Suggestion: Thief database?

[TheHangedMan]

Has anyone thought of doing a page with a complete, searchable list of all known theives? Considering I have the card of the person who ripped me off today, I have his number. Correct me if I'm mistaken, but isn't that number unique? If everyone gets the card & number of those they trade with, someone could compile a searchable list of the numbers of all theives, and we could effectively blacklist them. I know there are many posts on many forums about one thief or another, but keeping a list with numbers would give people one place to look before they trade. If their name/number came up, a person would know not to trust them.

Of course, this isn't without it's own problems (false thief submissions, etc.), but it might be something to consider.

[MB]

That would be very easy to do in web scripting too... If you could talk to sysop to put it on this page it would be all the better... One questions though, how do you keep innocents from being blacklisted also... Like the ebay rating thing, If you give someone a bad rating and they do the same to you even though you tried everything to make it work... I like the idea though...
MBlaster
lvl 2x... Humar

[Spy]

Not going to work... to many theives, to little time, and how are you going to remember them all, and which ones to stay away from? The best thing to do is play with friends, or when playing with strangers dont play with your good items, so that if you are ripped off you don't lose them.

[TheHangedMan]

Ok, I thought about this, started to write, ended up thinking about it more and just deleted everything I had written. Basically this is what I've come up with so far:

People would have to be registered with a validated email to submit.

Submitters could either have a sort of honesty rating, somewhat akin to ebay's feedback (which you mentioned). Other registered users could vouch for users they know, and give them a star or something, giving that person a bit more credibility when they submit someone.

Or maybe along the same lines...
When a new thief is submitted, the submission (and submitter) must be vouched for and also submitted by X number of additional users. Sort of like a legal document that requires witnesses. Those additional users would have to be users whose email was from a different domain than the submitter (to prevent people from vouching for themselves).

I don't think fake submissions would be very much of a problem, because in general, a list of thieves would probably not be a place where dishonest people would gather.

Of course, I've been up all night playing PSO, so this is the best I could come up with so far in my tired state.

[TheHangedMan]

Spy: That's why the list. So that you don't need to remember, but can look them up. The idea was geared more towards traders than people you end up in a game with. Before you traded with a person, you could get their card and #, then look them up.

[Tillis]

I was just thinking that ! I want a list of theives too. I would want it printable too, so I can hunt them down. BWAHAHAHAHA ! DREDG ! YOU'LL BE SORRY YOU STOLE MY PHOTON CLAW !!! BWAHAHAHAHAHA ! NOW ALL YOU LOUSY THEIVES WILL SUFFER ! BWAHAHAHAHA ! umm... anyway... it would be good to also list WHAT they stole and who their victim(s) were. Yes,k a nice simple list of theives would be GRAND ! SOMEBODY MAKE THE DANG LIST NOW !

[Tillis]

I was just thinking that ! I want a list of theives too. I would want it printable too, so I can hunt them down. BWAHAHAHAHA ! DREDG ! YOU'LL BE SORRY YOU STOLE MY PHOTON CLAW !!! BWAHAHAHAHAHA ! NOW ALL YOU LOUSY THEIVES WILL SUFFER ! BWAHAHAHAHA ! umm... anyway... it would be good to also list WHAT they stole and who their victim(s) were. Yes,k a nice simple list of theives would be GRAND ! SOMEBODY MAKE THE DANG LIST NOW !

[Tillis]

I was just thinking that ! I want a list of theives too. I would want it printable too, so I can hunt them down. BWAHAHAHAHA ! DREDG ! YOU'LL BE SORRY YOU STOLE MY PHOTON CLAW !!! BWAHAHAHAHAHA ! NOW ALL YOU LOUSY THEIVES WILL SUFFER ! BWAHAHAHAHA ! umm... anyway... it would be good to also list WHAT they stole and who their victim(s) were. Yes,k a nice simple list of theives would be GRAND ! SOMEBODY MAKE THE DANG LIST NOW !

[Tillis]

I was just thinking that ! I want a list of theives too. I would want it printable too, so I can hunt them down. BWAHAHAHAHA ! DREDG ! YOU'LL BE SORRY YOU STOLE MY PHOTON CLAW !!! BWAHAHAHAHAHA ! NOW ALL YOU LOUSY THEIVES WILL SUFFER ! BWAHAHAHAHA ! umm... anyway... it would be good to also list WHAT they stole and who their victim(s) were. Yes,k a nice simple list of theives would be GRAND ! SOMEBODY MAKE THE DANG LIST NOW !

[Tillis]

I was just thinking that ! I want a list of theives too. I would want it printable too, so I can hunt them down. BWAHAHAHAHA ! DREDG ! YOU'LL BE SORRY YOU STOLE MY PHOTON CLAW !!! BWAHAHAHAHAHA ! NOW ALL YOU LOUSY THEIVES WILL SUFFER ! BWAHAHAHAHA ! umm... anyway... it would be good to also list WHAT they stole and who their victim(s) were. Yes,k a nice simple list of theives would be GRAND ! SOMEBODY MAKE THE DANG LIST NOW !