Silk Road forums
Support => Feature requests => Topic started by: moonbear on December 25, 2011, 05:49 pm
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I think you should consider banning scammers on SR. It's about reputation. I realize that if you have half a brain you won't get ripped. But when noobs do get scammed, it tarnishes SR's reputation. I think this idea would make for better business overall on SR.
Another thought: Consider the idea of selling bitcoins on SR officially. You'd make money, and it would be quicker and easier for SR members. My friends at school said the main reason they don't use SR is that it's too complicated. If you made it easier for them, that could benefit SR.
Neither of these suggestions would directly help the ordinary user, but it would help the market on SR. Hopefully these thoughts help in some way, but they probably won't.
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scammers can just make new accounts if they're banned and start over with a clean slate. stay in escrow, require pics of the product with username, use pgp. all you need to do.
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scammers can just make new accounts if they're banned and start over with a clean slate. stay in escrow, require pics of the product with username, use pgp. all you need to do.
The scammer would have to pay $150 for a new merchant account. Good point though, they'd have a clean slate if they did.
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Hmm . . . Let's make it harder to scam. What if . . . we only allow noobs to purchase from trusted vendors. A vendor is considered "trusted" when they have reached x transactions and they stay trusted only if their feedback score is greater than or equal to 90; As a buyer's knowledge of Silk Road increases -- which is itself a function of the number of threads read on silk road together with the number of transactions they have engaged in along with knowledge test results -- more vendors become accessible to the buyer (based on score.)
A buyer expertise score of 0 = only vendors with an evaluation of 100. A buyer score for 20 = all vendors with an evaluation of 80 - 100. Etc.
In this way noobs are incapable of buying from untrusted vendors and thus shouldn't get scammed. Conversely, SR veterans will have increased access to vendors depending on their score. Put another way, new vendors will only be able to sell to veteran silk road buyers thus they themselves will get scammed less. It works both ways.
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Another thought: Consider the idea of selling bitcoins on SR officially. You'd make money, and it would be quicker and easier for SR members. My friends at school said the main reason they don't use SR is that it's too complicated. If you made it easier for them, that could benefit SR.
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The idea is good but don't you think that it isn't bad if not everybody can use the silkroad. The more people join to the Silkroad the more popular gets the site. In the end the wrong people see what's going on on silkroad and try to close it. I had good times on SR until to day and I hope that there will be good times in the future, too.
My opinion is better less people and not much popularity so the Silk Road can be the anonymous market place for me and other members. I hope silkroad never closes.