[brothe2000]

One thing that I always find with the "rating" sort of systems is that negatives can always sink a site or reputation so instead of allowing negative postings, perhaps allowing people to post the deliveries and then rate them up if they were exceptionally great.

This avoids the negative impact but allows the view to total deliveries and those that were "positive".

In addition, each user has their own opinion so you may need to add variance for the rating.

[safelysell]

Hi, i agree with the "positive" approach to rating. I'll think i'll adjust the stats accordingly.

How would you deal with variance of opinions? Mediating between buyer and seller opinions is a problem im not sure how to solve.

[brothe2000]

I think that each person is their own variance. So somebody might rate on a 1 - 10 scale at an average of 7 while others rate at an average of 9 so you have to apply context.

I wouldn't mediate between the two of them, I would simply display the facts and let those viewing the data make their own conclusions the same way that a 1 star rating on Amazon is viewed as less credible than a 2 or 3 star rating because it "seems" more realistic. People who say strong words like Hate and rate 1 star are probably rating a lot of things low.

Make sense?