I hate the scammers.... with a deep burning passion. And sadly, I feel as though the majority of this site scams. I also hate the Chinese gold sellers who come on here with broken English and buy cheap gold and then scam others on there actual website.
Scammers and ppl who think the rein over you because they've been here for a longer time and have all these stupid vouch for training 1 - 30 in a skill and they make you go first =.=
I dislike the vouch system. I believe it is flawed and not working the way it was meant to work. The middle-man service is severely corrupt and seems like almost every few days you hear about another middle-man that scammed someone. If I were to suggest a way to clean this up. I would completely wash out and clean the forums it-self. I would implement new rules to trading. I would develop a type of "verified" vouch system. I would also keep my staff close knit and professional. Holding meetings everyday, exchanging phone numbers, and keeping address information in-cases of internet related theft. I would also make it even more difficult to become a middle-man. I think it would help weed out the bad and bring the better out in people. It may just be "game" property people are exchanging on this forum. However, some people take to their property more than others. Either way, property is property.
I don't like the new sythe motto. I don't like how everyone here seems to be out to make a buck. I don't like that I'm getting too old for this game and I can't tell that the maturity levels on parts of this website is far far below what I have.
The amount of desperate losers trying to scam you out of everything. I've had people scam me for under $5. C'mon people take a look at yourself and realise how stupid it is to do things like that. I assume they're all 12 year old kids though because what mature person in their right mind would waste time doing that?
To address the two main complaints: Server issues, and scamming.
Server issues: Mostly caused by repeated heavy ddos attacks (which are outside our control.) Some months the site runs flawlessly, other months we have problems. I am making an ongoing effort to protect the site, however I don't always have time to change the protection setup. For the next week or so, I can't do much more about it. (Although I have recently updated the scripts.)
Rate of scamming: please submit suggestions as to how you think we can better detect and remove scammers from the site. We already have an extensive IP filter system, scammer reports, the vouch system, and the middleman system. We also encourage users to send a PM before trading to verify that they are not trading with an impostor. Legitimate suggestions should be submitted to the suggestion forum here: http://sythe.org/forumdisplay.php?f=424
I hate that we cant donate less than $50 through WU. Do I look like a bank? I don't have $50 to give to sythe but sure I can manage to give $10 or something. (I can't use mail in payment)