic categories e.g. blogging, dating, professionalism, ethics, morals, etc.

Now I know I can’t have them all but I know I want my blog rateable and I know as a consultant it would be great if I could have my professionalism and my knowledge rated. In the world of online dating I imagine that when someone says something about themselves with a high Rapleaf rating, its measured and authentic because they have a reputation to protect.