Top Traders (measured by feedback)

[martenx]

No problem

[kralmir]

btw socks guy, the 2 reviews i wrote were positive ones, not sure if you counted them lol.

[bogbrush]

i did count them, because i knew what you meant, and knew you were happy with the trades, but thanks for saying so here, so i don't feel like i am cheating on the list

[bogbrush]

added 2 latest feedback for winterfell and adriano (altho a little unclear, i count these as positive in this case)

[bogbrush]

MVPeh's new trade thread added

[Ranma]

mmm.... how about another rules that only people that have 25+ posts may count as positive feedback ?

[bogbrush]

mmm.... how about another rules that only people that have 25+ posts may count as positive feedback ?

I hear what you are saying, but there are 2 reasons:
1) If i applied that rule, swarls would not appear on this list, even though he has 11 positive posts out of 20 total posts, where as FLAPMART has 9 positive out of 42 posts, why should Swarls be excluded?
2) I do not want to exclude a brand new trader, that is doing really well in the feedback stakes, if you have traded 3 times and had 3 positive feedbacks, in your first week, then you deserve to be known about (and added)

the rules are un-written(until now), but simple,
active trader (post has had feedback/post with the last 30 days).
the trader is selling multiple crafted items (that might appeal to many people, new and old) on an on-going basis, in some sort of organised shop type way
(those trading single items, or a few items of limited range are not included (eg want to trade cavebulbs for milk, or BMJclark who sells 3 items... gold sellers will be found, no matter what i put here ))(badich and googoo where included because they have so many posts (even though they have no feedback of any sort)

In the end, the information is out there for anyone to see themselves, the reader must make the decision, if they want to go to someone with one positive feedback, because they have the item the buyer wants, who am i to deny them the information?

[bogbrush]

oops, sorry Ramna, Tina explained that you might mean do not count feedback that may be an alt-post.. that is hard for me to judge, but some traders have been adjusted because of suspected alt-posting (less than 10 posts on forums, all posts on the one trader's thread, no other traders interacted with, etc)

[ramones]

Good work I guess, but I'm not sure how much the positive comments matter. I believe they matter only for new traders to give them good start and get few customers, since I believe all other traders that are here from start of the world (including me) have regular customers that probably don't even look other threads but just trust the trader that its best for them. I know I sell stuff to some people for higher price than Tina has set, but then again give them discount at some other goodies so overall general prices are more less the same with variation of qualities from trader to trader.

Usually people ask me if I want them to write forum note and I just give them the answer that its simply their choice if they want to or not.

And as for alts and similar situations; some threads and sellers sell many stuff to their allies, friends, co-villagers and they give them heads up aswell

[bogbrush]

true ramones, positive feedback is only an indicator, and can't be the definitive judge of trader reliability. i only really started to look through the numbers to see how i was going as a new trader, and noticed than number of posts really has nothing to do with how many trades were made.
and so came up with this way of showing the data i found, i keep updating, because i hope brand new players, who are nervous about going to strangers in case of death, might find it useful. (i was terrified on my first trade)