Paid Requests Simply not working

[Dean C]

Originally Posted by lasto

Let them try because i aint hiring from here again - twice bitten twice shy.
So in theory your stance is if you cant be bothered to check people out then you deserve to be scammed ?



you see i see it differently - if vb.org implemented a simple system that would allow members to leave feedback,and members checked that when looking for a new coder then half of these problems would be solved,but they wont implement it,yet they provide the actual platform for these scammers to operate.

Yes, if you don't do your homework, you should expect to have trouble.

And we've had the whole feedback system discussion many times. The outcome is that it's very very easy to leave fake feedback. I know many many people on this site, and I could politely ask them to leave me positive feedback in my profile. I could also go around quietly, and discretely paying people to do it. Also feedback isn't a reference. If you properly check up on a reference you can ask all kinds of questions, you can't do that when just reading feedback.