Continuing the discussion from Builder required:
Would it be possible to allow members here to anonymously down vote recommendations for specific businesses?
Personally I don’t really want to post negatively about a local business, especially if I could have had an unlucky experience. But at the same time if something is no longer good, it would be nice to set a little caution for others.
There are a few options available. The forum software allows us to enable anonymous posting for members who have a high enough “trust level” (we can decide the threshold).
Or we could ask members to contact the team privately if they’d like to “downvote” a business and we can post this from the @SE23.life account.
We run the risk of this method being abused by competitors of the business, as we have no way of vetting that reviewers are genuine customers.
It’s a tough one.
The reverse of this holds for the current system of positive reviews through. I don’t think it’s much different. Perhaps verified users only?