I am building a trust platform for p2p marketplaces (https://www.credport.org https://www.credport.org) and while there have been many great points mentioned in

I am building a trust platform for p2p marketplaces (https://www.credport.org https://www.credport.org) and while there have been many great points mentioned in this thread, I'd like to chime in as well. In general, most of the critics seem to say one of the two: 1. I'm obviously trustworthy, just look at me. 2. I want to have choice, I want to decide whether to host someone unverified or not. What people need to realize about trust in p2p marketplaces is that trust is irrelevant, it's the experience that matters. At the end of the day, it matters whether you get what you wanted, and if you didn't, well fuck, it must be Airbnb's fault. It's never the users fault. Think about it. On eBay, people get scammed every day. Does anyone say "well, that's just the users fault"? No, everyone says "eBay is full of scammers, I will never do it again". Same with the AppStores/Software Downloads. It's mostly the user's fault for downloading malicious software, but the platform always gets blamed. So what you do in this case, and what Airbnb is doing is to "clean" the platform, cause the last thing you want is to have another Methlab incident or become the next eBay