More trusted, early join date? Or amount of vouches?

I've always wondered what people thought on opinions on who should be trusted more. Some one with a good amount of vouches? (20-40) or someone who has been on the website for about 3 or 4 years?

I wonder what the rest of sythe thinks.

 

I don't look at either as the sole determining factor.

I look at EVERYTHING. Vouches(Number of, Value/Quality of), Join date, and Posts(Amount of, Quality of, Helpfulness of) equally. I consider everything and make my decision from there.

You would be a fool to trust someone based on JUST one factor (be it join date, number of vouches, posts, etc)

 

If I had to pick one it would be vouches, join date means nothing. Someone could've made an account years ago, found it again and then decided to scam.

 

anyone can create a sythe accoumt, completely forget about it and come back and say they are trusted cus they have an earlu join date. such as saying in there signature "trading since 2007" and they only have 5 or so vouches and are an active member, cannot stand those people

same thing goes with donation ranks. jsut cus you have $200 bucks to blow a week after you join, don't make you trusted than that other guy who joined the same day as you

 

Same as n4n0. This poll is not going anywhere really.

100 vouches for upgrades cannot be compared to 100 vouches of 200M gold trading.

1000 spam posts cannot be compared with 1000 smart, helpful posts.

And so on.

 

Im from 2010 and I have about 10 vouches from actual trades, yet some seem to trust me more than others (Mod helps >_>), which makes the point that those arent the defining features of trust, I wouldnt trust someone with 2008 date and 50 vouches who had a terrible attitude or odd behaviour.

Theres a lot of factors that come in to play.. To answer the question though, I'd probably trust the guy with more vouches than the one who's join date is earlier.

 

Join date is pretty useless. The only reason my join date is 2007 is because I created an account to buy a pin. I got scammed and didn't come back until December 2009, when I actually started doing trades.

In answer to your question, I'd say 20-40 vouches is better than simply having an early join date

 

well tbh, im a kinda new player and people trust me on the maxed accounts.. so i dont know what it is.. im nice and i only have a few vouch's but when people say to me when im done is 'Your a nice guy, ill refer my friends'. so i think it is if your nice and willing to wait for people and earn your trust.

 

Depend, on the vouchs buy amount and activeness it is to me.

 

Vouches is more important for me.

 

I agree with what N4n0 said about having to base your judgement of a persons character on more than just 1 thing. I always look at a number of things to determine whether or not that person "feels" trustworthy to me, including simple things like the way they talk to me.

If I had to pick between the 2 options you suggested, I would definitely think vouches are more important than join date. You could have been on Sythe for 4 years just lurking, hardly posting or trading, and then you decide to scam once a good opportunity comes along.

 

That. I got global and the same day someone asked me to MM a $900 trade and I didn't have a single vouch. You really do need to take everything into consideration and not trust someone just because they are a mod. There have been plenty of mod scammers.

 

As much as I wish it weren't true....

 

Yea... Very sad times when sectional after sectional gets banned...

 

I just look at their past 50 posts, and the quality of their vouches
If they're posts are lol haha epic and lol gf that kid
then I think they're a spammer that really just wants to get postcount up because he thinks it's his sythe penis size -.-
If someone has 20 vouches, but they're all 100m+ trades with half going first to them and no complaints at all
and someone has 100 which are pins, tutorials and free account training, all either done via MM & them going first, with maybe a tutorial done with them getting a 30k payment going fist, I'd rather trade the 20 voucher, regardless of postcount or joindate.
I've seen some 2005's come back recently just to scam with their old join date [Remember the error where tonnes of scammers got unbanned etc? ]

Pretty much, quality > quantity , and join dates a little important, as long as they've been here for over 6 - 12 months ACTIVELY I'm fine with trading them.

For OMM's , I'd just pick the most trusted one with high end trades, but with trades 1m - 300m, I'd use any OMM as they wouldn't scam for such a low amount, considering the OMM app. If it's a $9000 for a set sort of trade, I'd try to go with an admin.

Also, donation can be helpful, as they usually wouldn't scam an amount equal to what they donated

 

Or even Global(s) for that matter.

 

Yea, which is why I say you shouldn't trust a new global with 0 vouches with $900.... Not that'd I'd scam ever but others would jump at the chance.

 

I look at everything, vouches aren't the only factor when it comes to trust.

 

Definitely vouches over join date but I would also be looking at the value of vouches and how active the user is and stuff like that.

 

I would say both matter. If it is an old member with a decent amount of vouches, then you can definatelly trust him.

But if it is an old member with no vouches at all, then there is a question.