Ratings for User's trading?

lunar • 14 August 2014 at 8:56 PM

I had this little idea, and I'm sure @sarahsaurus and I talked a little bit about this a month ago. Something we just day dreamed about.
Credits to creating the questions for the stars: @marlen1994

The main start of this, since we cant trade CC, its very hard to know if the person is trust worthy with their trades. Especially if the user doesnt have a lot of trades in the past, but got CC, and really wants to trade that way. Usually the eggcave community recommends one another, but for those really skeptical, I feel this might add an interesting play onto trades.

You know how amazon and ebay have seller ratings? Why not traders have user ratings?
We could do stars, but of course it wont be anything like "shipping" or "packaging".

There could be a short review at the end of each trade (if you want to fill it out, so you dont have to do it for transfers, etc, ONLY serious user per user trade)

Questions can go: (Yes/No)
- Did you have a great experience trading?
- Was the transaction easy and smooth?
- Was it fast or slow? (Here there will be a 1-5 rating, one being slow, and five being fast)
- Would you recommend trading with this user to friends?
- Would you trade with this user again?

And there can be a comment section, you dont have to write a paragraph or full sentences, one could write.
"Great communication, fair offers, replies fast."

And the questions, and that 1-5 rating on the transaction will add up to 5 stars. A yes will get you a star, where a no wont add up at all. And the 1-5 will tally into it.
So for example, three out of five questions answered with yes = 3 stars. A four rating on the fast/slow part, will make a rating of 3.4.
If you have everything good, the fast/slow wont make it 5.5, it would just be 5 stars in total.

Okay, I know some people might think, what about side accounts? What if users give themselves a good name?
Aha, that is where there will be a rating history, where ONLY the user can privately see who wrote what and cant be erased. (I think option to make unknown username for a rating should be in effect, to protect privacy and confidentially).
Ratings and comments can not be edited, and side account mangling with the ratings is NOT taken lightly, and can be considered as cheating.
To the public, if one saw the comments, they can only see the 1st 2 letters of the trader's username (its an option).

If you were unhappy with your trade, try not to use mouthy words, or to put other people off entirely from trading from that user. Be neat and if you were unhappy all together, well, you probably didnt end up trading!
But if you did, you have the right to make is anonymous to the public and not display your username. Though note this, if you are unhappy about something in your trade, try to talk it a bit more with the user, and hopefully everyone can trade what they want for a great experience!

Ratings can be turned off for side accounts, so you dont even need to bother with that option, to spare yourself the trouble.
Where are these ratings located?
When you go onto a user's profile, click on their trades.
"Blahblah has 1 trade open, and a rating of 4.3 as a trader."
And the visitor can click on the stars next to the rating, and see reviews of the transactions, the top being most recent, and the oldest can be on another page linked on the bottom.

If you made it here I would be so grateful to know how you think about this idea 😊
I thought it would be great to help users who come back, and are skeptical about trading with I.O.Us, so trading could be made slightly more easier. And if you have anything else to add, I would love to see your mind run with other add ons, etc.
Vote in the poll before you leave! :]

marlen1994 • 14 August 2014 at 11:20 PM

@bliss

immortalraven • 14 August 2014 at 11:22 PM

@lunar
Where exactly do people vote or whatever for the user? On the trade lot after a trade? Or on the profile or something. Sorry there was so much information I got lost so yeah >.>
Also for people who have you blocked/you have them blocked if it's just like a profile thing or whatever how would that work? Some might just say bad if they don't like each other but the reason why they were blocked might actually be because of a bad trade or whatever but some might not be and just do that to take down your ratings. I have quite a few people blocked not cause of trades or anything like that mostly unless they kept under offering and not reading my lots and a lot of people have me blocked but not for trading reasons. Mostly I blocked em first or there were misunderstandings and then led arguments and such so they blocked me also. So how'd that work. People blocked can't rate? But then those who blocked/got blocked might have been because of a trade but some not. So yeah o3o

emilianagerson • 15 August 2014 at 8:04 AM

@lunar

I like this idea very much 😸 But really I never worry when trading for CC or travels. But this would be good for the people who do.