Some Suggestions

1) When someone leaves you feedback it emails you letting you know someone has left you feedback

2) When you leave someone feedback it displays to the other person a message reminding them to also leave feedback for the person who gave them feedback. Like Ebay does when you buy something.

3) Have the Trader Rating (4) in Postbit color coded for postive and Negative Feedback. If they have Postive Numbers it will be green and red for negative.

1. I thought about that, and will probably add an option choice for PM/email, however most people notice when their rating changes pretty quick.

2. It *could* be done, but with no way to tie a transaction together, it's tough to know if the person has already rated them for that specific transaction or not. Read a few posts back about the verified transaction idea.

3. This would be done with conditionals in the postbit & memberinfo templates. it would be like <if condition="$... >= 0">one color<else />another color</if>

you sure you aren't viewing a non-standard styleid (since admins can and regular users can't)? Cuz if I can see it as a guest, then that's about the only reason I can think that you wouldn't see it...

Well, the good thing about vB3 is you can create a forum section, but place it a manual link for it, so the whole classified/auction system could be self-contained and wouldn't require hacking a bunch of vB3 files. (I'm a minimalist as-is because I like to do quick upgrades).

Your idea kind of seems like the discussion that I first mentioned about just the extra link in a thread. However I think a full categorized classifieds/auction section would be the way to go for most forums that have moderate commerce going on. Also, it would draw in more people since it would bring a site to a whole new level. I guess the classifieds could also be considerd maybe a vendor section, and allow "stores" for individuals to group all their items they are selling and whatnot.

Conceptually I imagined having montly "credits" for each user, so they could post X amount of items free of charge, however people who conduct a lot of business would then need to purchase additional "credits". (Completely optional, but I think it's a good idea.)

I really can't give an ETA for anything right now, I'm currently unemployed, which I'm looking for a job (which everyone knows how time consuming that is), I also run my forum and a couple websites (also extremely time consuming), but I try to code in my spare time, I like to do general PHP/MySQL stuff, things for vB, and also my Stats Page for Folding@Home.

OK Im not sure where to begin but Im a little confused with this hack. We have vb 3.0.1 installed and we installed the hack now all we are seeing is below every post there is Trader Rating (0). We have fond no where to actually enter the rating you can click on the 0 but it just goes to a blank page.

eoc_Jason, thanks for the excellent hack. I can't believe how easy it was to install!

Just touching on the idea of one sale item per post being manditory in a future version, that might not be a good idea for some forums, especially those that trade CDs or DVDs. Usually people put up a list of 20 DVDs or so they are looking to swap, and if they had to create a single post per DVD, it could get ugly.

I love this hack, and wanted to express my thanks again! Cheers!

Check the posts above with the discussion about which styleid the templates are on vs. the ones you are using. If the templates on not on the styleid you are using (or a parent style) then a blank page is displayed....

Thanks Jason got it going great hack.

Is there anyway I can get the user rating to dissapear from above the usernames in my forums, and have it in beside the posts, and the reputation

Allowing it still to be clickable.

http://forums.bootleg.org.uk

Also I am looking for a way to admin it better, am I able to edit every single comment that is made by people to other people? Cause mine will be done solely on a trust thing, as alot of stuff will be done via pm, as I have alot of traders, and they prefer not to disclose their address via forums.

But I imagine some people will start to sign up and give themselves good ratings, or give others bad ratings for a laugh.

Also looking for some way so that the user has to have a certain amount of rep points before they can actually give someone a rating, so its the trusted people that use the forums that are able to do this.

And great hack, just what I needed for my bootleg trading forums.

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www.bootleg.org.uk to add to the list.

And hope my post helps some for the admin menu bit. Really needing some security done on it :D

***edit*** Managed to get the User Rating in the Wee bit under me post count etc :D

Edit: Nevermind, I saw your edit.

Also, I don't see how letting them allow to discuss transaction addresses etc in PM would be a bad thing.

You can have them discuss all their trades, prices, negotiations, etc in their threads, but just have them send each other addresses etc via PM.

As for someone signing up and giving themself a rating, if you use the conditionals he provided for only being threads that are in x forums, then use a promotion allowing people after x amt of days registered or x amt of psots to be able to see the buy/sell/trade areas that stops people from signing up to boost their feedback.

Without using that option, the best you can do to prevent people to do that, is just make examples out of people and ban everyone who does it.

I have moderators that will be checking ratings whenever they feel like looking, and if they see a fake thread or fake feedback, that user will be banned permanently on the spot.