Monty hasn't been able to rate me for over 4-5 months now, if that's what you're implying.
and Monty & I hardly ever take advantage of our ratings to ask for special treatment. All we're saying is that people who have less than 1000 ratings are far more likely to scam than people with over 1000. I don't see how that's illogical? If someone dedicates a lot of time to the website, enough time to build their reputation up to that point, then surely that means they're far less likely to throw their accounts away by scamming someone, right?
And it's up to the mods/admins to prevent someone from abusing ratings to the extent you're talking about. If someone just randomly joined the site and got up to 1000 ratings out of nowhere, people would be suspicious. I remember people being suspicious of me back when I joined and got a lot of ratings, despite most of those ratings being legitimate.
There are a few things we look for in people we deal with:
- Conduct. For important deals, we look through a member's post history, or consider times we have seen them posting. If we feel their conduct makes them seem untrustworthy, we usually do not deal with them.
- Ratings. If a member has a large amount of ratings, we consider that reflective of their status within the community and feel they're less likely to scam.
- Vouches. If a member has lots of vouches, including the rating, posts on their profile, and posts on their threads, we are far more likely to deal with them.
- Join Date. If a member joined a long time ago, it's unlikely they'd randomly just decide to scam us and get banned from the site.
- Posts. If a member has a lot of posts (1500+) then they've invested a lot of time into building their status into the community. This makes it seem unlikely to us that they'd scam. Not impossible, however.
