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Discussion => Silk Road discussion => Topic started by: FloatingThroughGravity on November 10, 2012, 08:38 pm
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Firstly I am not paranoid about the outages I have been a member for over a year and this has happened before sporadically and it has never been permanent. With that said. I do feel there needs to be better and more strict standards for both buyers and sellers if SR is going to continue to be viable service going forward. Two things come to mind.
1. Make the barriers of entry to become a seller more stringent. Namely, increase the fees to become a seller and also limit the number of additional sellers allowed per week. I think a one time fee of something around 125-150 is cheap. This allows any idiot with a small amount of money to become a seller. It also allows sellers that build up a good reputations to be able to take BC from a bunch of people through FE and then just dash and open up a new account. It seems like this happens all to often. Now even the most honest seller can do this practice. It's easy to split with thousands of dollars worth of bitcoins and then just open up a new account a few weeks later. I know the unlimited addition of new sellers keeps competition steady and in theory prices down but I think it also increases the idiot factor and that will lead to only bad things in the long run.
2.LIMIT THE NUMBER OF NEW MEMBERS. As it stands now all members should be grandfathered in but there needs to be a cap. on new membership going forward. I don't see any reason to have an unlimited number of users. I think this can only lead to major problems. Some high school kids are going to either A. die or get B. get busted and some parents are going to make it a mission to get SR shut down. Don't underestimate the power of an enraged mother. We saw what MADD did in the 80s. IMO the last thing SR needs is going up against a mandate from the public.
I have thought about these issues for a while and the downtime has just really crystallized these feelings. :)
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I think a deposit by the seller would be a good way to do this. Make them pay a fee, and then they slowly get their deposit paid back over a year or so as they make good transactions. Make it big, and in addition to the new seller fee.
As for limiting membership, maybe to a number per day but there should NOT be any limits on WHO can use SR.
That being said, the hand-holding, and people instructing teenagers how to have drugs sent to their door needs to stop on the clear web. I (sound like a grandpa here) remember having to figure out how to get BTCs w/o Mt. Gox, and just using traders on here. Rough times, but that barrier would have kept me from placing an order if I was an idiot. When you hear people saying "Well how much cocaine is in that ecstasy" you know the general population is just a little too stupid to be trusted with what you can find on here. Already there's some news about people taking 2c-I they ordered thinking it was MDMA (because they really are THAT stupid) and dying. Possibly make people take a quiz to gain access to different drug classes?
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I think a deposit by the seller would be a good way to do this. Make them pay a fee, and then they slowly get their deposit paid back over a year or so as they make good transactions. Make it big, and in addition to the new seller fee.
As for limiting membership, maybe to a number per day but there should NOT be any limits on WHO can use SR.
That being said, the hand-holding, and people instructing teenagers how to have drugs sent to their door needs to stop on the clear web. I (sound like a grandpa here) remember having to figure out how to get BTCs w/o Mt. Gox, and just using traders on here. Rough times, but that barrier would have kept me from placing an order if I was an idiot. When you hear people saying "Well how much cocaine is in that ecstasy" you know the general population is just a little too stupid to be trusted with what you can find on here. Already there's some news about people taking 2c-I they ordered thinking it was MDMA (because they really are THAT stupid) and dying. Possibly make people take a quiz to gain access to different drug classes?
Or we could let them continue and evolve as a species.
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I think a deposit by the seller would be a good way to do this. Make them pay a fee, and then they slowly get their deposit paid back over a year or so as they make good transactions. Make it big, and in addition to the new seller fee.
As for limiting membership, maybe to a number per day but there should NOT be any limits on WHO can use SR.
That being said, the hand-holding, and people instructing teenagers how to have drugs sent to their door needs to stop on the clear web. I (sound like a grandpa here) remember having to figure out how to get BTCs w/o Mt. Gox, and just using traders on here. Rough times, but that barrier would have kept me from placing an order if I was an idiot. When you hear people saying "Well how much cocaine is in that ecstasy" you know the general population is just a little too stupid to be trusted with what you can find on here. Already there's some news about people taking 2c-I they ordered thinking it was MDMA (because they really are THAT stupid) and dying. Possibly make people take a quiz to gain access to different drug classes?
no vendor will pay a bigger amount because they would just sell IRL way less risk then messing with the mail IMO
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Preety much what im saying, new members need a reference atleast an limit the number of new members. Way too many kids under 18 on silkroad, few overdosed and hired private detectives as said on topix/xanax.com. Customs is working with the government, they can spot the usual methods of delivery. Sorry but certain countries like australia shouldn't be sent anything, too many risky behavior happening. If it continues silkroad will end up just like every single online market shutdown in the last yr.
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2.LIMIT THE NUMBER OF NEW MEMBERS. As it stands now all members should be grandfathered in but there needs to be a cap. on new membership going forward. I don't see any reason to have an unlimited number of users. I think this can only lead to major problems. Some high school kids are going to either A. die or get B. get busted and some parents are going to make it a mission to get SR shut down. Don't underestimate the power of an enraged mother. We saw what MADD did in the 80s. IMO the last thing SR needs is going up against a mandate from the public.
The problem with this is that it should not matter who the receiver is on a transaction. Any vendor must assume the receiver can be LE or an underage kid with a gung-ho mother, or even a recently turned confidential informant. If there are weaknesses in the system, it will not be solved with exchanging anonymity for a vetting process that is not 100.0% sure for buyers. As part of being anonymous, a smart buyer should change up SR logins every once in a while. Putting a barrier on this is not a good thing.