18. Having multiple accounts and account sales are allowed,[/b] but account sales are discouraged.[/b]
Is there any kind of reference to support the fact that account sales are discouraged? If so could that quote be referenced? and if not could that statement be removed from this rule?
theymos or BadBear mentioned it in the staff board a while ago. As the list isn't exactly official, they also focus on the general opinion of the forum and staff. The "discouraged" might hint that if you farm accounts with not so great posts, you are at a quite big risk of getting banned as well. In other words, it stays.
What if you farm accounts and spend a lot of time neg-repping other accounts? Is there any conflict-of-interest inherent in pairing those activities? (To be clear, if you neg-rep many accounts, then you drive up the demand for sold accounts without any neg-reps; also you're in-the-know about which accounts are bought (by your customers) and you can avoid neg-repping them as a favor).
It really depends on the neg-repping. If it's spammy feedback, you are in trouble, if it's not, you're not. We can't get into someone's mind to find out why they neg-repped someone. I'm not sure how the forum handles rep from banned users though.
In the community feedback scene, if someone found out, it would be a massive shitstorm and effectively his valuable accounts would get flooded with less than desirable feedback. A lot of what we don't police, we expect the community to pursue if they feel like it's important to them. Hence why I mentioned that selling accounts is discouraged as the community tends to police that and mark said accounts.
EDIT: In other news, I've posted sticky threads in Altcoin Discussion, Announcements (Altcoins), Mining (Altcoins) and Marketplace (Altcoins) linking to this one as after more than a few cases, I can safely say that a lot of members tend to miss this thread in Meta and end up breaking rules on accident.
EDIT 2: Also, changed the question regarding FUD:
Q: Do you moderate/delete (possible) FUD, accusations and untrue information?
A: No. We don't have enough time to check every single piece of information and verify the validity of the sources. Also, just like scams - too much room for bias and abuse.
by adding some info to the end of it:
However, trolling isn't allowed. If a user is habitually posting obviously false nonsense just to stir up trouble, then it's considered trolling, which is prohibited. Such cases should be thoroughly documented in the report though (There are tons of reports that just say "trolling", but moderators don't have time to look through each user's post).
Also added another question after it:
Q: Someone insulted me. Why aren't you deleting his post/thread?
A: Possible (since we don't have the time or resources to check) insults are also allowed as long as they contain any kind of constructive opinion, info or something else substantial and aren't off-topic. For example, posting something like "you are dumb" will be deleted as it contains no meaningful content. However, if the post is somehwere along the lines of "You are dumb. This is wrong because this website/thread/etc. has explained it's not right", it's in most cases accepted.
