I know I have said this before but it kind of got buried.

Now this forum is not eBay, it's not Amazon or anything else like that but there are a lot of people doing a lot of trades for a lot of things. We can either as a group try to help them or as a group wash our hands of it and say do your own research. But as of now it's a mess IMO and not getting better.

So quoting from my own threads and taking from some others now that we have flags:

Merit = Are they good posters? Help out people? Useful to the board? This does not matter much in terms of trading BTC or hardware or collectibles you *can* help out a lot but still be a crook.

Trust = Can you trust them with money / items / etc. However, there are a lot of people with trust that have never really bought or sold things.

Feedback = Do you really want to deal with them. Because even if the 1st 2 are good you might still want to avoid.

The problem as I said someplace else is when you click on trust you get feedback on things that may or may not make them trustworthy.

With flags it is in theory going to make it better but for now it's making it a bigger mess because anyone can tag anyone else even if you have had no dealings with them.

So what I was thinking was something that another forum had when dealing with this. It was just a good trade count + or - and it only showed up in the swap meet sections.

To leave a comment you *had to have* bought or sold something or had some kind of financial deal with the other person. NO OTHER THINGS MATTERED. This was 100% about if you sent the user DaveF money did DaveF ship what he was suppressed to in the condition it was supposed to be in, or do what he was supposed to do in the way he said he was going to do it and in the time-frame it was to be done in? If anything else happened it went as a comment in general feedback. NOT IN THE TRADE TRUST.

Or to put it as the forum owner put it.
If you send Bob $200 to tune up your bike and he came to your house and tuned up your bike then he gets positive trade trust.
If while he was there he has sex with your wife IT DOES NOT MATTER. That has nothing to do with trade trust. That is a feedback issue.

We seem to have the same issue here. I REALLY DON'T CARE if Bob is promoting scam coin X or an ICO or YoBit SPAM. If I sent Bob 1BTC and he sent me $9000 cash as agreed everything else is not important in the trade area.

Yes? No? Am I just rambling?

Only brought this up because I was looking to do a trade with someone with horrible trust here, but as near as I can tell never ripped anyone off. Didn't do it for another reason, but now they might not sell what they want to sell because of other factors that have nothing to do with handling BTC

-Dave