This is just my own personal hang up, but any chance that Trader Feedback could be moved to it’s own category instead of being nested in B/S/T?
I understand they’re closely related and it’s (mostly) valuable info but I feel like it’s a lot of clutter. Example, currently there are at least 3 topics of feedback for sinister_yoyo. Sure, they’ll prolly get merged at some point, but it adds a lot of noise to the channel – for me at least.
I find the new format incredibly lacking in regards to finding and posting feedback. If I remember correctly, I read that @codinghorror said something about it being to labor intensive and expensive to add a convenient trader feedback feature. Please correct me codinghorror if I’m inaccurate in my response.
Upon transaction with a user, either find the existing topic for that user in the Traders Feedback category, or create a new one if it does not yet exist. Search by the username in that category:
After a transaction, post your feedback on the transaction as a reply to the seller’s feedback topic , like so:
To make it easier to find, the seller attaches that topic to their user card via their user preferences, under User → Preferences → Profile → Featured Topic near the bottom
At that point, you can now easily find and refer to the seller’s feedback topic on their user card, like so:
There could certainly be more sophisticated ways to do this, but this simple method leverages the built in functionality in Discourse and it is relatively easy to understand… it’s just another reply in a standard topic.
Ideally the user will have their feedback topic pinned to their user card / profile. But if they don’t, or if they have no feedback yet, you’ll need to search the Traders Feedback category. Here’s how.
Enter the Traders Feedback category and use the search button at the upper right, your search will be scoped to the current category by default (the checkbox will be checked)
enter the username you are looking for and see what matches.
(one slight complexity here is that the mods have to stay on top of merging duplicate feedback topics… or maybe there could be multiple feedback topics if there are special dramas, I’m not sure.)