Canceling an Open Trade (Feedback Wanted)

I've begun wrapping this up today. I plan on setting up the purge script that will periodically remove open trades where no feedback was given first, and then I'll take a look at open trades with partial feedback.

In the meantime, here are some stats for the curious. I ran a quick query on the number of open trades prior to May 1, 2014.

• 226 = no feedback
• 1,133 = 1 person has left feedback

This is out of 15,984 trades made during the range.

A lot of beer traders are about to get spanked for not leaving feedback.

 

Here's where I'm at ...

• Ability to Cancel.
  • Other trader agrees > Purged.
  • Other trader doesn't respond after 30 days > Purged.
• No one left feedback after 30 days > Purged.
• If you have an open trade AND left feedback > Good or Neutral. I'm on the fence, but there will be a system message in the feedback text to let others know that it's the result of someone not leaving feedback.
• If you have an open trade AND you didn't leave feedback > I was thinking Bad. Now I'm thinking Incomplete, a new stat to better gauge how reliable a trader is in regards to using the system, and one that we can eventually use to adjust the feedback %.

I'm going to grab another cup of coffee before I finalize it.

 

OK, but something needs to be assigned. If not Good or Neutral (or Bad, of course) ... what?

 

Traders can edit their feedback already, so it really doesn't matter.

 

This is becoming more complicated than it needs to be. We simply need to deal with 3 things here.

1. Ability to cancel an open trade within 30 days.
   • Purged; regardless if both parties agree to cancel or the 30 days is up; creating a cancel option is kind of pointless.
2. No one left feedback after 30 days.
   • Purged.
3. One person left feedback after 30 days. Herein lies the problem.
   • The irresponsible trader received feedback already, but what should we do with this feedback? The irresponsible trader needs to get penalized, regardless of the feedback that they received.
   • And what should we do with the responsible trader who left the feedback, but didn't get any in return? We can't assume that the responsible trader who left feedback should receive a default Good, Okay, or Bad.

#1 and #2 are solved; purged after 30 days.

So I need some solid, easily automated ideas for #3 that will not require any user follow up, otherwise we'll just purge those too.

 

I think I just came up with a solution ... look for a follow-up post soon.

 

@Jason, @Mike, and I discussed this morning. There's no fair way, and too many "what ifs" to consider, so we've opted to leave open trades with partial feedback open indefinitely, and purge open trades with no feedback after 90 days.

http://www.beeradvocate.com/community/threads/beer-trading-feedback-system-explained.185895/

We'll continue to revisit this as needed.