Taipion wrote:How about just looking at the trade thread of someone to determine if it's someone you can trust with a trade?
Anyone can start a thread and build up good feedback, and anyone can see how "trusted" someone is.
- A list managed by anyone belonging to any political faction in Salem is at best flawed by default.
- Actually, finding a true "neutral" person in Salem would be quite difficult I'd say.
- Such a list would encourage scammers impersonating people.t s
- "Doing some research", by a single person, that is probably not "truely neutral", will likely result in a ranking that some will consider to not be fair.
- There is no guarantee, for anyone, that at a certain point they won't scam you, no matter how you rank them. On the other hand,
- anyone trying to gather good feedback and trading honestly for a while will likely not scam you with everyday goods anyways.
I agree with this. I don't see any improvement in this one-thread system over the current trader's-thread system. I see two major differences. Consolidation of information and consolidation of power(the ability to manipulate the truth by the OP).
I like the way it is working currently. Anyone with a trade thread and a posted HS can almost certainly be trusted relevant to the open history of the trader's actions and the fact that the trader created the easiest place for anyone to see that their HS character is a scammer.
I don't see the consolidation of information in this thread to be too helpful, because when I need to buy something, I am much more interested in where the product is over where the trusted trader is. And once again, whether where the product is can be trusted is in the trade thread of that product offering. If there is no trade thread, hence no responsibility of the other, then I just ask for the product first and put the responsibility on him to interpret my own thread.