Originally Posted by
stopusingebay
As many of you probably know, eBay used to allow positive and negative feedback going both ways. Eventually it came to be that buyers would not leave much needed negative feedback for fear that the seller would retaliate with negative feedback.
Here is my solution:
Optionally hide feedback from being seen by non eBid employees until the 75 day time frame to leave feedback has passed, or all feedback that can be given between a particular buyer and seller has been given. Perhaps it would be necessary to ensure that feedback given to buyers cannot be revised to be made more negative. This allows people who leave neutral feedback such as "waiting for feedback from buyer" to still be able make it positive, but not break the system by leaving positive feedback to reveal that they were given negative feedback, and then revising the feedback to negative to get revenge.
A check box could be added to the feedback forum to activate the feature so that a user giving feedback can hide their feedback for 75 days or until feedback in both directions has been given. Maybe the feature should be enabled for everybody, since someone might assume that delayed feedback is going to be negative