With many markets on the sidebar, and a more on the way, what requirements would you like to see markets meet before they are listed? Also, what organization would you like to see them in? Multisig first? Alphabetical? By date founded?
What seems fairest to you?
Note I am not a mod, I am just curious as to what the people think.
As a mod, I would love these questions answered by the community, as well. We have had lengthy (and, to be honest, sometimes heated) conversations about this in the mod-mail and we just cannot come up with a criteria that is cool with everyone on how to rank markets on the sidebar.
You would think we could just put the "well-established, safer" ones up top, but are any of the markets well-established? I mean, not really. We can't say that so-and-so is safer when we honestly do not know. We can't have a "New Marketplaces" continuation because... that's silly, they're all fairly new.
We have all tried coming up with ways to do this, but we just cannot unanimously decide what to do about it because there has to be some sort of criteria that each market has to meet before we have a ranked sidebar. And there just isn't one right now. We don't want to play favorites whatsoever, so we've had a lot of trouble with this.
So far, the markets aren't in a specific order at all. I guess I would say the Top 5 are the "most popular" markets so far, but that's about it. The others aren't in any order at all... first, I was just putting the hyperlinked markets together (the ones with their own subreddits) because it looked better. Then, I couldn't even continue doing that because the bottom three are also hyperlinked, but there's not much known/no reviews on any of them, really, so I would feel weird placing them above markets that have been around longer and just don't have their own subreddits... Like I said, agonizing over this damn sidebar has become part of my daily life. ;)
So, basically, TL;DR:
Any and all ideas you guys have are so, so welcome.