Beagle-zebub
Member
As we're well-aware, some hunters have given the whole of us a bad-reputation, what with their littering, destructiveness, or whathaveyou.
It occurs to me that eBay uses feedback to hold people accountable when they burn their customers, or to at least prevent it from happening again. What if a website was created where farmers could post the names of the hunters that they'd let hunt their land, along with good or bad feedback? A farmer need only search for bad feedback to make sure that he isn't permitting hunting by someone who is a schmuck; since it will be the farmers posting the negative feedback, they won't have any real reason to lie. This system would probably require the use of the hunters' actual names, but the website could be closed to private viewing. To certify that the people giving the feedback are actually farmowners or otherwise residents owners of their property, they could just post a picture of the envelopes they get a few bills in, showing their address, which then need only be Googled to certify that it isn't a sham--to protect the identities of these farmers (from what, I know not), it would be a requirement for an account on the website. If the farmers ask to see the ID of the hunter, and have the tips and brain-cells necessary to spot fakes (as if they wouldn't be prohibitively costly anyway), it would be pretty hard for a bad apple to get around all of his bad feedback.
Such a website could also be a way to find farmers who are willing to allow hunting on their land--they could post their willingness (not that they would post in the first place if they weren't open to hunting), what they'll allow to be hunted, the terms on which they are to be approached (medium, time, etc.), and whether or not they are currently allowing the amount that isn't a nuisance to them.
Maybe this sounds like a ridiculous scheme, but I'm sure eBay and Wikipedia did, too.
It occurs to me that eBay uses feedback to hold people accountable when they burn their customers, or to at least prevent it from happening again. What if a website was created where farmers could post the names of the hunters that they'd let hunt their land, along with good or bad feedback? A farmer need only search for bad feedback to make sure that he isn't permitting hunting by someone who is a schmuck; since it will be the farmers posting the negative feedback, they won't have any real reason to lie. This system would probably require the use of the hunters' actual names, but the website could be closed to private viewing. To certify that the people giving the feedback are actually farmowners or otherwise residents owners of their property, they could just post a picture of the envelopes they get a few bills in, showing their address, which then need only be Googled to certify that it isn't a sham--to protect the identities of these farmers (from what, I know not), it would be a requirement for an account on the website. If the farmers ask to see the ID of the hunter, and have the tips and brain-cells necessary to spot fakes (as if they wouldn't be prohibitively costly anyway), it would be pretty hard for a bad apple to get around all of his bad feedback.
Such a website could also be a way to find farmers who are willing to allow hunting on their land--they could post their willingness (not that they would post in the first place if they weren't open to hunting), what they'll allow to be hunted, the terms on which they are to be approached (medium, time, etc.), and whether or not they are currently allowing the amount that isn't a nuisance to them.
Maybe this sounds like a ridiculous scheme, but I'm sure eBay and Wikipedia did, too.
