RFE: Consider anonymous reviews

ovejo (@ovejo) · 4 replies ·
This is mostly food for thought.

Publishing the name of the user who made a review can be useful. It can provide an anchor of trust in a transparent way to anyone who reads the review. It can also incentivize users to leave reviews as it adds to your seniority on the site.

Publishing anonymous reviews also have some advantages. As suggested in another thread the status of being a senior review can be used as a leverage in some discussion, a practice I find to be very unethical and repulsive.

Also, the legal situation in Sweden is troublesome. In many current drug related cases here in Sweden information gathered even on dark-net sites are commonly used as part of the evidence presented to the court. I think it's more a question of when and not if the same method will be used when prosecuting sex-buyers. If anonymous reviews were used it would effectively make that impossible.

Also, if notes visible only to other sellers could be provided anonymously as a part of the reverse review process it would likely be useful in many ways, it would certainly make unethical practices such as those recently indicated in another forum thread much easier to avoid.
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