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Originally posted by crypticfreak1:
Does anyone ever worry that when they have a large number of refs and find out a lot of people have been banned that it will look bad for them. What I mean is that I have over 300 refs and I have over 30 additional people I have traded with that have been banned. If Banned refs don't count towards refs, not only does it lower our ref number but it also makes people question us which they shouldn't have to do. Even though our ref number does not reflect the number of banned refs we have people can still look at our ref list and see how many people we have traded with who have been banned and they may question that and of course most of us will not have answers as to why our refs have been banned. How about if all our refs that have been banned are banned with a reason next to their name. When you look at a banned ref on your ref list you will see that their ref number is gone. How about if you leave their ref number up to show that the person was banned but may have been a newbe, or may have been a long time member who got banned by mistake or something like that. And then include a short description of why the person was banned. That way people will not question us as to why we have banned refs.

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Anyone who questions my reputation because of banned refs is someone I don't wish to deal with anyway. If you have a large number of refs, you're going to have banned refs on there, it's a fact of life, and I don't see anyone being stupid enough to use that as a basis for not trusting someone.

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Look at a person that's got high refs and has been here for a long time (say, 3+ years), you're bound to see some people he/she traded with a long time ago eventually get banned. It doesn't mean that person was out to go on a ripping spree with everyone, just that once when that person was a good, honorable trader the transaction went fine.

If you see a newer trader that has a slew of recently traded with people that got banned, yeah, I'd be concerned. If you look at a person's refs and see that they may have had a few removed but the trades were in 2001, 2002, 2003 and so on then I'd still feel confident that person is a good trader regardless of their total refcount being lowered by a few idiots.

You can always e-mail the people the person traded with if you're that concerned about their reputation and you see their refcount being lowered by banned people.

Have to add in, my total recorded trades is 130 but 13 of those don't count because the other person got banned. Does this make me any less of a trader regardless of how long ago I registered onto here? (I don't even want to count Tha Gunslinga's or anyone else on the top 100 most refs that have any banned to find out what their real recorded trades are.)

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