I've noticed this and RideJoy is filled with dummy accounts. What happens when someone wants to use the service and tries to get a ride from one of those dummy accounts?
Interesting, we've read a lot of untrue things about us in comment threads before, but this is a first :) we've never created dummy accounts/posts before (though we know it worked well for Reddit! <3 Alexis).
Can you reply here or email us at team at ridejoy and let us know what posts you're talking about? Much appreciated!
(We currently don't even let users post rides without a photo, so I'm racking my brain to figure out what you're thinking are dummy accounts...)
I'd seen RideJoy mentioned on HN several times, but didn't check it out until now. It wasn't obvious to me that there were dummy accounts, so could you show me some?
I also decided to check out craigslist listings in my area, which led me to find zimride (which I believe helped someone on their site auto-post to craigslist, which it looks like RideJoy will do as well). It's an interesting niche, which I'd never really considered before as I was a hitchhiker many years ago.
This whole idea caused me to call my trucking buddy to see if he could make some extra money with something like this. Turns out, his insurance premium would increase by $100/yr if he allowed riders, and he never thought it would be worth it because he thinks craigslist is sketchy. He thought this might be more palatable with FB integration (he still uses FB against my advisement).
