Seeing as how the entire topic was a joke to begin with, perhaps you should ease up and try not caring as much about who posts what in there. There's so much idiotic banter being bandied about in that section, to single out posts that paint you in an unfavorable light for censorship is a pretty cowardly maneuver.
Whatever point it is you think you are proving... you aren't. Now man up. Stop crying and move on with your day.
You very clearly took the topic seriously previously,
Here's part of my opening post, just to get a glimpse of how "serious" I was being.
Everyone gets two votes, as it may very well be a combination of factors. For example, I think that George Soros teamed up with the Lizard People to punish Trump for not bending to their One Government / New World Order agenda. I added "Donald Trump" as a joke option at the end, because as we all know, he's probably the most perfect president America has ever had. And definitely the best.
I understand part of your mental condition is your inability to grasp sarcasm. Sorry for not adding a "/s" at the end of my post.
As usual, rules don't count for you, just for when you can use them as a cudgel against others.
Care to elaborate?
Regardless of how much you want to pretend the whole thread was a joke, your personally directed circle jerk is still not on topic. Also if you are saying it was all a joke, it belongs in Off Topic, not Politics and Society. Either way you are off topic.
Sure I can elaborate with an example.
http://web.archive.org/web/20190704162438/https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1622642.0
Fixed. I've still yet to see any proof of accounts being sold to be used for 'mass propganda'.
Who cares what the person is gonna do with the account? Whatever it is, it is BULLSHIT because they are pretending to be a different person. This makes them a liar, an impostor, a bullshitter.
And here you are a staff member defending this behavior.
You guys are greedy beyond belief. What would Satoshi say if he read about this? I can't help but think he would say you destroyed the original intention of his forum and turned it into a breeding ground for scum and villainy.
I think the main rationale and reasoning for allowing accounts to be sold is because allowing them lets others know that the practice can and does go on and banning them may give people a false sense of security, not to mention banning their sale will not stop the behaviour from happening and only push it further underground and into obscurity.
This forum also doesn't moderate or ban scammers, but that doesn't mean we allow or encourage them nor do we profit from it in any way from it.
Still, you are impersonating somebody unless you disclaim that you bought their account, which never happens. So buying accounts is a 100% dishonest manuver. Its never been used for an honest purpose because pretending to be somebody you are not is lying.
I dunno, while I appreciate your explanation, it still just seems that you are sticking up for criminals at the end of the day. I really don't understand how you guys can live with yourselves knowing how many crimes are committed here on a daily basis. I certainly hope you don't actually believe you are contributing to some benevolent force in the world because you are not.
You're just telling thieves and scammers its OK to be a thief and scammer here. In the end it will decrease your revenue, not mine.
Rules are only a tool for you to apply to every one else, not for you to follow.