[Nancy1999]

Originally Posted by genesmasher

Yep, this is our view as well. We will just have to wait and see if it is actually true.





Actually, breeder CAN add all this information in their listing. They can include upto 400 characters of text in there, and many of them do have descriptions (just look at Rosehill Yorkies listing). But it requires them to login and spend a couple of minutes actually typing these things in (yes, what a chore !!!) - we cant do it for them. The issue with the questionnaire you propose is that there is no way for us to verify any of the information provided...

By the way, breeders also already have an option to provide a "reply" to every review given, right under each of the reviews.

One of the few things we are considering right now is displaying "Breeder of Merit" badge for breeders that received this award. This is something that we can actually verify with AKC. The problem is, we are not sure if this is actually a good measure of breeder reputability - we actually have a poll on our home page right now - it would be great if some of your voted there:

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Nope, the breeders are NOT allowed to review their own listings (the system automatically checks against that). Of course, they can create a new user account and leave a review as someone else... We haven't thought of an effective way to catch these yet, but adding additional information to the review (like a date of transaction, details about the puppy, etc) may not be a bad idea. Ultimately, it is a question of how much effort someone would want to make trying to falsify data, just to raise their reported breeder "rank" on the site. One other thing we were thinking about was sorting "by ranking", but decided not to do it in the end. For now, our breeder search results are completely randomized, and a breeder with no reviews can still be on top of the pile, when users run a search. We don't think it is unreasonable to expect users to do their share of work and look through all the listings carefully.

I read it on your site they were allowed to review themselves. The point is though they can create a new user account or have friends and relatives review them, it happens here all the time, but YT'ers are pretty savvy and can spot them. I do appreciate the fact that you are willing to listen to suggestions.