Can you elaborate on how using a med for 1fg is a waste of time and using a med for 1 million fg is not?

yes I can elaborate

You shouldn't need this elaborated for you. It's quite obvious why 1 fg isn't worth bothing a mediator for and why 1 million fg is.

Both 1 fg and 1 million fg takes the exact same amount of time and energy, both on the side of the mediator and the side of the traders. If the mediator got paid a percentage or some sort of commission reward, I'd agree with you. But there is literally 0 difference in the work that goes into it.

So please. Elaborate on how one is worth their time and one isn't

It's more time and more energy because if mediators are helping with very small trades then they have a lot more trades to help with.

Also, it's about potential loss and risk. How much fg an account has vs how much the trade is for is relevant I think. example: I have over 7k fg, so if I steal a 1 fg item from you I'm risking my 7k fg. It's unlikely someone with 7k fg will steal your 1 fg item or even your 100 or 1000 fg item. But 7k is very low compared to 1 million. It would be foolish to drop a 1 million fg item on the ground and trust I'm not going to steal it. The risk in that scenario is much higher than in the scenario where I have thousands of times more fg than the trade is worth.

So an individual with less fg and a less valuable account doesn't deserve the protection and safety of the jsp-prescribed method of trading. Poor people are on their own?


"Always request a Mediator for your trades. This is the only way to do a 100% safe trade." - this is a direct quote from the jsp staff itself. At the very least, there should be an included caveat of "unless the trade isn't valuable enough in our eyes"

I never said that. I just tried to elaborate on your question of "why is a 1 fg trade different from a 1 million fg trade".

Of course there's a difference in value and number (and for the record, 1 million was just a dramatic number), but it shouldn't matter. A trade is a trade. And again, the amount of work from the mediator side doesn't change, so not sure what the question is here

This. It's also a bigger waste of mediator's time and resources looking over less than a dollar, especially when it's a volunteered non paying position.

The amount of work going in DOES change though, since it will flood hundreds of more trades per day.

If you'd like the have the mediation wait time skyrocket then this would be a good idea. But as it stands, it's not.