Perhaps there is a paradox in the fact that I bought this account, and at the same time I argue that accounts trading should be banned.
I bought this account because it is allowed.
I don't know if that is a paradox, or just a kind of attempt at rationalization of your likely bad situation.. seemingly logical to lose the account.
Why do you think that my situation is bad?
I think that I already said as much as I want to say on the topic. Ultimately it is up to the administrators what to do with your account, and they would likely have access to information that I don't have and I don't know if you have such information, either.
That's it.
I argue that account trading should be banned because in my opinion it is the main reason why account farmers earn and do what they do. And account trading mainly distorts the ranking system and merit point system.
I'm surprised that nobody talks about it till now!?
I doubt that account trading, farming or the ability to sell is a new topic. I have seen older post on the topic, so difficult to argue that it is some kind of new phenomenon.
I recall that I lost access to my account twice. Once was my own fault to screw up my method of signing in, and my account got frozen for nearly a month; however, another time, my account was taken over by a hacker.
Having my account taken over by a hacker caused me to recognize the value of my account and its history, so I did jump through several hoops, and fairly promptly to get access to my account back. Sometimes, it can take several weeks or longer before legitimate owners might have realized that there account had been compromised, or what to do about such compromised situation. Further, I imagine that it can be a fairly time-consuming and tedious activity for forum administrators to be returning legitimate access (and verifying) actual owners during seemingly ongoing hacking situations.
Hacking accounts is other problem, we can do nothing about it, and in my opinion merit system have not much to do with that.
Hacking accounts has to do with ownership claims rather than being a merit system specific topic. Yet, if merit is given to an account prior to knowing whether there are hacking and/or ownership disputes, then those kinds of questions have been raised in the context of merit, fair merit distribution, etc.
This is obviously logical, it is more a problem of education about the security of each of us, than merit system. The consequences, of course, are always unpleasant, but it is more important to protect yourself.
If the topic of accounts trading was discussed (I missed it), I think we should keep it up.
I don't know how you would have missed the topic, because it was raised in light of your own account and in the context of your posting in this thread.
Yep, so if I started this topic, it is logic that I can't missed it.
Sorry, I understood that this was previously discussed in this thread.
I'm sure that this is what makes the biggest problem for merit and rank system
Again, it is not a merit/rank specific topic, and it mostly seems to have come up in connection with your account.
For me it is big problem for merit system and it is one from reasons why i write in this thread.
Banning account trading will give moderators power to permanent ban everyone who is involved. If Account farmers will have permission to do what they do, i'm sure that they will find way to bypass merit system. Actually i already wrote that, so you can go back to my previous post, where is example and what i think about that. So, YES, in my opinion we should to discuss that in merit/rank topic.
, and certainly there also would be less hacked accounts. I think that Theymos one more time should consider to ban this.
You seem to be both repeating a point that you already made and NOT making such point very clearly. Buying/selling accounts is not banned; however, if the account was stolen or compromised in that kind of way, then that seems to b where there becomes an issue. Sure Theymos could change the policy regarding having more than one account and regarding selling/trading accounts, but that does not seem to be a change that is the works, currently... and really, given your current status and situation, I doubt that your input or suggestion would carry very much weight with Theymos were he deliberating changes in such policy/practices.
If something is not clear in my point of view, please ask - We are here to discuss that.
As i wrote before, stolen/compromised accounts that is problem of security for each of us and forum administration, have not much to do with merit system.
For every healthy-minded person, most important should be what I write, not the opinion issued on the basis of someone's comment and his imagination.
