Let's stop telling newbies that they can buy an account to join sig campaigns. - page 2.

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Quote from: koshgel on September 15, 2015, 06:14:08 PM

Quote from: Xian01 on September 15, 2015, 02:16:52 PM

Every time an account gets sold and bought on Bitcointalk, Theymos gets another pineapple shoved up his ass in hell.

That's pretty descriptive Shocked

It's a losing battle twister. As long as account selling/buying is condoned, people will have access to more senior accounts.

Report the obvious spammy posts by people in signature campaigns and hope they get the ban hammer. Maybe accounts will stop being bought then.

The logic ends here. Whether or not the activity is condoned, it will happen. There is too much incentive. It would simply be driven off the forum.

As long as signature campaigns are tolerated on the forum, I don't really see an issue here.

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Quote from: Xian01 on September 15, 2015, 02:16:52 PM

Every time an account gets sold and bought on Bitcointalk, Theymos gets another pineapple shoved up his ass in hell.

That's pretty descriptive Shocked

It's a losing battle twister. As long as account selling/buying is condoned, people will have access to more senior accounts.

Report the obvious spammy posts by people in signature campaigns and hope they get the ban hammer. Maybe accounts will stop being bought then.

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Are OP talking my post: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.12427431 ?
Well, as previous posts here said, selling/buying accounts are allowed, and here's a quote from the unofficial list of rules thread:

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18. Having multiple accounts and account sales are allowed, but account sales are discouraged.

Also, every time a person buy/sell an account, he/she is in fact doing a trade with bitcoin, and hence increase its usage.

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Every time an account gets sold and bought on Bitcointalk, Theymos gets another pineapple shoved up his ass in hell.

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Quote from: antagonist on September 15, 2015, 09:36:27 AM

did you ever think they are sockpuppets?, create new accounts, asking a basic questions, answer with their alts for sig campaign.

Way to much work and sad if anyone is doing this. I do think there are sockpuppets in some of the sales threads, i view a lot of the new accounts that put a vouch as this.

As far as newbies I suggest anymore they wait till member or so. Get use to using forum and posting good post's, that are not crap. But I'm sure most ignore this which is their right to do.

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Quote from: hilariousandco on September 15, 2015, 08:53:37 AM

Quote from: twister on September 15, 2015, 08:48:59 AM

Now I know forum doesn't minds selling/buying of accounts but I don't think it's right to tell any newbie that comes through the door that he should simply buy an account and join sig campaigns. We were all newbies once and where we are right now we spent a lot of time and effort to be here and ultimately they might learn about this but let's not suggest this as the first thing.

You might not think it's right, but that's just your opinion. The responses he got are valid and is arguably good advice. It is well worth it for someone to invest in an account to bypass the restrictions and some people wont want to wait many months just to get to a rank where they can earn decent amount.

Quote from: twister on September 15, 2015, 08:48:59 AM

So can I report such posts which suggests newbies to buy accounts to Mods and hope that they get removed? I think all this account buying/selling does more bad than good and it should atleast not be recommended to newbies. Undecided

You can report them but you'll almost certainly get a bad report.

Ok. I'll just turn a blind eye then. Sad

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did you ever think they are sockpuppets?, create new accounts, asking a basic questions, answer with their alts for sig campaign.

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Quote from: ndnh on September 15, 2015, 09:10:34 AM

Yeah, I agree with you. But no one really does anything.. In fact I have a feeling the practice is actually encouraged.

Just because there is no rule saying anyone can do this or that around here, doesn't mean they are completely allowed to. Isn't there any rule against doxxing Huh

There's no rule against doxing. Selling/Buying accounts is completely allowed. There's no grey area, it's been stated by multiple sources including staff members that account trading is allowed. Unless, the account trading interferes with another rule, such as ban evasion for example it's completely allowed. Personally, I don't think it's encouraged much either, it's frowned upon by much of the community or at least was.

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What about deleting DOXes?
A: Nope, we don't delete them either as long as they are on topic. Why? Because doxing is just compiling information about a user already available publicly, often via search engines

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Yeah, I agree with you. But no one really does anything.. In fact I have a feeling the practice is actually encouraged.

Just because there is no rule saying anyone can do this or that around here, doesn't mean they are completely allowed to. Isn't there any rule against doxxing Huh

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Buying and selling accounts are not against forum's rule since the admin or mods are not banning it publicly. It is a free forum anyone can do whatever he likes if he is not spamming or trolling here!

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Quote from: twister on September 15, 2015, 08:48:59 AM

So can I report such posts which suggests newbies to buy accounts to Mods and hope that they get removed? I think all this account buying/selling does more bad than good and it should atleast not be recommended to newbies. Undecided

They won't be removed. It's likely, that if a newbie comes here for the sole purpose of earning money through posting, they are going to be spamming, and will be dealt with sooner or later by a staff member. If they aren't spamming, and contributing to discussions and the forum, then I don't see a problem with them purchasing an account for signature campaigns.

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Quote from: twister on September 15, 2015, 08:48:59 AM

Now I know forum doesn't minds selling/buying of accounts but I don't think it's right to tell any newbie that comes through the door that he should simply buy an account and join sig campaigns. We were all newbies once and where we are right now we spent a lot of time and effort to be here and ultimately they might learn about this but let's not suggest this as the first thing.

You might not think it's right, but that's just your opinion. The responses he got are valid and is arguably good advice. It is well worth it for someone to invest in an account to bypass the restrictions and some people wont want to wait many months just to get to a rank where they can earn decent amount.

Quote from: twister on September 15, 2015, 08:48:59 AM

So can I report such posts which suggests newbies to buy accounts to Mods and hope that they get removed? I think all this account buying/selling does more bad than good and it should atleast not be recommended to newbies. Undecided

You can report them but you'll almost certainly get a bad report.

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I was just over at Beginners and help section and saw a thread where a newbie was asking about pay per post and how one gets paid through the forum (He thought that forum members get paid by forum) and some people corrected him saying that it's not the forum that pays but the signature campaigners does and since he's a newbie he won't get paid much.

And someone else suggested that he should buy an account and that way he can join high paying campaigns and receive good ROI. Now I know forum doesn't minds selling/buying of accounts but I don't think it's right to tell any newbie that comes through the door that he should simply buy an account and join sig campaigns. We were all newbies once and where we are right now we spent a lot of time and effort to be here and ultimately they might learn about this but let's not suggest this as the first thing.

So can I report such posts which suggests newbies to buy accounts to Mods and hope that they get removed? I think all this account buying/selling does more bad than good and it should atleast not be recommended to newbies. Undecided

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