Why no FEEDBACK FORUM?

Forgive me if this has been covered before, but why does CPF not have a Feedback Forum?

Seems to me, with the amount of transaction that occur in the Buy/Sell/Trade Forum, buyers and sellers would both benefit.

Just curious.

What, no feedback on the Feedback thread?

I would give some myself, but I've never bought or sold anything through CPF.

Sounds like a good idea to me.

Look in suggestions for your answer.

I think the liability disclaimer is the key - there isn't really anything here on CPF, but they have a very detailed one on Blade Forums (maybe they'd let us borrow it if we asked nicely...)

Graham

Well, I just noticed an obvious (negative) feedback thread in the General Forum, and don't see the Moderators deleting it.

Seems to me by permitting this thread to exist, without centralizing it in its own (Disclaimered) Forum is a greater liability.

More food for thought...

Moving to Suggestion forum

Darell-

Don't see it in the Suggestions Forum?

Okay, I finally got around to looking in Suggestions Forum, and found the following thread link.

Seems DavidW and the Moderators have denied a FEEDBACK FORUM to CPF over concerns about potential liability of esp. accusations of fraud (esp. against vendors).

I think this is a mistake, and have a couple of comments:

1) I think the absence of a feedback forum actually increases CPF's liability if/when people are ripped off (thankfully, occurrences of this type are seemingly few and far between). The feedback forum vacuum is actually beneficial to wrongdoers.

2) Make a Liability Disclaimer on the Feedback Forum, and ban the use of the word "fraud", and any accusations thereof. It's that simple. Moderators can easily enforce this. People can still relay negative experiences without accusation of fraud.

3) Both Bladeforums.com, Knifeforums.com and UsualSuspect.net have all very successfully implemented feedback forums. The numbers of transactions on those forums (esp. BF and KF) dwarfs the number of transactions on CPF, and while negative feedbacks thread definitely proliferate (thankfully a very, very small %) I've not heard of any liability issues for the forum owners.

Anyway, just my $0.02...

It looks like this thread was gagged.

Not gagged at all. In fact, this thread just inspired the very forum you're after. For some unexplained reason, the move and lock took WAY long to take effect. In theory you guys posted here a day after I locked the thing. Odd. Anyway it eventually did more here: http://www.candlepowerforums.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=27;t=000053

And now, of course there is a new forum here: http://www.candlepowerforums.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=forum;f=17

OK, re-locking...