Quote from: hilariousandco on November 20, 2014, 07:42:43 PM

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Quote from: hilariousandco on November 20, 2014, 06:33:45 AM

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Quote from: quickbits on July 25, 2014, 03:39:58 PM

This should really be stopped or done only within trusted members network. It's very much ok that way than selling senior member account or full member account to some newbies

taking away the registration date , activity count and post count would be the best way to solve this or at least make it invisible so every member appears equal

no trusted
no senior
no hero etc

take away the incentive to buy trusted accounts to use in scams ......

This would be counterproductive and have the opposite effect. Scams would go up considerably if we were all 'equal'. Age of account, activity and trust etc are all helpful when dealing or trusting a user but that doesn't mean you should blindly trust everyone who has a certain amount of those things but they are all valuable informations to help you make your mind up about an account. Should long-time and trusted members like tomatocage and vod etc be the same as some random newb? No.

ALL DEALS SHOULD BE DONE WITH ESCROW
the amount of time anyone has spent making posts has no correlation to how trustworthy they might be

Dank is probably the greatest example of a complete degenerate with the status of "legendary" just because he posts a lot of crap....

How would newcomers tell how trustworthy an escrow was? How long someone has been around is very relevant especially when you factor all the other different parameters you propose to get rid of. Age or number of posts etc doesn't equal trust by itself but when you factor in other things like the trust system it gives you a pretty good idea of who you can and cannot trust. If everyone was on a level playing field from newcomers to long-time trusted Legendary members it would be a nightmare.

To improve security I would suggest that staff or theymos either do the escrow or get real life id and collateral from anyone running any kind of business from banking, investment and ponzi schemes.... And give them some commission to make it worthwhile etc

In layman's terms, anyone who's holding the coins of the community for any reason should be held more accountable than what we have now

Its not the perfect solution but it would certainly cut down on scams where people trust an account with hundreds of posts etc