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Trading accounts, especially those that have a history of trading (i.e. ratings) is highly shady. Therefore, anyone who engages in this behavior is shady thus untrustworthy. Tagging them is the only rational response to this behavior. Now, if you're asking why some aren't tagged and some are, that is also rather a simple question to answer. It's time-wasteful to tag every throwaway account seller. The accounts that are actually being traded are those that should be primarily tagged.

Tagged.

It's not against the forum rules to scam technically (or staff don't usually intervene) but the community will certainly tag you if they think you're up to shady behaviour and a lot of people here think selling accounts is shady hence the feedback.

you report those users to the mods... It's not because a "regular" user thinks that selling accounts is untrustworthy (thus deserving red trust) that the mod will feel the same... AFAIK, mod's can delete, lock or edit posts and they're in direct contact with the forum admins when they feel somebody needs to get banned.

Since selling accounts is not against the forum rules, mods cannot delete or edit the user's posts, nor can they recommand a ban to the forum admins.

I personally don't have a strong opinion on account sales (don't really like the practice of account selling, but i don't feel strong enough to leave negative trust to account sellers), but if you personally think account sellers are untrustworthy, nothing is stopping you from giving them negative trust yourself...

So, to summarise
=> clicking on the "report" button will send a request to the mods. Mods have to moderate infractions against the forum's rules. Since account selling isn't an infraction, they probably do nothing at all
=> a lot of people feel that selling accounts is one of the reasons the post quality got so low, and so many scammers are active on this forum, so they personally think an account seller is untrustworthy. That's why they give negative trust. A mod might also give negative trust, but that's under his own name, and not under his "jurisdiction" as a forum moderator.

I want to say more or less the same as Vod, but wanted to add some detail...

It is legal to buy and sell account (in case they're acquired honestly). As for your question why a user got red trust for buying/selling: because the trust system is not meanth as a moderation tool.

If you do something against the forum rules, you don't automatically get red trust, you get a warning or you get banned.
If you do something someone on this forum finds untrustworthy, he (or she) might give you red trust for this.

It's not against the law - so it's legal.

It's not against forum rules - so it's allowed.

However it is frowned upon, so you will probably get negative trust from some DT members.

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