Mesh_Magick opened this issue on Aug 15, 2003 ยท 99 posts
Phantast posted Fri, 15 August 2003 at 5:37 PM
Well, it's partly a matter of attitude. There are heroes like Koz who produce first-rate stuff and give it away because they care about the community. And there are prats who spend 30 minutes twiddling dials and then try to flog the result to some gullible punter to make a buck or two. I do get a laugh sometimes when browsing the marketplace and see some of the ludicrous things offered, sometimes at quite high prices. On the other hand, some of the products are of very high quality, and I respect that, whether it is an item I'm interested in or not. My suggestion would simply be to list the number of purchases of each item in the same way that the number of downloads in freestuff is logged. That way, if anyone tries to sell junk, they will have to contend with the humiliation of seeing their low sales figures displayed. I don't see any increase in the percentage of junk items lately, though - it's been pretty constant IMO.