scullyangel Posted:

I’ve had that happen to my auctions, too, and I know it is frustrating. It will in fact be seen less and less as we see files auctioned. 1 week ago I put up a Blood Spatter and it got flagged, by this week when I put one up the system had enough data to know that there wasn’t a problem – even though the file went for more than the first one.

Wouldn’t it make more sense for the system to never flag an auction for abuse if it only is aware of one or two other times its been auctioned, and have the abuse filter not kick in until there’s a quorum of data acquired? I mean, what’s more likely “A rare file is listed on Kyoubai, I bet collectors will all want to get it and it will command a high price” or “I suspect this file has not been auctioned off before, so I will use it in a fiendish scheme to transfer flezz and hope that collectors simply do not notice it.”?

The abuse filter may not need to go away, but it should probably work differently. I wonder what percentage of auctions flagged as abuse actually are a clear cut, or apparent, case of abuse. I mean, if you have five people with IPs in 4 states and 1 Canadian province bidding on an item, no matter how much it ends up selling for, there’s probably no actual abuse going on.

Would it save time to just file a bug report before the auction even closes? For example “This is the only time the Duke Nukem file has ever been listed on Kyoubai, and it only drops in PP:RotM which is no longer available to me. I am going to bid tends of millions of flezz on it, because I’m rich and I want to win. When you close this auction for abuse, please refer to this message, and undo that.”?