[Odysseus]

Hi eoc_Jason!

I'd love to install this hack because we recently had some problems with "black sheeps" in out marketplace forum.

But I actually think, that this hack cannot work without some kind of verification system that determines, whether two users are allowed to vote for each other, or not.


My suggestion to easily achieve this is:
Two users have agreed to do some trading in a thread. Now, they can open a "rating ticket". Only if both users accept this voting ticket, they know that the other person is seriously interested in this trade! (So, if one doesn't answer yout ticket request, you don't send the item, or you don't pay until he accepted the ticket).
A ticket can be opened by every user ... but only if a ticket has been accepted by two users, these two users can actually vote for each other.
If there's no ticket, no (fun-)voting can be done.

Technically, we woult require another mysql-table with 4 fields: 'user1', 'user2', 'confirmed', 'finished'. When opening a ticket, user 1 writes his username and the name of the other user into a form, which eventually creates a new line in the mysql-table, containing the id's of both users.
Now, user 2 has to accept this ticket by pressing some button and thus setting 'confirmed' to yes.
If users want to rate each other, a query needs to be performed in order to check if there is a valid (i.e. 'confirmed') ticket available.
After the voting is done, 'finished' is set to 'yes' and the ticket is invalid now.



Something like that.
How do you think about this? :bunny: