I launched Apple market a few days back to wide condemnation form the community on my 7% commission stance.(I will review it in the following days).
But while I was thinking of a way to make Apple Market unique I came up with the idea of a Community Market where users have the powers to perform certain administrative actions normally reserved for market admins.
And before I put down any code, i decided to run it through the darknet Community and see if they find it innovative. I want open and collaborative innovation on this, so everyone is welcome to contribute.
Apple Market will be a community run by it's users and not just market owners alone. Vendors will be the market admins and users will have power to perform certain administrative actions.
Users will vote to ban and suspend vendors.
Users will respond to support tickets.
Users will vote to resolve disputes.
Apple Market will be a democratic market with a higher level of involvement by the community unlike current markets. Of course there will be rules guiding the following actions. And here are the rules.
Rules for Voting to Suspend a vendor.
User will need to have at least one successful order form a vendor in order to open a poll on suspending that vendor.
User will need to have made one successful order to vote on suspending a vendor.
The Poll will be open for Seven Days.
At the end of Seven Days 60% of votes has to be in favor of Suspending the vendor in order for Him/Her to be suspended.
Rules for responding to Support Tickets.
Users need at least one successful order to respond to a support ticket.
If Users can't handle the ticket, they can move it up the chain to vendor admins and market admins.
Rules for Users voting to resolve disputes.
To Put an order in dispute you need to cancel it after the vendor has Accepted it.
Dispute Votes will be open for seven days.
After the dispute is open. Vendor and User get a chance to make their case to the public.
At the end of the seven days voting period. The User with more than a 50% vote in his/her favor will have the funds transferred to him/her.
In addition to this, there will be a no Doxxing rule. Anyone who Doxxes somebody will be banned.
EDIT: We Have this discussion up on our subreddit so you can check it out and contribute there.
https://www.reddit.com/r/MyAppleMarket/comments/46qc1f/community_market/
The one big problem about the community getting a say in anything is theres always going to be people that do things to sway in their favour and manipulate things such as the voting to ban vendors, a competitor vendor could bot votes or manually create account to fill in votes and so on, making it so they need 1 successful order could easily be achieved with bunk listings and the vendor buying from himself to validate the accounts, the same goes for the disputes and tickets, theres a reason no one has done this before because it is too volatile and too much to go wrong.