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Just so people know... selling accounts is allowed.
I wonder why though. Are there any good reasons to buy an account for non-scammers?
Ok getting past the newbie jail, but that's not really that much of an argument.
Giveaways that are usless to the account owner, meh. A slight argument, but nothing in face of the disadvantages of making the life for scammers easier.
wooooww. really??? selling of accounts is allowed here?
this forum rule could be designed for scamming then.
and this forum could have a LOT of scammers in it.
if i only knew.
Just so people know... selling accounts is allowed.
I wonder why though. Are there any good reasons to buy an account for non-scammers?
Ok getting past the newbie jail, but that's not really that much of an argument.
Giveaways that are usless to the account owner, meh. A slight argument, but nothing in face of the disadvantages of making the life for scammers easier.
Yeah..... Why is selling accounts allowed?
So they can scam people by creating fake enthusiasm about new stuff (e.g. alt-coins).
That's what comes to my mind, and I won't be a part of it.
I think AliceWonder has nailed it. I don't see any other reason that someone would buy accounts. They are buying the account holder's reputation, for whatever that may be worth. A reputation is, after all, a thing of great value that it takes a long time to build. It is worth something. So, it's no wonder that there are people willing to buy it. That is to be expected.
The real culprit in the transaction is the seller. He takes all of the trust he has built up and sells it to god-knows-who. It can pretty much be assumed that the buyer is unscrupulous, as he intends to pose publicly as something which he is not. So, why would someone sell their account, knowing -- or at least subconsciously suspecting -- that this is the case? I submit that the answer to that question lies in the seller's heart. Ask him why he has decided to sell out and quit the human race?
The board moderators cannot really stop this, and shouldn’t be expected to. But, in my opinion, they should not openly permit it.
This problem is obviously not unique to this board. Quite frankly, I never thought about this until this thread was started. It has opened my eyes. Sure, I often have several accounts on the same forum; for various reasons. But it never occurred to me to sell one of them.
Wachtwoord has offered a solution: identity verification through pgp-signs. It sounds plausible. Perhaps the moderators could look into this, and implement it as part of the account registration process.
Just so people know... selling accounts is allowed.
I wonder why though. Are there any good reasons to buy an account for non-scammers?
Ok getting past the newbie jail, but that's not really that much of an argument.
Giveaways that are usless to the account owner, meh. A slight argument, but nothing in face of the disadvantages of making the life for scammers easier.
Yeah..... Why is selling accounts allowed?
So they can scam people by creating fake enthusiasm about new stuff (e.g. alt-coins).
That's what comes to my mind, and I won't be a part of it.
Just so people know... selling accounts is allowed.
I wonder why though. Are there any good reasons to buy an account for non-scammers?
Ok getting past the newbie jail, but that's not really that much of an argument.
Giveaways that are usless to the account owner, meh. A slight argument, but nothing in face of the disadvantages of making the life for scammers easier.
Yeah..... Why is selling accounts allowed?
wait why do you need accounts? what are you doing with them?
I would ask the same thing. It's not identity theft; it's identity switch. But in some ways it amounts to the same thing. What's up with this? It makes me totally ignore who I am reading or talking to because I have no trust in the continuity of the person's identity.
Bingo.
That it is tolerated is a problem for me.
I don't play those kind of games.
Adios.
No. I said that if (some) people start selling forums accounts, everyone will start using pgp-sigs to prove they are who they claim to be.
Okay...sure. Self-protection. But this still doesn't answer my original question of why someone would buy accounts.
wait why do you need accounts? what are you doing with them?
I would ask the same thing. It's not identity theft; it's identity switch. But in some ways it amounts to the same thing. What's up with this? It makes me totally ignore who I am reading or talking to because I have no trust in the continuity of the person's identity.
It's okay to do this, but not okay to post a link to thesilkrdotcom. Scratch my head. Go figure.
People will make GPG accounts and sign messages that really need proven authenticy. For example here is my GPG sig: http://bitcoin-otc.com/viewgpg.php?nick=wachtwoord
I still don't get it. What is a GPG account?
A public/private cryptography pair. If you want to understand bitcoins, you should really first understand cryptography. Take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-key_cryptography
Indeed nice to read. Also check out: http://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual.html
Practically speaking, because of my public/private key pair (of which the public one is public and the private one only known to me):
1) Sign a message, proving I am the author
2) Someone can encrypt a message using my public key that only I can decrypt (event he sender cannot!)
All this requires me to keep my private key secure though
(This is the same system that is used in Bitcoin)Okay; the Wiki article is easy enough to understand. But it still -- at least to me -- does not explain why someone would buy a bitcointalk account. To generate gpg key pairs?? Why? What's the point? To impersonate a board member?
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