ORLY? never been raped or murdered myself.
Doesn't mean that it happens often in the real world. I've never been scammed, but look around at the forum; plenty of scams occur here.
you know what tho? I didn't know that accounts were bought & sold on bitcointalk before chancing into the auctions sub. even reported a couple, before I learned that it's a thing here.
so maybe we should put something like "ACCOUNTS ARE BOUGHT AND SOLD HERE, LOL" on the signup page, so noobs would know?
I think I phrased my statement wrongly. I meant to say, "however, the fact that an account is bought/sold can't be found out until either".
in that case, not sure I understand you. are you saying noobs won't know if accounts are bought and sold until they poke around the forum & stumble across an account for sale? If you're so intent on protecting the noobs from getting scammed by a bought account, why not simply put...
"WARNING: WHILE THE SALE OF USER ACCOUNTS IS PROHIBITED ON BITCOINTALK, ACCOUNTS COULD BE BOUGHT AND SOLD OFF-SITE. DUH!"...on the signup page?
besides, according to most account dealers/users around here, bought accounts are seldom involved in scams, so why not focus on more generalized warnings, like
"CAUTION! SOMETIMES, PEOPLE LIE! BE CAREFUL!"
Just because someone buys an account doesn't mean that they are 100% buying it to scam. There are tons of honest people who buy accounts to participate in signature campaigns; you wouldn't care if they got ripped off, but you would if someone else did? I guess that's just your opinion.
sure it does. unless newbie restrictions are put in place simply to encourage account sales.
edit: no, i would not care if some mercenary posters got ripped off. they collectively are making this forum a spammy piece of shit that it has become.
my only regret is they could not lose MORE.
i'd lose no sleep if a guy buying CP or accounts got ripped off. 
