Quote from: novocaine on February 20, 2012, 09:59 amQuote from: MagicMan on February 19, 2012, 01:29 amQuote from: novocaine on February 19, 2012, 12:45 amLogging on as a buyer and given a new random number for every transaction/session would be good.If the buyer wants to id themselves to the vendor they have done previous business with, that is up to them.I dont want to see a the name of the buyer. I want to see a random number with previous feedback history left by random number including the vendor they purchased off.Sure if that random number buys from me several times I am going to assume it is the same entity going on the feedback they left previously. But there is still a separation.Then we will start to see patterns very quickly of scamming buyers and drug nazi pricks.Also you will see very quickly a scamming vendorThis is nothing short of absolutely brilliant, can anyone point out any flaws?bumping this because I would like this idea picked to pieces and maybe built on because I feel something need to be done because this is going to be the next big problem.More buyer transparency will obviously mean less privacy but not enough to stop a legit buyer from using SRWell, I'd like to see the random number generated upon every transaction rather than per session. That is more optimal.Obviously Silk Road needs to ID individual buyers, so they will have to have a big list of all your random number aliases.But yeah, internalizing the source of the feedback means LEO has to crack the Silk Road's server before they can work out how much feedback any particular buyer has left.What's more of a concern to me, is that the more feedback left for sellers, the more focus LEO will bring to bear on them. I think that the full number of feedbacks should be used in the calculation of their rating/ranking, but that only the last 100 feedback or so be used in verifying they are legit. That way you can lose all the other feedback/evidence while maintaining the results. Problem is, scammers might take advantage of such a plan by toodling along for a few months to make it appear they've been here forever and then suddenly sell 100 items so it looks like they are super legit.