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Quechupped

This is distinctly old news, but I received an invite from a former colleague at Engadget a couple of days ago asking me to join Quechup.com and, like so many other fools before me, I signed up and let them peruse my gmail address book for matches.

Where Quechup appears to have learned its lesson is that it has, by the look of it, stopped sending invites to every non-Quechup member in your webmail address book without warning, after giving you the opportunity to search said address book for people who might already be members--which was, to put it mildly, the moral equivalent of fucking a dog in public and holding out a hat to ask for contributions. They haven't responded to a feedback mail I sent asking for confirmation that they've done so, but given the colossal backlash around the web it's an obvious step for them to have taken.

If I should prove to be mistaken and you receive a message from my gmail account inviting you to Quechup, please can it.

Great example of how easy it is to start up a web service, and how easy it is to kill it at the outset by treating your users as if their personal information is worth shit. Good job!