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Originally Posted by compos mentis
One possible idea; have a vendor feedback forum.
When someone asks about a vendor, require (as is policy) no vendor bashing. Only positive feedback can be posted.
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That kind of makes the whole idea of a feedback section useless.
A feedback section should allow good, bad, or neutral feedback at all times. It has to be open and honest with as little censoring as possible.
If you only allowed positive feedback, what purpose would that serve? A feedback section that only allows good feedback does more harm to people (the ones spending the money), than not having one at all.
Say a vendor (or even a regular member) screws a bunch of people over time and time again, then when he thinks his back is almost against the wall he goes above and beyond for the next couple of people. Those two people will post all great things about their experience, so then more people will give them a shot and the circle will continue
If that seems far fetched, it's not. I've seen that a bunch of times on a couple of other forums.