Quote from: Dread Pirate Roberts on March 07, 2012, 08:45 amQuote from: Paperchasing on March 07, 2012, 07:05 amRandomizing the feedback is a terrible idea. Heres why: The most recent feedback reflects the current state of a vendors affairs in terms of batch quality and other current factors such as packaging and timeliness in delivery. Showing me some random feedback from a listing is completely worthless in terms of knowing what a vendor is sending out right then and what their current state of conducting business is. Stuff changes as each new batch is acquired and the feedback should reflect the current situation, not something that happened 3 months ago. At least if your gonna randomize it put the time stamp so people know if its relevant information or completely worthless information about a batch that is long gone. This is a good point. How can we display feedback without revealing every transaction that happens for each vendor? And more generally, where do these measures fall short still. If you were trying to find out how big a vendor is, or how big the site is, how would you do it?Quote from: Paperchasing on March 07, 2012, 07:05 amHiding transaction numbers is practically ineffective as well for hiding the scope of an operation because your telling people straight out that so and so is in the top whatever percent... it does hide the scope of Silk Roads operation to some degree, however estimated growth based on previous known values is easy to determine at this point...  Ive been doing it since before I became a vendor.. its basic market research you know...Not sure I agree here. If you only know the percent, then you don't know the total number of vendors. I know we just made the switch, so you can make a good guess now, but if the vendor base grows or shrinks by a factor of 2 or 3 in the next 6 months, you won't be able to tell.Quote from: Paperchasing on March 07, 2012, 07:05 amAlso, my account page only goes back for a few pages... what is that about? Hard to do accounting if your ledger is missing... and by the way, hiding the ledger from your business partners is not cool... It has always been this way.DPR, just put hard-number caps on the amount of feedback displayed. Limit the general feedback you can see on a vendor's page to 50 or so, and cap the feedback one can see on a particular item to 10, but leave the most recent feedback up and drop off anything older than 30 or 60 days, or if the hard-number cap is hit, whichever comes first. It's very important that buyers get the most recent snapshot possible because if a vendor is getting sloppy, lazy, or he is attempting to scam people after establishing a rep on small orders, it's a lot easier to nip a scammer in the bud. It paints the most current, accurate picture possible of a vendor's practices. This way a vendor's operation is well hidden because there are only 50 or 100 visible feedbacks on the site, so you have a very hard time gauging the size of his business, but buyers don't lose the safety that recent feedback provides.I do like the percentile change and I think that one should stick.