Quote from: CryptopreneurBrainboss on February 14, 2019, 09:58:19 PM

Quote from: madnessteat on February 14, 2019, 06:45:26 PM

Guys, who can tell how people involved in escrow find customers if they do not already have a track record? Do they first participate in simple transactions on the forum, receive positive feedback in this way and then offer deposit services?

Quote from: xtraelv on January 19, 2019, 02:51:46 AM

Offering escrow without a track record

If you want to offer the escrow service, you must first prove you can be trusted by having a track record of successful transaction from previous trade. This doesn't mean if you want to offer escrow service you should go around forum participating in trade just to get positive trust (gain reputation) doing so might attract red tag.

Quote from: xtraelv on January 19, 2019, 02:51:46 AM

Unacceptable behavior that will result in a red tag:
Lending or borrowing to gain "reputation"

When it says have good track record here's a possible guess,

Quote from: bones261 on January 19, 2019, 05:51:36 PM

You'd have to do other activities that would make you deemed trustworthy by someone. Then that person would approach you to act as an escrow for them. Then if you did a good job for them, they would recommend you to other people. After a while, you would have a good track record and have many to vouch for you. At that point, you can offer it yourself. That's my guess, at least. It kinda has to drop in your lap, at first.

Offering escrow service means you're officially announcing your availability to hold fund for large number of users therefore, if you don't have a positive track record for doing that for one or two users unofficially plus other previous successful trade records don't jump right into offering escrow service.

And who makes the determination how much reputation is enough before escrowing? Is this really what you want on this forum? A nanny state where a bunch of bored OCD people run around tagging people for whatever they deem offensive inserting themselves between people otherwise willing to make a voluntary exchange?

The trust system needs an objective standard of evidence of theft, violation of contractual agreement, or violation of applicable laws for negative ratings. This is the only viable solution to all of these issues that is done in a manner consistent with existing community review, decentralization, and most importantly would end the majority of trust rating disputes before they ever happen.