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Owners of Private Christian Charter School Flee Town with $200k Taxpayer Dollars

Facebook's new rating system catches flak from some business owners

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IDG News Service – Criticism hurts — especially when you’re not sure where it’s coming from, or why, and have no way to respond to it.

That’s the feeling among some business owners, who say a new rating system that Facebook introduced to better compete with
Yelp is actually doing more harm than good. The system, which is currently in a testing phase for the desktop version of Facebook,
lets people leave ratings on a scale of 1 to 5 stars, in addition to text reviews, on businesses’ Facebook pages. So, if a
simple “like” will not suffice, there’s this.

But some small business owners say the system contains numerous flaws that have caused headaches for them and made it difficult
to manage their companies’ pages on Facebook. Among their complaints: The ratings can be left anonymously, sometimes with
no real feedback attached to them, and without any way to respond to the reviews or correct mistakes in them.

Part of the issue is that the system allows for discrepancies between a business’s overall rating and the reviews that are
viewable on its page. The way the system works now, someone can write a positive review but leave a low star rating for the
business, which is factored into its overall grade. That makes it hard, some business owners say, to understand what’s really
going on.

Reviewers have several privacy options for their reviews. So even though the reviewer’s rating is factored into the business’s
average, the reviewer still has the option of making the written review public, or visible only to friends, or only to himself,
among other settings.

For some businesses, that’s led to confusion. “I would just like to be able to understand what the negative comments related
to. Drinks? Food? Customer service? Wait time?” said Mary Hanson, on an anti-Facebook-ratings page that has sprung up since Facebook began testing the system.

“I do not have many reviews, so one or two low ratings can make a big difference for my business,” said Hanson, the owner
of Mary’s Scone Shop, a store based in Mount Horeb, Wisconsin.

Others were more critical. “This ratings system is a broken feature,” said Steve Miles, in a plea to remove the anonymous
ratings. A new business of his that wasn’t even opened yet had already received some 1-star ratings, probably from a former
competitor, he said.

Some companies, in response, have selected a non-business category for their pages on Facebook, just to have the ratings removed, even if it means wiping out positive reviews in the process.
In message boards, others have suggested some fairly technical work-arounds, such as deleting the address from their business page.

Still, other business owners said the system was generally a good thing for building brand awareness and engagement. “I’m
not asking to retract the ratings,” said Cathy Wallace, owner of The Mens Room, a consignment store in Hendersonville, Tennessee.
Instead, she’d like Facebook to include a better way to let her respond to customers’ complaints, either privately, or publicly
on her company’s page.

What she wants, she said, is a way to contact the reviewer, ask what happened, and say “sorry.” Not that she would often need
to: Her store currently holds an average rating of 4.5, based on 64 ratings.

Facebook could not comment for this article before press time.

It’s common for major Internet companies like Facebook to try out new software and products and see what sticks. Twitter does
“Nexus Q,” a black orb for streaming people’s music. It was never released to the public.

These aren’t always full-fledged, masterful products. But even if they’re just in testing mode, the companies’ tinkerings
can have a huge impact on ordinary people’s lives, given the size and influence of an online platform.

Business owners upset by Facebook’s platform might be dealing with an unavoidable problem in the world of online reviews,
when it comes to anonymity. Reviewers can post anonymously on Yelp, too. But they may not always stay secret. Just this week,
a Virginia court ordered Yelp to hand over the identities of several people who left negative reviews anonymously for a carpet
cleaning business.

Zach Miners covers social networking, search and general technology news for IDG News Service. Follow Zach on Twitter at @zachminers. Zach’s e-mail address is zach_miners@idg.com

The IDG News Service is a Network World affiliate.

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Massachusetts Moves To Inspect Gun Owners’ Homes

Bureaucrat Proposes Violating Fourth and Second Amendments to Protect Children

Kurt Nimmo
Prison Planet.com
November 10, 2013

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In Massachusetts, a bureaucrat wants police to enter private residences and “safeguard” guns under the pretense that violating the Constitution will be good for the children.

Barry Greenfield, a Swampscott, Massachusetts selectman, cited a state law requiring citizens to keep their firearms locked up and rendered inoperable.

“We need the ability to enforce the state law,” Greenfield said.

In an email to a constituent concerned about the proposal, Greenfield cited school shootings.

“The research I have read states that 65% or more of school shootings are caused by kids having access to their parents guns. It would be great to avoid another situation like that,” he wrote.

“I’m a volunteer elected official. I’m trying to do what I can to prevent Sandy Hook happening in my town,” Greenfield added.

• A d v e r t i s e m e n t

Fellow selectman Glenn Kessler said “he would like to see all the interested parties including the police chief, the town’s legal counsel and citizens talk about the issue before selectmen take action,” according to the Swampscott Patch.

Kessler said there are civil liberty matters to consider.

Although Swampscott’s selectmen took no action on Greenfield’s suggestion, most indicated they may hold a discussion on a gun inspection proposal.

In February, similar legislation was pulled in Washington state. Under the proposed law, residents who refused to allow cops to search their homes without a warrant faced a year in jail. Democrats who proposed the bill faced withering criticism from the public and the bill was dropped.

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Massachusetts Moves To Inspect Gun Owners’ Homes

Massachusetts Moves To Inspect Gun Owners’ Homes

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Bureaucrat Proposes Violating Fourth and Second Amendments to Protect Children

Kurt Nimmo
Prison Planet.com
November 10, 2013

Illustration: Banksy

In Massachusetts, a bureaucrat wants police to enter private residences and “safeguard” guns under the pretense that violating the Constitution will be good for the children.

Barry Greenfield, a Swampscott, Massachusetts selectman, cited a state law requiring citizens to keep their firearms locked up and rendered inoperable.

“We need the ability to enforce the state law,” Greenfield said.

In an email to a constituent concerned about the proposal, Greenfield cited school shootings.

“The research I have read states that 65% or more of school shootings are caused by kids having access to their parents guns. It would be great to avoid another situation like that,” he wrote.

“I’m a volunteer elected official. I’m trying to do what I can to prevent Sandy Hook happening in my town,” Greenfield added.

• A d v e r t i s e m e n t

Fellow selectman Glenn Kessler said “he would like to see all the interested parties including the police chief, the town’s legal counsel and citizens talk about the issue before selectmen take action,” according to the Swampscott Patch.

Kessler said there are civil liberty matters to consider.

Although Swampscott’s selectmen took no action on Greenfield’s suggestion, most indicated they may hold a discussion on a gun inspection proposal.

In February, similar legislation was pulled in Washington state. Under the proposed law, residents who refused to allow cops to search their homes without a warrant faced a year in jail. Democrats who proposed the bill faced withering criticism from the public and the bill was dropped.

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Department of Homeland Security TRAINING VIDEO Showing Gun Owners as Terrorists

Department of Homeland Security TRAINING VIDEO Showing Gun Owners as Terrorists

Alex Jones Rallies At The Alamo With Gun Owners For Open Carry

Infowars.com
October 20, 2013

This article was posted: Sunday, October 20, 2013 at 10:14 am

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Alex Jones Rallies At The Alamo With Gun Owners For Open Carry

Alex Jones Rallies At The Alamo With Gun Owners For Open Carry

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October 20, 2013

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Editor Who Published Map of Legal Gun Owners Loses Job

Posted by Dave Jolly in 2nd Amendment, Gun Control, Jobs, Media | 0 comments

Last December, the Rockland County Journal News published an interactive map of everyone in the counties of Westchester and Rockland, New York that had legal gun permits on their website.  The public outrage was instant and it wasn’t long before they were forced to take the map off their site.

The damage had already been done as several gun owners found themselves the victims of burglaries.  I wrote in January asking if the Journal News was willing to accept the liability for placing legal gun owners in danger and setting them up for burglaries and home invasions.

Now it seems that the Rockland Journal News has done some summer house cleaning, according to a local competitor, the Rockland Times.  The report says that a total of 26 staff members the Journal News have been released from their jobs.  Among the casualties are 17 reporters and editor Caryn McBride.  McBride was the one responsible for the posting of the interactive map of legal gun permit holders.

McBride’s troubles started soon after the interactive map was posted.  A number of people whose homes were identified called to say that they did not have gun permits.  Upon investigation it was learned that the information they used for the map was outdated.

Then McBride called police because she claimed she was getting angry and threatening phone calls and letters.  Someone even posted a map showing the addresses and location of McBride and other Journal News employees as a retaliation for what she did.  When the police said they did not believe the threats to be credible, McBride and others at the news agency hired armed guards to protect them and their property.  This in turn caused an uproar among the area residents who pointed to the hypocrisy of the anti-gun editor hiring gun toting guards for her protection.

I’m sure many area residents will be pleased to hear the news of McBride’s dismissal and feel that it is a just reward for her actions.  However, I feel that it is not enough punishment.  Everyone whose house was identified on the map and found themselves victims of burglars or home intruders should file a lawsuit against the Journal News and against McBride for exposing them to the danger.  In doing so, hopefully others will think twice before doing something similar and putting peoples’ lives and property in danger.

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Editor Who Published Map of Legal Gun Owners Loses Job