The good buyer/seller list needs to be replaced

shit that didnt work

Hey NS

in my opinion the good buyer/seller list is out dated. what i am about to show you is how my local mountain bike forum organizes good buyers and good sellers. what they do is have a feature in the users profile that shows a member rank (alot like karma) and the amount of pos and neg feed back, that way if you want to buy something form a member you will know exactly how reliable they are. this is what it looks like.

note i have no rank because i haven't sold any thing, and you need to click on the image to get a better view of how it works.

The PHPBB engine is much much different to this site. It would be a coding nightmare.

True, however a system much similiar to that would work much better than a multi page thread saying weither or not someone is a good buyer/ seller.

well they did karma well i'm sure they could do a buyer seller list similar

Karma takes many different thinkgs into account, so peer-to-peer rating doesn't have a heavy influence.

In the case of buying selling, the rating should only be based on the transaction, and you don't want it to be available to everyone (Only the buyer or seller should be able to rate each other) - therefore there would need to be a system in place to measure when a transaction takes place, then giving the buyer+seller an option to rate each other..

It would probably be less complex than the karma system, but it's still a big job for it to be effective. Then there are all the past sales which should be taken into account (which would be hard to recover the details of), (The good buyer/seller list is out of date and not all sales are recorded)

A lot to think about..for the timebeing, i'll base my opinion of a seller on their contribution to the website and karma.

This is very true, what i was suggesting is a viewing format similar to the picture i posted, what way if a user wants to by skis from another member, they know exactly how reliable that member is.