Quote from: Hassan I Sabbah on April 09, 2012, 05:41 pmQuote from: BIG Db3 on April 09, 2012, 06:24 amApparently the "management" at SR doesn't give a shit tho. I think that the administrators of Silk Road need to be more proactive in catching scams before they happen and also need to take more responsibility re: refunding losses of buyers "who played by the rules".Surely there must be some kind of algorithmic formula that could do this: a 'social engineering program' to determine the likelihood of a new seller scamming? Perhaps they need to do better screening of new buyers as well: they just seem a little too quick to shrug their shoulders say "Not our problem." But the fact is that they generate risk free revenue from those sellers account fees: surely they can be just a tad more... er.. empathetic? Here's a proposal: perhaps they can treat buyers who have been scammed to some relaxing and free MDMA empathetic therapy sessions to help overcome what can only be called Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome? I'd also be content with monitored free shots of Afghan Heroin or a day of swimming with the freaking dolphin's at Sea World whilst under the influence of a 'heroic dose' of magic mushrooms? ;)SR provides the services of a market - it brings buyers and sellers together. On top of that, it offers escrow protection and dispute resolution. If a buyer chooses to forego the offered services and assume the risk of direct-business, that's the buyer's responsibility (SR states this in the buyer's guide). Why should SR subsidize bad choices? All I think that's going to do in the end is actually encourage more people to do stupid things, because they are "covered". It's the same thing as public health care - why the hell should I give a shit about my body if all of my neighbors are going to pay for my asshole choices?All this would do is massively increase SR commission fees and scamming would become epidemic.