Originally Posted by
Patricia
Here is an idea...
I think I already know it is one we can't run with, as clients won't go for it, but I wanted to share it anyway, as maybe it is food for thought that will give somebody else another idea that could work.
What is we had 2 levels of membership for clients on this message board:
Level 1 - Regular membership as is now
Level 2 - Premium membership costing 1 euro once off fee which must be paid by credit or debit card and our systems would never allow the same credit card number to be used more than once and might even be able to only accept Irish bank issued credit or debit cards (not sure if merchant banks allow you to restrict things like this). We would never ask for names, addresses, just credit card number and expiry date, and we could work it out that all that appeared on members' credit card statements was something very generic like "123Membership", maybe we could even do it via a third party so the details never even went to E-I.
Then, our reviews system was changed, so only level 2 members could post reviews - Level 1 members would not be able to post reviews.
This would mean people could only have as many accounts as they had access to credit or debit cards. It wouldn't stop people having more than one account as people often can get their hands on more than one credit card, but it probably would make it a lot less common that fakers managed to maintain multiple accounts, as they would have to get a new credit card every time.
I'm guessing this would never work, not because clients would object to paying a euro fee, but because clients would object to doing anything that threatens their total anonymity.
However wanted to post this anyway, in case this idea prompts anyone else to come up with a better idea that could work.
Pat x
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