We've had a discussion on
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.12632059 about the best way to unite all lenders on this forum to fight scammers together.
In the discussion, several very good opinions were voiced by several members...
This is why i created this poll: what would be the best scam-fighting tactic according to you?
If you vote for a certain tactic, i think it's only fair if you try to follow the community's choice afterwards...
Also, and this goes without saying, please don't use alt's and shills to vote, and only cast your vote if you are a lender on this forum (or plan to become a lender in the very near future)
A small overview of the different choices
my own idear, of making a central ledger, unfinished demo (many features and layout will be added if this option is chosen): http://www.altcoinhosting.com/ledger/pro's:
- system with all loans in one place
- I can make an API so the tool can be incorporated into other projects (this works both ways => add new loans using a scraper or using the ledger as a database in your own applications
- Can be expanded in the future, for example: lenders could have a little dashboard displaying their open loans, with a payment calendar or something (just thinking out loud)
- I have both the hosting and the knowledge to write this for free
cons:
- It's a tool that's not hosted on bitcointalk.org
- it's centralised
- it's extra administration
- it doesn't scrape the forum, so it has to be manually maintained (Vod's comment)
UserVVIP's idear of making a browser extensionpros:
- you can add loans and lookup loans from your browser!
- it can be combined with a couple other idears
cons:
- i more or less think it HAS to be combined with another idear (the extension would need a database afterall)
MrPeoples' idear of a loan botThis is one where i need some help: i don't know reddit's loanbot... The only obvious con, is that it'll cost some community bucks. So we would need a fundraiser..
monbux' idear to enforce all bigger lenders to maintain their threadpros:
- it would take no extra effort, everybody already has a loanthread
- it's the easyest sollution, it keeps everything on bitcointalk.org
cons:
- you would still need to search before finding out if somebody already has an open loan or not
--Encrypted--'s idear to leave a neutral comment for everybody taking a loanpros:
- Simple and elegant solution, i think this will actually work
- it keeps everything on bitcointalk.org
cons:
- using the unmoderated trust feedback. In case a lender falls off the grid, the feedback sticks to the lendee's profile (comment by --Encrypted--)
Sir_lagsalot's idear for a lending subforumI think we already have one
. Opening a new subforum might work for a while, but i think in a matter of weeks/months it would be exactly the same situation it is today?
TheGr33k's idear of a loanthreadpros:
- Simple
- it keeps everything on bitcointalk.org
cons:
- you still have to browse the whole thread
- it takes an equal amount of time to enter the info in the thread as it takes to enter the info in a custom tool