Allow The Reciever of a Feedback to Submit Evidence

[Zyger]

It has been over 11 months since the evidence upload feature has been added, as well as the rule which requires our members upload their evidence via that feature. Any legacy feedback which has not been updated to meet our current requirements by the 14th of December, including attached evidence, will be purged from our system for everyone. We highly recommend all users to message those who have left feedback on them that no longer meets our new requirements to update the feedback to the new standard.

A majority of the people who have left others legacy feedback in the past are no longer active, meaning that it's impossible to update them as the system currently is, which would lead to another purge of the feedback for long term members.

The ability for the receivers of feedback to be able to submit evidence of the deal is necessary, especially now, since they're going to be removed if the feedback senders are inactive.

This is largely a burden for the older members of the forum, since they've been here longer meaning that more members would have been banned over that time, meaning that they'd lose a lot of reputation from members being banned, and then to lose even more on top of that due to people being inactive is likely to make a lot of long term members leave the site.

This seriously needs to be added ASAP.

 

[FisherGee]

They could also just let enforce the rule starting today; instead of taking it from the past. I can't find proof for all 150+ deals I've made and are going to be removed.

 

[LonelyTree]

I don't get it. I've been doing deals for years and now all these reps are basically meaningless? Please inform me how this helps out the community cause I don't really understand. There's so many flaws to this new update...

 

[Lotus]

Already planned I believe It’s a good suggestion.

 

[Zyger]

Already planned I believe It’s a good suggestion.

Hopefully it's added before the 14th otherwise a lot of people will lose their reputations, and thanks.

 

[Lotus]

Hopefully it's added before the 14th otherwise a lot of people will lose their reputations, and thanks.

As Justis said:

Any feedback which gets deleted is always able to be restored so long as it will comply with our rules. The two week grace period was provided mostly ceremonially. You’ll still be able to view your deleted feedback and get it updated, even after the two weeks have ended.

Tldr; you can easily get the rep back after the 14th.

 

[Mick]

Back about a year ago we introduced some pretty radical changes to the way that we handle reputation. We made all reputation left by banned members be marked as uncounted in your reputation totals and disabled the reporting functionality to reduce abuse and targeted. The changes that we made were certainly controversial at the time, but looking back I'm a firm believer that the changes we made back then were the best that we could have made.

Our reputation system is very far from being perfect in its current state, and we fully recognise that. Since it's introduction we've changed many policies and spent countless hours developing new custom systems, such as disputing feedback.

At the moment we aren't planning to do any more development for our site until we can migrate to XF2. We're also not going to be making any changes to our policies surrounding reputation. Our system is stable at the moment, and making a change now when we're going to be redeveloping everything shortly isn't beneficial. Perhaps once we move to XF2 and have fixed all the bugs that come with that and have more time for some new development and to consider the impact that instituting new policies will result in.

Until then, I'll move this to denied. Once we migrate to XF2 if you feel that this is still relevant please create a new suggestion thread and we can look into it once again. Thank you to everyone for your support and criticism of our systems, it is definitely the best way for us to improve.

Thank you,