Many of you have probably noticed that each user making a post has a section under their name that says Feedback Rating: with a number following it. This subsystem allows users to provide a visual feedback accounting of their experiences with this particular user. This is helpful in cases where this user is selling items in the classifieds section and gives a thumbnail sketch of what you may expect in your dealings with this person.
To actually view the comments in the feedback section, simply click on the number that follows the text "Feedback Rating:".
Of course, the BOI is the main place for detailed information on someone, but using the feedback system will likely be your first line of defense in recognizing the character of the person you are getting ready to spend your money with. Do you think some people may get irritaed at this little telltale pegged on their profile? Well, yes. But the very worst that could happen is that anyone with a large number of negative feedback votes will just not post their ads on this site. And I just don't see a downside to that result.
But using the Feedback Rating System is not all that obvious in how to do it. The way you get to that system is by viewing a message posted by a user and clicking on the PROFILE button at the bottom of their post. This opens up a screen that gives you the opportunity to provide an entry in this Feedback Rating System that will then be visible to all users in every message this user posts.
Bear in mind that this has some opportunity for abuse, so it will be monitored and reviewed, and anything that is obviously trolling, abusive, or inappropriate will be deleted. In many cases this will be unnecessary as the adage "consider the source" will often prove worth noting. As in messages posted on the BOI, an irritated user demanding that negative feedback be deleted will be ignored except in such cases where it has obviously been posted maliciously and without grounds.
So I suggest that using this system can be to everyone's advantage here. But it is up to you to use it and use it well.
Thanks.
To actually view the comments in the feedback section, simply click on the number that follows the text "Feedback Rating:".
Of course, the BOI is the main place for detailed information on someone, but using the feedback system will likely be your first line of defense in recognizing the character of the person you are getting ready to spend your money with. Do you think some people may get irritaed at this little telltale pegged on their profile? Well, yes. But the very worst that could happen is that anyone with a large number of negative feedback votes will just not post their ads on this site. And I just don't see a downside to that result.
But using the Feedback Rating System is not all that obvious in how to do it. The way you get to that system is by viewing a message posted by a user and clicking on the PROFILE button at the bottom of their post. This opens up a screen that gives you the opportunity to provide an entry in this Feedback Rating System that will then be visible to all users in every message this user posts.
Bear in mind that this has some opportunity for abuse, so it will be monitored and reviewed, and anything that is obviously trolling, abusive, or inappropriate will be deleted. In many cases this will be unnecessary as the adage "consider the source" will often prove worth noting. As in messages posted on the BOI, an irritated user demanding that negative feedback be deleted will be ignored except in such cases where it has obviously been posted maliciously and without grounds.
So I suggest that using this system can be to everyone's advantage here. But it is up to you to use it and use it well.
Thanks.