With all due respect to Mens, i must disagree with this suggestion. Albeit beneficial to many users, this would mainly be effective in usage for the users with larger amounts of forum gold. Considering the number of individuals who attempt to scam or steal based on the site's trading system, hiding one's FG amount could be used in more deceptive and potentially nefarious ways. It could also be used opposite its intended function in order to 'pay less' for a trade. By limiting your visible forum gold, you may convince another user that x amount is all you can afford, and since they have no moderator or admin privileges, they will be unable to determine if this is a lie. Altogether i believe this suggested alteration to site function would have mixed effect, to say; not entirely beneficial to all users. I would also call into question the amount of time/effort this would take in implementing new code in the forum software. Not worth it in the end in my humble opinion.

If anything, all that proves is that you take into account how much fg someone has before selling them something... this is what I'm trying to get rid of. I don't see any possible way of "scamming" at best sure you can show you have less fg, but I don't see how that's a scam.

As for time/effort this would take in implementing new code into software, I will be more than happy to provide the code myself, its very simple to do because its not changing your gold amount, just what is shown visually, it can be implemented as easily as:



it's only a visual change, the actual amount in your acc does not change nor is the user fg count any way shape or form modified

Honest traders shouldn't change their prices on people based on what fg they have... regardless of whether its low or high. Thanks for your opinion though.

Also one of the main points in this thread is to bring up the issue of privacy, I for one don't like my forum gold info publicly available just as I would not want my finances revealed in real life.





if you have more fg, then show it, there is no need to have mods verify anything

can you give me an example of what you would have to police?

This post was edited by Mens on Jun 11 2012 01:52pm

This is just opening a whole new avenue to scamming "Oh I have more fg, only showing part of it." the rule require you to only offer what you have by implementing this you would be forcing the mod team to take on more work to police something that isn't needed at all.

Voting no.
People ask for loan: Block or ignore
People overprice goods: don't buy them
People overprice services: go to someone else.

Find the honest traders, don't give loans or donations that you don't want to.
E: Also this:



This post was edited by Protagonist on Jun 11 2012 01:45pm

i have never, nor would i ever, take fg into account when making trade(s). the only case in which i may do so is if a person only has, say, 5fg and theyre looking for an item or service that would normally be 10. in that case, i may at times be willing to go ahead and help a person out. i merely think people would use a feature like this in order to facilitate "this-is-all-i-have" type of trades, whereas they actually have more than they display.

Possibly, though I don't seem much of "this-is-all-i-have" type of trades currently, even when a majority of users have a low amount of fg, also that situation applies with +- fg doesn't seem significant, versus couple thousand etc. Once again if you don't price your items based on what fg a person has, that shouldn't be an issue, if you can't afford the item / service then you can't have it, that's how it works right now.

no.

The cons is just too bad.

Voted no.