To facilitate the transparency of crimes and encourage accountability for jspers, I recommend a search bar for the S/A forum.

If I'm making a large sale, it'd be nice to be able to search his or her name in the S/A forum and see if anything pops up WITHOUT having to scroll through dozens of pages.

With the search bar, scammers won't easily repeatedly scam by just waiting for their names to go past a few pages and lose heat--players will be able to more actively protect themselves.

This also improves the work for Mods--if a search for a guy accused of scamming brings up ten other claims in the past period, then it could help a lot in piecing together whether or not the accused is guilty.

Furthermore, this minimizes repeat scams and results in less work for Mods too.

Overall, I think it's a simple to implement function that's a win-win for everybody (except for scammers).

/Edit

I know JSP doesn't allow search past page 218 since the rest get archived. That's completely fine.

However, I hate having to search pages until 25 to find out the guy I'm about to sell to was just being a little sneakier with his scams :\

I understand that the S/A page goes far back, like 218 pages, before archiving (or so some guy explained). I'm fine with search not going back that far, it'd be information overload.

However, wouldn't a search that digs through only the first 20 or 30 pages be reasonable? Maybe even fewer pages?



alright, i appreciate the link. thanks.

although my question is threads die without evidence anyways, and people always investigate threads to see if if the argument / accusation is substantial--they don't just look at a title and go "OMG the guy's a scoomer"

if there was a more rigid process dictating the need for evidence (which would cut S/A spam on the mediators' end anyways), wouldn't that nullify the "false accusation" threat? false accusations without support get shut down, and ones with evidence live on and serve as a good warning?

This post was edited by Icyfear on Feb 18 2013 05:12pm

no.
been suggest thousands of times before
wont happen ever.

My question is why then? What makes it a bad implementation with regards to the user experience of jspers?

I'm not surprised it's been suggested thousands of times before. I'm curious as to the downsides as to why it "wont happen ever"? Is there a reason why it'd be bad, Meridyth? Looking forward to clarification, thanks!

I understand that the S/A page goes far back, like 218 pages, before archiving (or so some guy explained).

However, wouldn't a search that digs through only the first 20 or 30 pages be reasonable? Maybe even fewer pages?

This post was edited by Icyfear on Feb 18 2013 05:06pm

alright, i appreciate the link. thanks.

although my question is threads die without evidence anyways, and people always investigate threads to see if if the argument / accusation is substantial

if there was a more rigid process dictating the need for evidence, wouldn't that nullify the "false accusation" threat? false accusations without support get shut down, and ones with evidence live on and serve as a good warning?