Negative references
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Negative references are useful in CouchSurfing, but definitely need to be improved.
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Possible improvements
Hear are some ideas to improve the situation. Feel free to work out ideas or to add another one. Try to keep things brief and concise.
No update battles anymore
Updating a reference shouldn't change its date (for avoiding reference-update-battles)
- Possibly only a negative reference doesn't change date.
CouchSearch can filter out negative references
- CouchSearch option to block out people with too many negative references (probably counting ratio -/+)
"Irrelevant" negative references
A negative reference from someone who has a lot of negative references shouldn't count
Second-chance
Imagine this: someone signup to CS. They have a first experience, and they get for some reason a negative reference. Most probably only having one negative reference, they will never get someone to host or surf again. Most people would delete their profiles and start again (this actually happens). But what if we could use (for only once time) a Second Chance. If you ask for a second chance all your references are lost (both positive and negative) And you get a second chance icon in your profile. This way someone can see you had some kind of trouble, but you are trying to start over. If someone with a second chance icon receives a negative reference again, then it will be likely to loose all reputation left.
