qarielq Posted May 29, 2014 Share Posted May 29, 2014 Recently, I have been reading the dispute section and I see the amount of account recovery scams, blackmailing being done. I can't help but feel sad as to why people scam for "pixels". Maybe they need the money urgently, we never know, But I can't help but feel hatred towards these scammers and blackmailers. Maybe they think hiding behind the computer and being anonymous will keep them safe. I tried to warn the community before that Softarn (the guy who sells vps) was a fishy guy and opened a dispute against him. thread link:http://osbot.org/forum/topic/49838-dispute-on-softarn-scamming-me-for-vps/ After I paid him, he just logged out and claimed to be "sleeping" without telling me anything. He only replied me 12 hours after i opened a dispute against him. However, no action was taken against him after he refunded me. This might be poor customer service and not an attempt to scam, but I think it deserves a TWC or negative feedback at the very least, but it was removed. Today, i viewed this thread that he was banned for blackmailing and thought that if only the community had listened to me this would have been prevented. http://osbot.org/forum/topic/51511-softarn-the-power-activetoday-scamming/ Through all this incidents, I feel that OSbot should take a harsher stance against potential scammers and negative feedbacks should stay and not removed so easily. I am not ranting against the mods of OSbot, and I feel that they already have done a wonderful job in managing this site. I just want harsher market rules imposed and harsher punishments to those who think they can attempt to make a scam and get away with it. This is my sincere suggestion and I hope Mods reading this can take note of it. tldr: Harsher punishment for attempted scams/scammers and harsher market rules. No 2nd chance given. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caam Posted May 30, 2014 Share Posted May 30, 2014 Desperate people do desperate things Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Posted May 30, 2014 Share Posted May 30, 2014 Not quite sure what harsher punishments you had in mind? We IP ban users who commit these offenses. What more would you like to see in regards to precautionary measures? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nezz Posted May 30, 2014 Share Posted May 30, 2014 If you have any detailed suggestions, I'd love to hear them (I'm sure the rest of the staff would as well). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mystere Posted May 30, 2014 Share Posted May 30, 2014 Not quite sure what harsher punishments you had in mind? We IP ban users who commit these offenses. What more would you like to see in regards to precautionary measures? Pay some snipers to kill that people Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Master Chief Posted May 30, 2014 Share Posted May 30, 2014 I say if someone does something like that, you should be able to leave negative feedback. So when someone goes to trade with someone, they see people have had bad experiences in the past with that person. Or else everyone in the market just looks like they always do a great job and you don't know who to choose, so you end up picking whoever has the most feedback rather then highest p/n feedback ratio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qarielq Posted May 30, 2014 Author Share Posted May 30, 2014 Not quite sure what harsher punishments you had in mind? We IP ban users who commit these offenses. What more would you like to see in regards to precautionary measures? If you have any detailed suggestions, I'd love to hear them (I'm sure the rest of the staff would as well). Well after he refunded me, he opened a dispute topic to remove the negative feedback i gave him. It was removed from his profile, and I felt that it should have stayed there. Negative feedback/TWC should stay depending on the situtation, and in that situation I felt it should have stayed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
