I notice fraud and con cases still happening at a very high rate despite lots of work done to curb such thing.

I am not sure if someone suggested this before but I have not come across such suggestion in previous anti conmen dicussion. Perhaps it has already been discussed among mods. Anyway, my suggestion is that the trading section only allow certain member with higher priority to post and view.

Maybe only those with registration of 3 months and above AND with post count more than 100 can go to trading section.

This is so that those who register specifically to con will have to spend some time before they can start their con scheme.

Those who get blacklisted due to trading issues will also need to wait to gather up those requirement before they can do their thing again.

At least this way, conmen will need to work a little harder to be able to start posting in trading section.

This way, we also avoid getting people who only register account here to do trading. There are lots of members with less than 10 post count who does nothing but trade here. This board started out as a tech forum and I think it should continue in this path. Trading is just a side thread which should not become a major thing for this forum. As discussed before, this forum have limited resources to become a trading website. There are too much rules to implement to have a proper trading website such as ebay or lelong. If Se7en and co. want to continue developing a trading section, then better to make a proper trading sub website. Or else fraud cases and irresponsible trades will keep on piling up.

Anyway, just my suggestion. Everyone feel free to comment.

i know we can't continue building fences around the forum for the sake of some newbies traders but the features I suggested, I believe is already available with IPB. Therefore implementing it is not that much work. If those features are not so easy to implement then forget it.

I just want to make this place a safer place for trading where it used to be quite fun when conmen are not so a plenty. Now, even those kids comeout to con because they can get away with it easily.

Plus, what I suggested only could fend off casual conmen and FFKer and irresponsible traders who got blacklisted. It is by no means to make things worst for the forum.

Like I said, it's not only for con cases. FFKers and blacklisted cases are also happening very frequently which would benefit from this higher "turnaround" time for them to redo their "thing".

That would be some work to do. I am not going to spend time proving that my suggestion would work. There are not even enough prove to show that whom are the returning conmen. This implementation would means people like casual conmen or ffkers or blacklisted people would think twice before serious trying to do bad things. It is by no means a way to stop these people.

Just like how copy protections are being used in audio cds or pc games. You don't see these protection stopping piracy but you know that it is there to make life harder for people to pirate them. Publishers are willing to pay for those copy protections because it helps to fend of casual pirates.

I am not doing very extensive trading, so it doesn't really affect me but seeing people getting conned, ffked, scammed and all is really depressing. It really brings out the ugly side of Malaysian society. Worst is not so much as the victimizer but the victims who got scammed are the saddest. These people are just so ignorant when they see $$$ and no amount of teaching or tutorial are strong enough to beat the power of money. Of course it doesn't apply to everyone. Some really got scammed by opportunist under circumstances.