Scam Alerts

[Surviving]

Idk again it's late and I'm thinking of alot of stuff.

So basically if a user has a scam report on their profile or under their name when they post it could say something like 'User has a Scam Report Against them. DWC.'

PROS
Members can easily see if they should be careful when dealing with someone.
Could prevent people mass exit scamming to an extent.
Less chance of a scammer scamming multiple times.

Cons
Not all scam reports are actually the person that is reported fault.
Scam reports are already public however it would further warn people to be careful when dealing with certain users.

 

[Ally]

This has been suggested in the past, and denied numerous times. I'll find some links.

Edit: recent ones:

https://www.mc-market.org/threads/409664/
https://www.mc-market.org/threads/345981/

 

[Surviving]

Yeah I saw micks reasoning behind not having it's, I've seen it on another forum before just thought it would be much more convenient for users however I am not exactly sure how hard this would be to implement hence why Mick may not agree with it.

 

[Surviving]

He is not implementing this due to the fact that it may hinder people from selling if they have a caution tag. Just because a scam report is made on someone doesn't mean the person was involved and/or scammed. It simply isn't plausible to add a caution tag for those reasons.

You need to properly take into account the pros and cons, the risk of some one getting scammed in comparison to someone dealing a little more cautious with a user while they have a scam report open, even if there is a chance they did not scam it's better than the risk of users getting scammed in my opinion.

 

[Surviving]

I would understand where you are coming from, however, Kram is on top of the scam reports. Reports are being published daily and within hours of being made. Members are able to go to someone's profile, click their previous user names and go to the search bar and type "(user name here) Scam Report".

I know that there us already ways to check it. However, not everyone thinks like this, if they see good rep they may not think to check scam reports. Further, this suggestion is all about making it easier for users of the forums to make sure who they are dealing with has not got a scam report against them. If scam reports are getting resolved faster than ever then I feel that be there the reason to put this forward because if the person has not actually scammed then they will have not have the tag for long and therefore not have as large of an effect on their sales.

 

[jayt387]

Idk again it's late and I'm thinking of alot of stuff.

So basically if a user has a scam report on their profile or under their name when they post it could say something like 'User has a Scam Report Against them. DWC.'

PROS
Members can easily see if they should be careful when dealing with someone.
Could prevent people mass exit scamming to an extent.
Less chance of a scammer scamming multiple times.

Cons
Not all scam reports are actually the person that is reported fault.
Scam reports are already public however it would further warn people to be careful when dealing with certain users.

I disagree and here is why, what is the point of it like seriously so we have a tag that just goes on the user. When we can easily go to there profile and find out. It’s not even that hard it takes 3 extra seconds too click on there damn profile.

 

[Mick]

This has been suggested several times and denied.
https://www.mc-market.org/threads/345981/#post-3415788

Scam Reports are all caught up and Kram is getting them up for the public to see within hours of each report being created so all anyone has to do is look for the scam report under someone's current or previous names (in case they have changed it since the report went public)

Denied, thanks for the suggestion.