Shinmaru
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Continuing from this thread:
My response:
There you have it, now let's hear all of yours, what do you think about the Marketplace.
I don't think there is anything wrong with the marketplace as it is now. I believe the problems are the sellers, not the board itself. And deleting marketplace wouldn't change that, a user who intends to sell a system for etc 10 EUR will not decide "ohh, I will just release it for free, because I don't have a marketplace board on otland".
I intend to release something big and awesome soon for free here at otland (Znote AAC), which I have spent months on developing(Aprox 3000 lines of PHP code). I don't wish a single penny for this, so I am able to distribute my initial product and framework.
And then I can sell on the marketplace some innovative extentions to my AAC, for those who wishes to have it, afford it and wants to support me. If my initial free product is lousy, the income will be bad, but if my product is good, and people who can afford it think I deserve it, that its worth a penny, then I can earn money, even as an open source developer. Who supports the open community.
My response:
Shinmaru said:I can agree with you, it's the sellers, but when you give a field of operation to these "sellers" you are legitimizing them, the marketplace has always been a place of trouble for otland and this time around is no different, surely, removing the Marketplace will be a blow on the honest seller as well.
But the history of bad reputation from the Marketplace outweighs the Honest Seller, so the only proper option will be to delete the Marketplace, what will be the consequences?
None except all the bad users that infest this site will leave to another site in the attempt to sell their stuff and we all know how well that will be since no other site has even 1/4 of the reputation that Otland has.
There can be an option, Otland can make a special Info Registry for those sellers, They are to provide their info(Full Name, Age, Address, Paypal address, and some other stuff) in order to sell things here in Otland, ofcourse this is the very least likely option, but I thought it was worth mentioning.
Znote, you can't place yourself with them, I for one have worked with you and I can tell you are trustworthy, You don't need the marketplace to sell extensions for you AAC, you can build a page that handles that for you. I believe, no one here would want to pull a sleazy on you.
There you have it, now let's hear all of yours, what do you think about the Marketplace.