Hi, I understand your effort to do market threads more comfortable and safe for serious businessmen. You did great amount of hard work. But I have one more question: how can I protect myself against scams and frauds? It was always part of trading on internet. The new system is protecting the trade and payment. But what if I buy link on some site for 1 year and after 3 months is it removed? There was plenty of tricky brokers in the past and you was doing great job by banning them. The old way for me was to give cheaters negative feedback and hope they will move away. ::: But how can I put negative feedback on them now? ::: Sry, for noob question or if I repeat some existing threads.
It appears that DP has had a bit of a philosophical shift from negative feedbacks to positive likes. The way it will work is traders with many likes will appear as more reputable than those with less. Conversely you can leave a positive message on their profile message wall. Those with none will appear as less than desirable to trade with. So traders with few positive *credits*(likes) will find it harder to trade and will move on.
After initial few days of surfing the new DP, here are some observations as I see it - -'The change' was definitely required, as it has drastically reduced the spam posts (specially threads in BST). - People are now trying to make posts that make sense and useful which is good thing. But - I am definitely missing the 'iTrader', which could surely speak the genuineness of trader. Now it will be quite difficult to spot scammer as there is no guarantee that member with many 'Like' will not scam you! And don't forget BST section is one of the biggest reason behind DP's popularity. - Before there was an icon beside every users by which we could easily determine if he/she is 'online' now, with new changes I need to click the profile page to find that. - 'Member Since' tag was also useful to determine the member reputation, with changes we need to go to the profile page to determine that.
Post count and likes are no judge of whether someone will scam you or not, so i'd be wary of that. Though i suppose neither is iTrader. A scammer only needs to scam once, and the bigger the reputation they build up, the more people will believe they can trust them, and the bigger scam they can pull off. Always be wary in the BST, regardless of the nice looking numbers next to someone's name.
I dont agree with sentence - A scammer only needs to scam once. The are plenty of forms how to harm and sometimes established members dont hold the word.
Honestly, my best advice is to not buy links... Buying links is a fool's game (even if they stay up for the full duration).
Additionally the no dupe threads rule will be easier to enforce. You need to show your domain and can only have one per domain. Negative posts on that thread will stick around forever. Don't just read the sales thread you are buying from - read all their threads, actually, read all their posts. Get a sense of the seller's character.
The greatest trick the scammer ever pulled, was convincing the world he didn't exist. Or something like that.
You can leave feedback here: https://forums.digitalpoint.com/marketplace/feedback Even retrospective for anything purchased under Instant Pay. When you leave feedback there is the option of good, neutral and bad. Obviously, you can also leave a post in the thread where business was conducted (always a good thing to do, IMO). Under the old or new system, due diligence is equally important. It always is when conducting any kind of business. (Link buying/selling is a bad business to be in. When you do it, you need to accept the multitude of risks.)
I would suggest every buyer perhaps being educated enough to use a service that will recover money taken by a scammer example: -Credit card companies will take the money away if it's fraud -Paypal will investigate I've never depended on feedback but instead had the confidence knowing if someone screws me, they will find the bigger surprise when I get my money back.