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Support => Feature requests => Topic started by: drugfather on December 17, 2011, 10:56 pm

Title: Official Vendor/Buyer Verification Feauture Suggestion
Post by: drugfather on December 17, 2011, 10:56 pm
The idea comes from how the pirate bay has verified accounts...

I believe that there should also be some sort of user verification system for vendors and buyers.


 
I'm thinking it should work like this:



Once a user completes a certain # of successful transactions, automatically they become a verified account.

If a VENDOR becomes a verified account, I'm thinking that that they should be put in sort of database/list to be overlooked and see if they qualify for "Official Verification."


For example, SR User X has done a number of successful # of transactions, once he had reached the threshold for verification status, he gets either a special icon by his name or a different color to denote that he was a verified account.

If user User X was a vendor, he should be put into a database that SR and/or the moderators and/or the community can view and decide whether or not this user can get official SR verification status. If community decided, should be done in poll form. Once the verdict was out, then it would be up to SR himself or the moderators to decide whether user becomes "official SR vendor."



After verification status was complete, user gets a special icon/ color dedicated to their name. (both users and vendors) If it was a vendor, they'd be on a public list of official vendors. Verified users should get some special privileges such as a discount on purchases etc. Official vendors should get some special privileges too such as commission discount.
Also, there could be different tiers in this such as: user, trusted user/seller, official user/seller ETC and/or a user could apply to be a verified user, which would be a process which would be community decided, but moderator overlooked....


Optionally a user could have a trust level such as the forum does with the number of posts they have.

The reason I believe this should be put into act as fast as possible is because fake feedback exists and this would be a way for users and buyers to be easily aware of the trust level of the people they are dealing with.

Let me know what you guys think on this :)

If at all possible, I'd like SR to see this. It needs to happen.