Topic: How do you feel about multiple accounts? (Read 358 times)

Long time ago, I read a topic, in which have a thread stated that even the forum staffs have altcoins for their own purposes.
In addition, the forum rules have not prohibited multiple accounts.
That's the point!
The true problem is most of alt accounts come from account farms. The owners of account farms simply shown their shits around the forum.
Some of them even used spamming bots (copy & paste, plagiarises, etc) for their money-hunting purposes.
Of course, it should not be disallowed. Merit system has solved the spamming endemic from account farms by letting those shitty accounts stucked at their low ranks at the start day of merit system.

I'm entirely alright with multiple accounts, as long as the post quality is alright. As simple as that. People like you should not have multiple accounts, but I don't see why a really active, great contributor would not be allowed to post on multiple accounts...

The amount of broken English, entirely irrelevant comments and awful content we get, isn't caused just by people owning multiple accounts... It's caused by spammers, who are awful by definition and will still use multiple accounts, even if we try to prohibit it.

I don't think it should be disallowed. And if it were disallowed, how the heck would one catch all the multiple accounts owners?

Yep, totally agree. I don`t have any active alt account for the moment, but, due to the political situation in my country I do think it to be necessary in order to feel free to post whatever I want without compromising my identity in here.

To the OP, the big problem we have is spamming. Simple and clear. You can have multiple accounts if you desire, but the problem is that many of the people creating alts are doing it with the only goal of farming their accounts and engage in more and more bounties, so they can spam the forum with 3 or 4 accounts. Also, there are pages in which you can pay for someone to create an account and get activity for you. This is the problem: spamming. Everything is reduced to that.

Now, the rules are clear about spamming, however, few are complaining them and acting correctly in the forum. The 90% of the people in here came after the December`s hype with the only goal of making money, of milking the forum. Yes, some of them are creating infinite alts, yes, some of them use them as a way of spamming even harder. But we can`t just limit the freedom of the good ones based on what the others are doing. It would be an intolerable collateral damage.

It's much more profitable before merit being implement because it can be use for bounty or campaign's farming.
But if we talk about multiple account nowadays, it won't be easy like past anymore !

Personally I don’t give a shit if people have alts, I really don’t care. As long as they’re not scamming or shit posting it doesn’t interest or bother me in the slightest.

As long as they’re posting well enough & the feel like having loads of accounts in signature campaigns then good luck to them. I couldn’t be bothered to have more than 1 account in a sig campaign. It takes up enough time & effort just having one.

There’s more to worry about in life than somebody running a couple of accounts on here. Like I said as long as they’re not doing it for questionable reasons then good luck.

Correct, its for their own safety that they dont want to use their main accounts while they are on the road or using less secure networks to browse.

It is possible with the proper tools. I will not into details because that is blackhat.

As long the OP declares publicly about their alt accounts and makes sure someone from DT marks them with neutral trust for being an alt it should be alright. In case they ever want to abuse bounties both the accounts will be marked with red.

What's your point there?
'Using public connections to avoid getting hacked", I don't really get small partially points of your ideas, honestly.
I don't see correlations between the public connections and efficient way to avoid hacks of main-accounts, and correlations between your thread with the topic.
Much confused after reading your thread. 

I disagree, some user on this forum have multiple accounts and if i'm not wrong, they used it in public connection(such as public wifi or something) to avoid getting hacked. So, the main account is safe from getting hacked.
But i don't know how to hack via wifi or other public connection. I can be wrong too.

For OP, i'm okay with multiple accounts as long as he/she doesn't use it for earn more money(like account seller or abusing bounty/signature campaign).

Maybe you want to sell something here that others may frown upon or judge you for. Maybe you want to talk about politics without it effecting your reputation here. Maybe you want an alt account to use on less secure connections. Maybe you want to call out corruption or a scam but don't want to be the victim of possible retaliation. Maybe there are some other valid reasons. There are several reasons why it isn't prohibited as well. Policing alt accounts effectively would be near impossible and not to mention very time consuming and demanding much manpower. If you really wanted an alt account whether they were disallowed or not then you could just use a proxy, and hence why they are allowed, but of course there are negatives as well as positives and people obviously do abuse the rule here.

Multiple accounts should not be allowed in my opinion. What genuine purpose can be served with this ?

I wouldn't care if you had a hundred accounts making a hundred posts a day each, just as long as you were making worthwhile contributions. The issue is, people have numerous accounts just to spam with as quickly as possible to milk bounties and signature campaigns for all they're worth, and that's when it become an issue because the quality of the forum drops drastically and exponentially as more and more people sign up every day with multiple accounts just to bleed bounties. When you can get paid for regurgitating the same one line shitpost over your half a dozen accounts why would people bother writing anything more? The longer somebody spends on one post they less they earn so it's inefficient for them to actually make quality contributions. 


It's meant to be that they are all banned and the others will in fact be ban evading if still used, but there's nobody looking out for ban evasion so people can just freely evade away on their hundred alt accounts. Even users who are caught abusing the forum en mass with hundreds if not thousands of bots are never looked into so it's like playing whack-a-mole. You might catch a handful of accounts but there could be thousands more that are still posting away.

My impression is that OP wants to have more accounts and want to hijack more contents to acquire more tokens from the bounty campaigns. And he thinks its morally correct. No one will stop a user from having more accounts, I don't know how you will handle it and earn from someone else content but plagiarism  is just one rule to follow.

You should read the rule and guidelines first.
IF you aware the members who are using more than one account ,then report it ,but don't make the threads in your assumption.

If you get a ban, it's you (as a person) who is banned... This includes any account you own.
The only thing you're allowed to do after being banned is open one (1) thread discussing your ban in the meta subforum. If you use any alt account to continue posting while being banned, you're ban evading (which is, in itself, also a bannable offence).

Back on topic, i see nothing wrong with having multiple accounts IF they're not used to troll, shill, self-bump, self-vouch,... I think there are several use-cases in which it would be ok to have multiple accounts:
- one anonymous account, one doxxable account
- one account with an easy password for when you're on the road, one main account with a hard password for when you're behind your desk
- an account for branding purposes (if you own a business and "claim" the account that corresponds with your business name)
- ...

I think there is some overlapping between the rules. It says that having multiple accounts is allowed but accounts sales are discouraged. But what happens in case of permanent ban. I have read replies that a member is not allowed to open a new account in that case. But what happens if a member got his account banned and already had other accounts created before the ban ?

The OP author should ask home or herself that whether the topic is necessary or not.

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Finding old topics which can give available answers is better than creating a new one.
Some questions asked and been answered repeatedly in the forum.
No need to start a new one links this.

OP, your writing is like an atrocious torture instrument.  Please avail yourself of the local boards.

Multiple accounts ARE allowed here, but I'm sure you already know that.  What isn't generally allowed is entering more than one of your accounts into a sig campaign or bounty.  Copy/pasting should be understood as a thing you shouldn't do without citing where you took the material from.  Why should anyone get credit--and usually get paid, no less--for someone else's work?  That should be a no-brainer.  Unfortunately a lot of people like yourself can't write for shit and they (not you specifically) have to resort to stealing stuff from the internet, and they think nothing of doing so.

You might want to read the rules of the forum so you're not asking unnecessary questions.  Do more reading and waaay less posting. 

I think when you just read the rules of this forum then you will get the answer that you wanted.


and regarding to your second concern about the blogs,
for me it is unfair to work on something and someone will earn in your behalf.  I am so sorry for your lose and let us just hope that bounty managers will be more careful next time.

Who does not want to make a profit ?, Anyone also wants to find himself benefited in many ways, which should be with business and not in a way that is not allowed.

In fact, each gift has rules to follow to obey, but most of them use unacceptable ways, like multiple accounts, 1 person uses more than 1 account, so they can include more benefits from the gift, I feel sorry for others who want gifts in a clean way even if the income they generate is not very good for those who do dirty ways.

I am always wondering, is it allowed to use more than 1 account ?, Until now I only heard answers that still can not be ascertained. But there is one more thing I want to ask in this forum, especially for BLOG / ARTICLES BOUNTY, it has been confirmed that COPY / PASTE is not allowed by others because it needs to create articles from his own hands, but there are still things like that, AND GETTING they also get shares, but there are also other issues I found on bounty blogs, THEY with a dirty way of registering or entering someone ARTICLES LINK / BLOG, not from their own BLOG, and that I myself have been victimized by them, BLOG I created and I signed up for a gift that was re-registered on behalf of Eth and name, did they have no eyes to see that there were already rules set out in the prize thread.

If you find something like this ?, What do you feel ?, I think it's unfair, I feel sorry for those who play cleanly, sorry if there are misunderstandings and words that might make you a bit uncomfortable, but this is an experience when I follow the bounty, once again I apologize profusely for what I write this and thank you.