Silk Road forums
Support => Feature requests => Topic started by: Silpheed on December 18, 2011, 10:40 pm
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In addition to being able to list products by seller rank, could there be a separate list of all sellers, ordered by seller rank, with columns for % feedback, and # of transactions? And preferably all on one page (or would that hurt bandwidth)? Maybe it could list all vendors (active and inactive) or just active vendors with items currently for sale.
I like to list products by bestselling, but I'd like another list I could quickly refer to to compare sellers. And wouldn't scammers be more visible that way? Maybe usernames could be color-coded if they are above or below a certain percentage. Or maybe sellers would get more competitive in their service in order to climb the ranks? (Although, perhaps some vendors may leave harmful feedback to hurt vendors higher than them).
I also want to know how much of a vendor's feedback is from the same person (although maybe that's unknowable if creating new buying accounts is free). I'd be interested in how many unique buyers a vendor has, vs repeat buyers (or is that factored into the seller rank algorithm?). Maybe it could just show the % of repeat buyers a vendor has.
Now, I guess LE would also be interested in such a list, but I'm sure they could make a similar one with a little more work. Would such a list be too risky and does it make it too easy for LE? Would they even be able to do anything if they knew how many buyers a vendor has had? If a seller does not send from their actual home address, does it even matter if LE buys from them? I suppose LE could order from closer and closer addresses to the vendor to figure out where they were sending from, and maybe put potential drop locations under surveillance. Or try to get prints or DNA off a package. Or am I just being paranoid?
I think this request goes along well with the following ones, as far as listing vendors and coloring their names or putting icons (or alt-text) (or more info like vendor(#37 98% 50)) by their names and being able to sort the list:
Official Vendor/Buyer Verification
http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=7189.0
display more informative seller ratings
http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=7037.0
Sort by Number of Transactions
http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=858.0
A way to find seller's profile on SR
http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=2067.0
Silk Road Stats
(suggests top 10 sellers, top 10 bestselling items)
http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=2742.0
GOLD seller rating
http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=277.0
And perhaps buyers could also add personal "reminders" next to seller names.
Thoughts?
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I personally wouldn't be comfortable with such a feature.
It's really hard finding a balance between safety and convenience on a site like this, but as far as this kind of information goes, I'd prefer LE do their own damn data scraping.
For now I'd just bookmark your favorite sellers
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If a list of all sellers isn't feasible, would it be okay if the product listings showed the vendor's name like this:
Vendor(#5 100% 250+)
(showing rank, feedback, transactions)
..as suggested in this thread?
http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=7037.0
..so buyers wouldn't have to click through to every vendor profile? (although buyers probably should eventually)