Topic: Don’t Buy Bitcointalk Account as a Newbie (Read 721 times)

That is one of the major side effects of this account buying, someone who’s a scammer might buy an account from someone who has a reputation of been trustworthy and legit but now cos people just easily follow up on his usual updates, a scammer might jus use that to deceive people and cost them their hard earned funds.

Don’t Buy Bitcointalk Account as a Newbie

The forum is open to all as much as Bitcoin itself is open to all but there are some things that shouldn’t be done.

Buying an account as a newbie is like jumping high school to go to college ( you’ll just be floating)

Some of the effects of buying an account includes;
1. No Proper Knowledge:
A while back there was this post where a hero member was asking a question about merits which he isn’t supposed to, his question just exposed him and proved that he didn’t grow that account. In his defence he said he’s been away for a long time but no matter how long, if you’re truly the owner who got to Hero member level you won’t forget how the merit system works.
You miss the learning process, where you gather all confidence, Rules and regulations, experiences, a whole lot.

2. You Risk Loosing the Account:
Plagiarism which is a big offense in any write up, dissertation, Projects and publishing is also not acceptable here in the forum. The previous owner might have done one or two offenses in his/her early stages which you’re not aware of and this might cost you in the long run.

3. Reputation/Scam:
Depending on the level of account you purchased, I think You might not be able to keep up with the reputation of the person cos no two minds are alike.
Some people can even use it to scam other individuals, based on the reputation of the previous owner.

4. Making Low quality posts:
The experience and creativity garnered during the growing process will be lacking. Sometimes you see some posts from high level members looking weak and poor, due to laziness to properly research.


I think there are so many other Reasons why you shouldn’t buy an account but this is just as I’ve known.
It’s not advisable as a newbie to buy an account.

You can add other general disadvantages that concerns everyone.

I think you are wrong about the part where no one is paying attention to the account sellers because the forum account of those account sellers that are proven to be a seller is tagged as account sellers although it won't completely stop them from selling account since they can create new accounts to sell again.

There is no law about it as you have said but it is frown upon doing so it kinda means that it's not allowed to buy accounts even though there's no rule about it.

By the way, I learnt the forum does not have any law against buying and selling of accounts so I do not see a problem here.

Regardless of your position, it's still discouraged in the forum to buy or even sell an account. Most especially for newbies where you should focus more on acquiring basic knowledge and information so you can understand the nature of bitcoin and its market itself.

Now, if your purpose is to participate and earn from a signature campaign, then the more that you should know bitcoin well and take the learning process.

Remember that, signature campaign aims to provide quality and valuable posts that will educate the reader itself, and any newbie in position won't be able to achieve that without taking much time learning and understanding not only the forum but most especially bitcoin and all its stuff that revolves around the crypto market.

There have been so much talk about people buying accounts and much of the people at the receiving end are the buyers but no one is paying attention to the sellers and how they grow those accounts to sell. If someone specialises in account selling, then it means the person is abusing and cheating system including the merif system because it is only a merit source that can farm such accounts for sell. I know it will not be easy finding the sellers but it is a moral burden on us to discourage people from selling accounts because if there are no sellers, buyers won't see any account to buy.

By the way, I learnt the forum does not have any law against buying and selling of accounts so I do not see a problem here.

The forum is open to all as much as Bitcoin itself is open to all but there are some things that shouldn’t be done.

Buying an account as a newbie is like jumping high school to go to college ( you’ll just be floating)

I didn't know that bitcointalk accounts can be bought and sold. Does someone work so hard to achieve a high rank to sell an account? Newbies can't reply properly. So if you think about it, the reach of a high-ranking account will be completely down. Will that user be considered a signature competent later? I think buying a bitcointalk account is not a stupid thing to do?

As a newbie ~

Bitcointalk forum is one forum that holds the reputation of it's members at a very high esteem. Account buying in this forum should be highly prohibited because such transactions doesn't only put the buyer at risk, but every member of this forum will also be at risk. This is because, a new member with a questionable reputation will be added to the forum through the back door. If he turns out to be a scammer, some members of this forum might innocently fall victim to such scams thinking they are dealing with the account they used to know. Trust will obviously be lost in the forum

Borrowed accounts from others, we who are new will face a difficult problem in increasing the continuity of that account, because we who are new will not be able to manage our accounts the way an experienced person manages his account. So we who are new should move forward by accumulating experience.

Buying of account in this forum is totally unnecessary, even though the forum is not against it, but it'll be like not following the due process to grow the account. Especially for newbies who don't have any experience about Bitcoin and altcoins, they'll find it very difficult to cope with the expectations of a ranked up member. It'll be ridiculous if the newbie were to ask a question that the bought account should know, and it'll make a mockery of the account.

The only instance that I can imagine for an account to change Hands is if the owner of the account perhaps for health reasons can not continue to be active in the forum. Maybe he can let somebody else that will have the experience to post on the level of rank of the account to take over, since the forum allows it.

Before someone decides to buy an account in the forum the person is already aware of the dangers of having an account that is originally owned by someone else and the person intention is nothing but to get what he or she didn't wo3k hard for which is the opportunity of getting in to a signature campaign to make money. Scam is possible if the person is smart enough to convince and deceive other members but I think from the writing of some accounts it is still very easy to dectate an account that has changed hands and I'm happy we have some good members who takes time to fish out those accounts that has actually changed hands.

Buying of account in this forum is totally unnecessary, even though the forum is not against it, but it'll be like not following the due process to grow the account. Especially for newbies who don't have any experience about Bitcoin and altcoins, they'll find it very difficult to cope with the expectations of a ranked up member. It'll be ridiculous if the newbie were to ask a question that the bought account should know, and it'll make a mockery of the account.

The only instance that I can imagine for an account to change Hands is if the owner of the account perhaps for health reasons can not continue to be active in the forum. Maybe he can let somebody else that will have the experience to post on the level of rank of the account to take over, since the forum allows it.