Revisit the idea of a ratings system for buyers and sellers

[Jaws22]

Whats wrong with publicly asking for a refund? If a seller gets too many of these, it might send a RED FLAG to buyers. I think it would keep honest people honest and the rift raff away. Or better yet require sellers to post there real name.

[tugboat]

I am not asking for anyone to judge (moderators etc.) just allow members to leave info either positively or negatively depending on the experience they have had with that member. Then if you are supplied with that info you can make up your own mind to proceed or not etc. On eBay just because a seller has one or two complaints vs dozens of positive results wouldn't  sway me from doing business. Its the individual with multiple bad results (5 to 8 ) that would warn me away as that demonstrates a pattern of problems. I understand you can't make everybody happy 100% of the time but the effort to make things right speaks volumes as much as the final exchange.

[linuxrulesusa]

I am not asking for anyone to judge (moderators etc.) just allow members to leave info either positively or negatively depending on the experience they have had with that member. Then if you are supplied with that info you can make up your own mind to proceed or not etc. On eBay just because a seller has one or two complaints vs dozens of positive results wouldn't  sway me from doing business. Its the individual with multiple bad results (5 to 8 ) that would warn me away as that demonstrates a pattern of problems. I understand you can't make everybody happy 100% of the time but the effort to make things right speaks volumes as much as the final exchange.

I get your analogy but half the time people don't post good feedback so it's the bad that sticks.  Leave info in a transaction thread if you want but I feel strongly this should be optional.

[Ron]

Things have gotten out of hand a bit, so this is shut down. Some content was removed and is awaiting review. It may be moved back and the thread may be reopened.

For the time being I'm requesting no additional threads be started on the content that was removed.

Caveat emptor

[Marty]

I'll be addressing this shortly............

[Marty]

What happened on this thread a couple of hours ago was UNACCEPTABLE

Tugboat - Personal attacks will not be tolerated.  Also, If you're going to accuse someone of something, you better cite personal examples and not libelous generalizations of things you heard from third parties that you have no proof of.

Rich - Your responses to Blair were personal attacks which were not only deplorable, but they served no purpose other than to try to embarrass Blair 

Blair - You stirring the pot by encouraging other people to post in the thread and then stirring the pot again by posting in other threads after Ron locked this thread was not cool at all.

You have been warned.  If you want a vacation from the site, test me.  When I'm not here, what Ron says, goes.  There's a reason Ron is the only full site moderator.  He's shown incredibly good judgment and moderation skills all the way back to mittenstatecichlids.