Safety questionnaire befor buying a Laser from LPF

joshshermannn1 said:

i do think the seller should make sure, the first thing i bought when i came to this forum was a 1.2 laser and i think i had <50 posts

Click to expand...

Number of post's does absolutly not matter.

I'f visited LPF long time befor i signed in at 2009. Some people still call me a noob because of my low number of post's. Some other members are making over 1000 post's in a couple month an act as vets :bowdown: ( no problem with that at all if someone is very active )

Here's a bit of rambling for your consideration;

First and foremost, the only reason people would actually take any precaution in buying/selling is if they had to, and many don't realize that they in fact HAVE TO (IMO buyers and sellers are guilty, but this is also normal).

By this I mean that it is often only enforcement that results in desired behavior. (Debatable I know.)

Ok, so what I'm proposing is an additional requirement for getting information from the b/s/t section.

Now I know it is very easy to lock away a forum section with a basic password...

The problem is there are quite a few people who sell through the forum, some supplement their income with it, and as a result it's not really an option to lock away the forum through very strict means.

So step one, require registration to enter the B/S/T section at all.

If people go to the trouble of registering in the first place, that means they have some interest in lasers... adding on a little more of a requirement, like a very simple quiz to get a password to use the BST section wouldn't deter many people after that. (And is there really a need for the ones it would deter?)

The secondary problem is that currently there is nothing to stop a person who doesn't want to take this test from simply PMing or emailing a seller, without even registering.

So IMHO the only effective way to make this kind of an approach work, would be to anonymize the contact info in the B/S/T section only(and associated links). Perhaps only leaving behind the Rep of the seller in text format only.

This way the lure of the B/S/T board is there, and is publicly accessible, but people have to take two small, extra steps to access it.

So just to sum up;

Step 1. To access B/S/T board at all - require registration.
Step 2. To see contact information of sellers and/ or to post in b/s/t section require a short quiz/waiver.

Perhaps allow public access to b/s/t section, but only in the anonymized format?

Any thoughts? Feel free to point out glaring problems (I know there are a few)



(Of course this is all entirely hypothetical, in the end it's all up to c0ld and the supermods:bowdown

Well, maybe just one more feature. The increase IQ button. They push the button after registering and it increases their IQ by 50 points. J/K

You already have to register before you can PM people on the forum. heh. And most sellers don't have their email addresses out in the open. So that suggestion is moot.