Editing Security features discussion on Brainstorm (section)

==Vouches==
===Criticisms===
*Vouching parties
*Vouching is permanent, when the memberbase is quite young and likely to change over years.

===Improvement suggestion===
* allow only one vouch per home town to count as a 'vouch'. This insures that
# travellers and hosts having real experiences of couchsurfing are doing the vouching, not local friends and relations and socializing buddies have experienced neither surfing nor hosting.
# cliques do not play the system
# people have an incentive to meet travellers and to go travelling
:* CON: travelers may be selectively hosted if they have a vouch, but this is true already.

*Having a tool to report people asking for vouches, suspend the vouching power of multiple offenders.
*Special reporting on "vouching parties" as reported in Sweden and India
*Having a delay of one month between the 3rd vouch and the possibility to vouch others.
*Rendering a clearer image of vouching through a couple of well-chosen examples: 'I would recommend my mother, and my sister and all her friends to stay with this person'
*Making the whole vouching tree going through one member visible.
**Highlight vouches from relatives of me. A vouch from a friend is more valuable to me than a vouch for userX.
*Allow unvouching, at least after a year.
*Restricting the vouches to people that shared hospitality.
*Allowing to vouch back only after a delay (to avoid the "I vouch for you if you vouch for me)
*Add a button saying 'report vouching violation' to make that easier - also a 'rollover' text which explains that vouching cannot be requested or coerced, and if it is, it is a violation