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The conclusion: involving Alt's account in the campaign, companies, managers, cannot accept, because they are classified as greedy and evil.
Meaning: such an act is unacceptable.
I understand your sentiments I really do but within the scenarios you stated my opinion is the word
greedy would be applicable but
evil is a bit excessive...
The last two points 7 and 8, in my opinion, are the most normal reasons why owning multiple accounts will not raise any suspicion or accusations. Let the user hide his alternate entry if he does not commit any negative actions, but does not want to talk about it, this is his right.
Seriously speaking, why does one user need to have more than 2 accounts? This is already beyond the normal range, in my opinion. And hints at some split personality. And thus, it is not difficult to guess that they will be used for fraud.
Having several accounts for promoting bounty programs and not making the most naive mistakes, I think, is also not prohibited.
We must always take into account the fact that if we accuse someone, we must have a decent evidence base. And if it is not there, then there is no one to blame, that is, there are no prohibitions on what cannot be proved.
People could have a whole host of reasons why they would use more than one account in the forum. Maybe the common reasons would be to join multiple signature campaigns but there have to be other reasons too and not all of them have to involve deception.
I don't have a problem with people using alt accounts to participate in multiple signature campaigns/bounties, as long as they're not using more than one account in the same campaign/bounty. Nor does it matter to me who the campaign manager is. If someone was enrolled in two of Yahoo62278's campaigns, I think that's not against the rules and I don't think it's morally or ethically wrong.
What alt accounts should not do is make posts in the same thread, giving the impression that there's a genuine conversation happening--that borders on spam, if you ask me, and I've caught people doing that in the past. And frankly, as long as the person with multiple accounts is making reasonably good posts across the board, who cares?
And whether any of us like alt accounts or not, it's up to the campaign/bounty managers to create the rules that deal with them.
Interesting views. I would have thought most users might be thinking two things:
First, that using multiple accounts for signature campaigns are acceptable as long as they are not enrolled in the same campaign using more than one account unless it is with explicit acceptance from the campaign manager - therefore the campaign manger would know either via PM or off forum chat.
Second, that using multiple accounts for signature campaigns are acceptable as long as they are not using the same campaign in more than one campaign.
Hopefully others will start posting here to share their views....
