Fix this please?

This is a free market. People can create and choose what to put on their vouch thread. Hell they don't even need to have a vouch thread. If you have an issue with someone posting "I have 50k vouches" and you only see 100 on the vouch thread. Report them and let staff handle it.

If a trader wants to become more responsible and post all the vouches on their thread, then so be it. But noone should be forced to, it's a free market.

The problem is at this moment the staff doesn't do anything about it

 

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The problem is at this moment the staff doesn't do anything about it

yeah, because as you've said, it's really hard to track down vouches in cases like this. i have definitely edited titles to reflect accurate vouch counts, and i wholeheartedly approve of your suggestion, but people use vouches to bump their threads prior to the 8-hour limits, which puts us in a tough position as staff - we can't reasonably infract everyone who posts a vouch on a seller's thread - and thus this is a grey area.

might be an interesting thought to run past richard actually; i wonder what he thinks about this (my guess is probably "it's a free market and people can post where they did business, as long as they don't post twice," but that makes keeping track of vouches difficult). taking a step back though, vouches are a somewhat intangible measure of trust, and it should be up to users trading people with vouches to determine the trustworthiness of the vouched users based on quantity/quality/etc. of vouches, in addition to other factors; if someone's lying about their vouch count, can you really trust them? and while i wish we could clarify what vouch counts really are, it's tough to do that in our current environment

 

My opinion is that if someone claims he has X vouches he should be able to prove that he has X vouches (and they should be easily countable, not spread all over the threads). If he can't he simply shouldn't put the number of vouches in the title.
By the logic of having random numbers of vouches people could also put a random donation amount in the thread title?

It should not be up to any external sources to count up a business's vouches. The business should have documented proof of their claims. I understand the practice of estimating vouches; however, I simply do not agree with it. You references Alex2012. He quotes every single vouch up to 6,000 to be able to say he has 6,000 vouches:

http://www.sythe.org/vouches-forum/1364474-theresas-vouches-11.html

Comb through his pages and you'll see he quotes them all.

 

It should not be up to any external sources to count up a business's vouches. The business should have documented proof of their claims. I understand the practice of estimating vouches; however, I simply do not agree with it. You references Alex2012. He quotes every single vouch up to 6,000 to be able to say he has 6,000 vouches:

http://www.sythe.org/vouches-forum/1364474-theresas-vouches-11.html

Comb through his pages and you'll see he quotes them all.

I never knew people did this? Is there a specific reason why not to list them all in 1 post? Or is it because 6k in one post would be too much for the page ?

 

I never knew people did this? Is there a specific reason why not to list them all in 1 post? Or is it because 6k in one post would be too much for the page ?

There's usually a limit to the amount of characters & BBCode you can use in a single forum post. You're going to hit one of those two things if you're trying to quote 6k posts.

 

Total support i'm sick of people bumping their thread over mine, It very hard to be beginner with all these people bumping their thread up with their vouches -.-