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Tranderas
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 posted November 26, 2009 10:34 PM   Click Here to See the Profile for Tranderas Click Here to Email Tranderas Click to send Tranderas an Instant Message Edit/Delete Message Reply With Quote View Tranderas's Trade Auction or SaleView Tranderas's Trade Auction or Sale
Okay nder, before you go off, hear me out.

It occurs to me that the ref system isn't perfect, nor is the BTA/CBT system. It can be tedious to scan through the BTA board every time we want to trade, and since the average person is smart enough not to send a ref check to someone that they tried to pull a fast one on, things like not sending when they were sending first won't show up in ref checks.

So, what I propose is that, either in the profile or attached to a link under the person's name (right where their number of refs is, next to their post) there be a history of smacks a person received for bad trading practices. It doesn't have to be a full karma readout, just the date it happened and a few words about what happened (ie "11/09/2009: didn't send; was sending first"; "11/22/09: backed out of confirmed deal" etc). It would simplify the process of deciding who to trade with- past warnings could easily be compared with volume of refs to weigh risks.

 
nderdog
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 posted November 28, 2009 08:33 PM   Click Here to See the Profile for nderdog Click Here to Email nderdog Send a private message to nderdog Click to send nderdog an Instant MessageVisit nderdog's Homepage  Edit/Delete Message Reply With Quote View nderdog's Have/Want ListView nderdog's Have/Want List
Just use the search feature if you want to check up on someone. It's going to give you a much more complete and accurate idea of their trading behaviors, showing a lot of things that would never show up based on a slice of karma activity. Having Leshrac have to code new stuff and making us have to do additional work for every trading-related karma smack just to let people save about 3 seconds to get a misleading picture of someone's trading history based solely on karma smacks rather than seeing the full picture of their BTA activities just seems like a really bad idea.

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