During a recent exchange with @Elias to help make my dreams of a G20 come true, I got reminded we had done some sales of parts in the past.
Though I generally have always had good interactions with buying and selling on tne forum I was wondering if there’s an option to send someone a badge or a way to verify you had a successful transaction with a person for others to see.
You could verify you actually got your crankset and not a dead racoon.
Was it a KH dead raccoon? Or a Nimbus?
This is a good idea. Many forums that lack such a built-in feature use a dedicated topic for people to report that a transaction went well and that XXX is trustworthy.
We can surely create a topic for this right now, and think about how it could transition to a cleaner feature.
@admins, can someone create a “user reviews”, pinned topic in Trading Post?
Now with AI, building plugins is easier than ever, including maintenance… But a plugin is still, and will always be an additional potential breaking point in the future, after a forum update or anything.
So, there are pros and cons to weigh. 
Agreed, a dedicated thread is probably the simplest. Members who are trading here are a tiny percentage, and often it’s more a convenience (“I’m not using this saddle anymore”) than a business model.
One of the other forums I use has a dedicated category for this, but the scale of that specific forum is massive. And yes, it has plenty of people selling parts on a regular basis. In our case, a simple thread is probably enough.
Done!
Feel free to review past trades experiences, of course.
That’s totally off-topic, but I wouldn’t build a plugin with AI nowadays. You have about 50% chance it’ll create a security issue that’ll leak the whole database… 
Yeah, that’s probably debatable depending on the project and context, but (the context is Discourse plugin, duh) I agree that nobody without programming skills should use AI to output something then share it to the public and let people use it. That’s a recipe for disaster.
And I was probably over-enthusiastic when I wrote the part you quoted 
I’ve created a couple of projects I shared on the official forum, but not released as proper plugins, with the warning that they are not to be considered production-ready and that nobody should install them if not able to review the code. That they are drafts or proof of concept.
Discourse provides guidelines for AIs specifically aimed at Discourse development, and AIs have access to the codebase. If you’re cautious AND you review the code, I think the risks are limited, especially for simple plugins.
In the case of the 🖼️ [Experimental] Topic Galleries plugin, I’m taking my time to learn and review the code more thoroughly. But from what I’ve already seen (before installing it!), security is OK. Safeguards are in place through built-in Discourse security features. I specifically requested some, and it did others by itself.
I have a good example of a security failure. When trying to build a project (not the gallery plugin!) with Gemini, by copy pasting, and Gemini not having access to specialized guidelines and codebase.
The plugin was meant to display the list of users’ uploads for admins for moderation purposes.
But without asking for any security feature, the code it provided actually leaked the uploads to anyone, not only admins. Even visitors had access to all the site’s uploads.
Can’t be too careful. Following your opinion I’ve disabled the gallery plugin until I have completed my in-depth review 