Because you're making people jump through hoops and put their identity on the line just to sign up and post on a forum, a forum where most people value their privacy or wish to remain anon for whatever reasons. Most people tend to think the newb time restrictions and previous newbie jail are bad enough without adding more complications to just signing up in the first place.
Bitcoin is not anonymous. So why is Bitcointalk trying to be anonymous? The admins also never said alts are allowed because of anonymity. The reason given is difficulty in enforcement.
Bitcoin is as anonymous as you want it to be, and difficulty in enforcing them
is one of the reasons but
alts are allowed for whatever reason you want them for and that includes anonymity. Mods/staff/admins have stated multiple times alts are allowed if you don't want certain things being tied to certain identities so it's not just because it's unenforceable.
Unless there has been a dramatic change, Bitcoin protocol is not anonymous. Never has been. Yes, you can hide, but you are not anonymous.
So is it one of the reasons or whatever reasons? As far as I remember, theymos or badbear has always maintained that alts and account sales are allowed because of difficulty in enforcement. Here is a solution that will make it enforceable unless someone is willing to purchase x number of unique IPs tied to one particular account, social account and email and hope they always remember to flush their browser before switching accounts.
Or are you saying Bitcointalk admins decision behind alts and account sales has nothing to do with enforcement? That puts a new spin on everything.
Even then, I remember users could post anonymously on this forum without creating an account, but doing so will not let them accumulate posts, rank and reputation.
As for jumping hoops. I would argue legitimate and honest users are asked to jump through more hoops to navigate through the scammy minefield here.
If you really want to talk about hoops, the six minute posting requirement for newbie accounts is the biggest hoop around.
Yes, so you're proving my point here. Don't add more restrictions, especially pointless unnecesary ones. The time limit goes down after a while anyway but at least newbs make it past the sign up stage which many won't if they see you need to link a social media account to it.
How am I proving your point? I just poked a pretty large hole in it. The biggest restriction is the six minutes barrier between posts. Linking your social media account takes seconds, once.
I don't want to let peepers and other people here (or around the net) to see my private things on social media (even if the most private are not there) or social media companies know what i do here on this forum. I don't mind if
protocol is not completly anonymous but linking also my social media profiles is really giving out to much details of my life for me to bee still confortable enough.