Why are forum account allowed sold here? - page 2.

ctubex

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Quote from: tomaso88 on September 25, 2017, 11:34:38 PM

I noticed in the digital goods section you can sell bitcointalk forum accounts https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=234.0
?

Doesn't that just promote scamming, deception and spam on the site?

That's because moderators are corrupt and do nothing when an account his hacked like mine was.
They only point the solution to signed messages increasing this cases of piracy and scamming ?!?!

hilariousetc

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Quote from: tomaso88 on September 25, 2017, 11:34:38 PM

Doesn't that just promote scamming, deception and spam on the site?

In short, yes. The reasoning behind account sales being allowed is that it cannot really be stopped and people will just sell them elsewhere but I'm starting to think we should prohibit their sale here and trash their threads because the majority of people selling them are selling hacked accounts and the rest are likely farming them by shitposting. An even better solution to stop account sales and farming almost 99% would be to remove signatures from ranks/activity. Everyone who joins the forum can only have a basic signature and if you want a bigger Senior or Hero sized one you have to donate to the forum to get one. This will instantly stop account farming and people having dozens to hundreds of accounts and is pretty much the only way I can see to stop the abuse going on here.

nydiacaskey01

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Quote from: tomaso88 on September 25, 2017, 11:34:38 PM

I noticed in the digital goods section you can sell bitcointalk forum accounts https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=234.0
?

Doesn't that just promote scamming, deception and spam on the site?

I guess one of the reason why there are still people out there who wants to buy forum accounts is to join signature campaign and as you know, if you are a Newbie, there's only a few or I think none (at this time) who accepts a Newbie rank to join a campaign. Another reason is if someone wants to promote their business (new site, casino, token) and register in this forum, they will start as a Newbie and there's a time limit on when a Newbie can post after a post has been made, so to skip that, they would rather buy an account and lastly, yes to scam people, unfortunately it happens here. They pretend to be around the forum for quite sometime to give the impression that they can be trusted.

tomaso88

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I noticed in the digital goods section you can sell bitcointalk forum accounts https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=234.0
?

Doesn't that just promote scamming, deception and spam on the site?

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