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Topic: Why are account farmers still left to roam free in the forum? - page 2. (Read 377 times)

legendary
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Farewell LEO: o_e_l_e_o
Selling merit may seem bad but not forced to be prohibited. Only if a merit source found to be involved in selling merit then Theymos will remove him from the list.

Merit system was introduced 5 years ago, it's pointless now to continue talking about it. We accepted all pros and cons.

I know that it is not prohibited but they should be hunted down and negative tagged to stop such activities. I understand that the merit system is already old, I was an active member when it was first introduced and I understand all the pros and cons, but we need to keep filtering such stuff to further clean up the forum.
Feel free. I don't think it will make any change. Theymos himself forbid the community to tag anyone for merit abusing. Maybe you were there when the system was introduce but surely you missed the development or you wouldn't even create the thread. Get yourself upgraded LOL
hero member
Activity: 2366
Merit: 793
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Having multiple accounts is allowed by the forum rules so there is no reason to ban him or trash the account sale thread but looking at his thread it seems he is not really selling anything just trying to lure people who want to buy account and steal their money and obviously no forum escrow is accepting account trade deals so its just only used to show as real trader.
full member
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Merit: 200
As long as people pay for it, there will be a never ending supply of accounts, it was easier to do before the merit.

What I meant was that there should be a way to tackle this.

I wonder who is that escrow member he has and how people believe the escrow manager.

The guy said in one of his comments in that thread that he got connections in the forum. He can probably also use one of the accounts that he has as the escrow, if he got one with positive feedback.

Selling merit may seem bad but not forced to be prohibited. Only if a merit source found to be involved in selling merit then Theymos will remove him from the list.

Merit system was introduced 5 years ago, it's pointless now to continue talking about it. We accepted all pros and cons.

I know that it is not prohibited but they should be hunted down and negative tagged to stop such activities. I understand that the merit system is already old, I was an active member when it was first introduced and I understand all the pros and cons, but we need to keep filtering such stuff to further clean up the forum.

You can only do this to join bounty but unfortunately you can not join any good signature campaign. When you buying account or merit, you're not a good poster (if you're, you don't do this), not be able to write meaningful posts so no campaign manager will accept you in a good signature campaign.

Some managers accept average posters in their signature campaigns, and account buyers only purchase accounts or merits to bypass the rule for getting some merits in the last 120 days which is a requirement for most signature campaigns these days.
hero member
Activity: 1344
Merit: 742
Selling or buying accounts or merit is not prohibited, it is only discouraged by the forum and community.

You can only do this to join bounty but unfortunately you can not join any good signature campaign. When you buying account or merit, you're not a good poster (if you're, you don't do this), not be able to write meaningful posts so no campaign manager will accept you in a good signature campaign.

18. Having multiple accounts and account sales are allowed, but account sales are discouraged.
hero member
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Because they are free to do it, but it doesn't mean decent members and the forum doesn't care.
Later on maybe we will see the seller or the accounts that on sale will be exposed on reputation board as i remember one of the scam buster member did this lol.
hero member
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Account farming is actually frowned at...
Infact, Theymos has made it very possible for the least unimportant OP to have an opportunity to be relevant... YEAH...SO, for that fact, peeps go as far as misusing his simplicity for cowardice or something...
Account farmers have been raging an unending war with the DT squad over the years -- it's not starting today.. that'll only make you realize that alot are in here for the purpose of making some few Bucks every other time, for themselves -- they don't have any positive contributions to the forum neither -- at some point, they become toxic just like this set of dimwittys that we get on a regular...
Edit 1: They usually get reported and tagged... Anyone that's buying farmed account is simply bidding "farewell" to his cash

Sandra 🧑‍🦰
copper member
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With a lot of sales you can generally tell when an account has changed hands anyway which is probably why the forum doesn't care about it.

I think account farmers are a lot less likely now too and people sell personal accounts which means you probably get a lot of their history (good and bad) too so that'll make it even harder for potential buyers to impersonate people. The account farmers being gone now (particularly in the main boards) is generally due to people not meriting any sub par posts and mods getting a bit more active too (imo they seem to be responding to more requests).
legendary
Activity: 2800
Merit: 2736
Farewell LEO: o_e_l_e_o
After the merit system, it seemed like the things are getting normal, spam and spammers getting less than before and everything is falling in place. But, what I see in Digital goods section is not really pleasing. Account farmers are still openly selling merits and accounts, and for some reason, their threads are not locked/closed.
Why? What's the essence of the merit system if we still allow such things in the forum?
There are many points to be taken from your questions:

Selling merit may seem bad but not forced to be prohibited. Only if a merit source found to be involved in selling merit then Theymos will remove him from the list.

Account buy sell is discouraged, forum members do not like it so they tag accounts.

Threads are not locked/closed because there are no such rules that enforce to lock a thread by mod. This forum is a prime example of freedom of speech and open for you to do anything.

If you find anyone spamming, report it to moderator.

Merit system was introduced 5 years ago, it's pointless now to continue talking about it. We accepted all pros and cons.
copper member
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What a way of doing business, offering escrow too. I wonder who is that escrow member he has and how people believe the escrow manager.
No problem on the escrow part, usually DT1-DT2 members trustworthy enough to hold the funds, whether they have a moral code or not, is their busuness, but you could point them out if you find them with evidence, just to let the communiy know who they are, because lack of morality leads to corruption if left alone and not dealt with properly, so for the sake of future generations of this forum report them by openning reputation topic on them, some one with no moral code to follow and value, will one day steal millions if they get the chance.
full member
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What a way of doing business, offering escrow too. I wonder who is that escrow member he has and how people believe the escrow manager. Just checked out the thread, that guy is doing business very fine.

I saw Legendary account getting banned for copy pasting twitter post on this forum but this guy is doing the most restricted activity in this forum and is still alive from last year.
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As long as people pay for it, there will be a never ending supply of accounts, it was easier to do before the merit.
That's it, now is just harder with the possibility of monopoly. Forum doesn't ban account sales just like they don't ban *profanity.

*= I should know. 🙂
full member
Activity: 1035
Merit: 200
After the merit system, it seemed like the things are getting normal, spam and spammers getting less than before and everything is falling in place. But, what I see in Digital goods section is not really pleasing. Account farmers are still openly selling merits and accounts, and for some reason, their threads are not locked/closed.
Why? What's the essence of the merit system if we still allow such things in the forum?

Attaching one thread for reference:



Thread link: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bitcointalk-accounts-and-merits-for-sale-escrow-available-5407070
OP: https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/sirandre-3492180
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