Quote Originally Posted by JGM View Post
All I have really seen is people saying "KWWH should do something to protect us from scammers". Now my question to you is thus;

Why should they?

This forum is provided free of charge to anybody who wishes to use it to come and learn about a huge range of topics such as hosting, DMCA, SEO and much much more. Not once is it said or written that KWWH will hold your hand while you learn how to walk! Getting KWWH directly involved with hosting issues is quite frankly stupid and just asking for trouble, it will/would open them up for all sorts of grief and could/would probably do far more harm than good.

That being said nobody wants to be scammed but it is your own responsibility to watch your own back and not KWWH's or its staff. I was once scammed in the past and I have learned my lesson from it, if you don't learn from your mistakes then you are doomed to always fail. KWWH and its staff do all they can already about banning scammers etc when the situation warrants it but they should never be held accountable for actions of anybody here who sell hosting (or any other service) which would be the case if they get involved. It could rapidly turn in to everybody bitching at KWWH and the staff because they were too stupid to be scammed in the first place. Staff would end up with being constantly pestered by childish members with PM's about "ooh such and such scammed me, you must do something because I am too stupid and only I matter at this point in time so you must focus on me and me alone". Now OK granted that is possibly a little over the top but you get the point

Remember if it is to good to be true then chances are that it isn't true.

JGM.
That's where the problem is.
Imagine what would happen if tomorrow some new Webmaster site comes up, that has Free Membership, Verified Webhosts (Few hosts but less scam), Uploader exchange, Free uploading bots etc.
I am sure people will move away from KWWH.

You could argue the same for the WHCMS rule.
People buying hosting, should be smart enough to check if a Webhost has a valid WHCMS license.

You might as well say, there should not be a Password Retrieval system on KWWH.
People should be smart enough to save their password securely in multiple places.

See the trend here ?


Quote Originally Posted by mahjong View Post
I think that:

There should be ranks for hosts (even use some css). Every host should have one thread, not a thread/offer.
If that thread is getting older and the host is still alive, after 6 months it should get a higher rank, after 12 months, it should get even higher, etc...
Every rank should have different colors, or something written in the title like ( Newbie host - Half-year host - Yearold host - Veteran host etc.)

Also in the thread there should be a timeline which would be editable only by moderators. There should be written every huge problems by user complains which are trustable, like:
2011.11.16 - Boxslots hacked, lot of user lost their sites
2011.11.31 - Boxslots hacked, user data lost
2010.10.20 - Boxslots down for 11 days

Etc.

Also, there should be a user rating system, five star method, which is only available for users with 50+ posts, so even new hosts would have the chance to get good ratings, but clearly, old hosts will have an upper hand... BUT this way with the timeline every of their huge mistakes will be there above the first post.
The best idea I have heard till now.
It will be somewhat like Katz.cd

You are more likely to find a better download link from a 4* or a 5* Katz site than a 1* site.
Same idea can be applied here.
I wish el_j were here