I'd point out that your complaint against the upfront fee clashes with the complaint against scams. The fee was implemented to try and dissuade fly by night assholes doing that.
Now what they ought to implement is a monetary floor for giving reviews.
Well that's the irony of it, even with the fee, the scammers aren't affected by this at all because they can make their money back bumping themselves up on the lists with bot reviews among other tricks and idiots will buy it because they look at the ratings and think nothing of it.
Hence my suggestion, to have a spending floor for reviews. You can't even friend people without spending five or six bucks so why are you allowed to review anything?
I personally think ratings systems should be done away with entirely, it's been a proven failure. Normal reviews with writing? Yes, that way low effort retards get quickly exposed among other things, but that's a whole other debate to have.
I'd point out that your complaint against the upfront fee clashes with the complaint against scams. The fee was implemented to try and dissuade fly by night assholes doing that.
Now what they ought to implement is a monetary floor for giving reviews.
Well that's the irony of it, even with the fee, the scammers aren't affected by this at all because they can make their money back bumping themselves up on the lists with bot reviews among other tricks and idiots will buy it because they look at the ratings and think nothing of it.
Hence my suggestion, to have a spending floor for reviews. You can't even friend people without spending five or six bucks so why are you allowed to review anything?
I personally think ratings systems should be done away with entirely, it's been a proven failure. Normal reviews with writing? Yes, that way low effort retards get quickly exposed among other things, but that's a whole other debate to have.
While I'm certainly not happy with the existing paradigm, I'd say counting on literacy from the average person is doomed to failure.