A 5 star marketplace rating

I suggest we do a 5-star marketplace BST rating like amazon where buyers (and maybe only them) can rank BST.

Yes, you can spam it, Yes you can ask people to give you good ratings but I think it is another failsafe for better transparency. I know you can rank here but I think it should be displayed on the title of the BST. If you see 1000's of positive ratings then it has a meaning.

mr.y said:

I suggest we do a 5-star marketplace BST rating like amazon where buyers (and maybe only them) can rank BST.

Yes, you can spam it, Yes you can ask people to give you good ratings but I think it is another failsafe for better transparency. I know you can rank here but I think it should be displayed on the title of the BST. If you see 1000's of positive ratings then it has a meaning.

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It would be a nightmare to manage, as all sellers would have to prove reviews left were from verified purchases.

We never ask people to give good ratings, in fact most of our clients don't leave feedback but instead just keep ordering month after month.

Use common sense when reading reviews is my advice, so if the person who has only posted 30 times and 30 are reviewing a single service.....
Or you get the hard to belive reviews where someone buys on Monday, spends $9.99 and 48 hours later is ranking number 1 for ; ' Cheap viagra '.

Check screenshots too, if the rankings are from 2015....

What you see is correct but it is from the experience of someone who knows how it is done. I spent a couple of hundred dollars last week on threads with seemingly good reviews and had no idea about checking the timing of reviews or checking the background of reviewers.

I think that a lot of people that just started buying here are in my state. I think we can make this knowledge more accessible to them.

The shining sale thread and a lot of likes look very good and it will be much better for the reliability of this forum and marketplace if there was another way to check the authenticity of claims.

We used to have it, and it was removed. It's pretty much useless unless you can restrict it to only buyers. Since transactions are not processed through BHW, that's not really possible.