Will the *other* dev put in a real rating system?
Then I think people may throw some coin at it.
DG just let us know what it will take to get a rating system. Better than stars, real anonymous reviews
I understand anonymous can be an issue, so keep it simple.
Make it cost .001 sling to leave a review, and have the seller set the ability to charge a higher amount.
Have a text entry field for the review. Something you can blow up when you click on it.
Do you mean have lots of these text reviews per seller?
Should all the reviews display?
All of these text reviews will be in the blockchain?
Sounds like a path to bloat.
Maybe need some kind of automatic pruning/omission of reviews past a certain date.
If you do not have a clear review system which feels like the others out there it will never be used.
You said you were a user of the other sites out there who use btc, and we all know reviews = reputation from a successful easy transaction verified by the person receiving the products with the seller having some feedback potential. Mainly the person paying for the goods though.
It has to feel like that experience, or people aren't going to trust it.
It doesn't matter how much math is under the hood, what coin source is used, none of that... it matters if people feel they have an easy way to securely communicate and read others true experiences.
If it adds too much bloat, then obviously we need a different way, but it will not ever go without this.
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Good luck to us all
Well, I'm a solutions type of person.
If its the case for a more "
real, human experience write-ups" then maybe be innovative and have a full version wallet that would incorporate an additional "data" blockchain for when you want to read all reviews and such. Keeping transaction blockchain and review blockchain separate, I think would allow for the review blockchain to be more easily trimmed. The light version would be for more mobile "on the go" times (without the data/review blockchain) - when you already know the rep of the seller or whoever you're dealing with.
I'm not even sure if that's possible or feasible in a more technical sense (could the blockchains be linked and/or "review data" chain not used in light version?), but just seems to make sense to me. This is all just suggestion to have a "lighter", faster syncing/download version and leave people with options. I *don't* feel there should be versions like electrum where identity can be exposed through servers.
Edit: Instead of a whole separate blockchain, could it be just a decentralized/distributed file (verified by hashing, broken into parts if too large) that would contain all review data?