Silk Road forums
Support => Feature requests => Topic started by: RedShirtBrownPants on August 25, 2012, 07:37 am
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Sorting by price! What good use is it to me to see a bunch of 1000BTC listings when I never spend more than 20 at a time?
A simple minimum and maximum range would be most ideal; I'd be happy with just a maximum. JUST TELL ME WHY WE DON'T HAVE IT!
I'm this close to just learning how to do it myself and working for SR :P
I could potentially see how the system could be abused; like on ebay where the price looks great until you realize that they jacked up the shipping!
But just like ebay you can have the "price+shipping" option.
For buyers, this is what I perceive as the current most important and useful feature to be offered. Not to mention probably the easiest of features to implement.
Other than that, I have two other suggestions (stop reading here if you don't give a fuck):
1) better vendor rating system. I'd like to see separate ratings for the product, stealth/speed/shipping quality and comms.
---it's great to see so many vendors with 5/5, but I have to sift through hundreds of feedback before finding how good the actual product is!
---or what if the product is great, stealth shipping but you basically never hear from the vendor or they're a total asshole? Some people here just like to get their product and leave, but I appreciate those that go the extra mile and help you out!
2) Feedback response capabilities: this would be especially useful for the odd "user never got back to me and I have no product"
---if both parties can update their feedback, then I would know if the buyer is being genuine or just trying to extort the vendor
I'd like to end with praise and criticism to both buyers and sellers:
Sellers: I love it when you respond to my messages in a timely manner, even if it is just a "sorry I don't ship there or do customs"; at least I'm not sitting around refreshing your vendor pages to see if you updated that.
--but I hate you for making me FE; moreso when you're a new user with few transactions. You have not shown me that I can trust you; at least with F2F I can get you back if you screw me over.
Buyers: I ADORE those who put ACTUAL feedback (I see so many "FE will update later" from 2mo. ago or something) with insight to the packaging, product and/or general vendor's awesomeness. Pretty much anything other than FE is nice.
--stop being an asshole and trying to scam the vendors, you're ruining it for me, for you, and EVERYONE else around you. I hope you step on a lego you dumb cunt.
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Everyone wants it, so why don't we have it yet? I just wanna know the reasoning.
I have been here for a while now and I have not seen many improvements regarding the website. I might not be the most frequent user but so far none of the CRQs, that are mentioned in this forum (a lot of them very reasonable and likely not much work to implement) have been implemented.
Instead there was a visual overhaul of the whole site, which made it slower to browse (more base64 encoded pictures in the html) and did not add any new features. It shows where the priorities are.
So my guess is, they just don't care and do whatever they want. The Feature Requests on here repeat in an infinite loop, I don't know why people still bother adding them over and over again. Once the users realize that they actually pay the staff for running this site and demand change, it will happen. Until then, don't expect too much :)
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Right now I am trying to bump all of these price sort threads. This is such a useful feature. Maybe if everyone who wants the feature donates a coin than we can get it. We just need to message DPR telling him everyone who wants this will donate a coin if he adds it. We get a wallet address and than he does it. This is the only way I see anything getting done.
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Everyone wants it, so why don't we have it yet? I just wanna know the reasoning.
I have been here for a while now and I have not seen many improvements regarding the website. I might not be the most frequent user but so far none of the CRQs, that are mentioned in this forum (a lot of them very reasonable and likely not much work to implement) have been implemented.
I assume they have a KTDO priority--keep the doors open. The small finicky things that are "nice to haves" but don't preclude us from doing business should be a distant second to anything done to harden the site, ensure its safety and its customers' safety. I don't think I could blame DPR if he was chilling back in a hammock with a daquiri, but I have a feeling that's not how he's spending his time. I can tell by his past posts that a lot of his personal ideology is finding expression through the Road and I think it's myopic to assume that it involves sitting back and idling. Good work DPR (and crew?).
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I agree. Bump
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and guns.
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I assume they have a KTDO priority--keep the doors open. The small finicky things that are "nice to haves" but don't preclude us from doing business should be a distant second to anything done to harden the site, ensure its safety and its customers' safety. I don't think I could blame DPR if he was chilling back in a hammock with a daquiri, but I have a feeling that's not how he's spending his time. I can tell by his past posts that a lot of his personal ideology is finding expression through the Road and I think it's myopic to assume that it involves sitting back and idling. Good work DPR (and crew?).
Excellent point(s), Owenk!
The list of features that folks want will always be a bottomless well. Here as it is everywhere else. That's not to say the ideas aren't good. Many are great! But prioritizing them is critical to SR's (continued) success and the safety of everyone here.
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Maybe someone could take the initiative and contact support with this link or idea directly. The idea has been said a 1000x and never a peep heard from admins on this.
Why not try to get a real answer.
I'm convinced they do not even read the feature request forum.
It's unfortunate.
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Good idea. also, I hate having getting excited about a cheap listing, then seeing that shipping is more than the item price. We should be able to see shipping in the search results.
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Sorting by price -
I really feel like this is a good addition, but it's not 100% needed on my end, but it would definitely be a welcome addition. It seems like something that SR should have started with in the first place. Unless they have a specific reason they are not implementing it, I wouldn't be surprised if we see it in the next big SR update (can't wait! :D)
Better vendor rating -
I 100% agree with you on that part. Having a bunch of sections with 1-5 star selection. For example: Shipping time, Stealth, Communication, and Product Quality (Is it as good as the vendor says?). Then have a section for comments like what we already see. They could then add up all the scores over time, and then you could see multiple things about vendors. (This vendor has bad communication, but is spot on other sections) (Vendor has pretty good communication but shipping time is really long) Things like that. Then they could go an extra step and average the numbers together to get an overall rating.
Feedback Response -
Again 100% agree. This NEEDS to be implemented! That way a vendor can directly respond to a bad review so future customers could see if he made a mistake or whatever and corrected it. SR admin should also be able to alter the rate IF the vendor righted himself and the customer wants to. Also will add more communication from customer to vendor = A BIG PLUS! Vendor seems more "personal" responding to a satisfied customer with 5 star ratings all around.
Bumping it up! I'm sure most if not all will be implemented ;)