Quote from: erikalui on April 26, 2015, 08:24:06 PM

Quote from: Quickseller on April 26, 2015, 08:09:24 PM

Yes. This is true even if account sales were somehow 100% eradicated as you would still have the possibility of hacked accounts. A signed message is also necessary to prove the terms of a trade with someone to the community in the event of a dispute. (PM's can also be used however it is more difficult and slower to prove content contained in a PM.

But a person would not NORMALLY go about asking the person to prove he owns the account while having an exchange/trade. Nobody till date has asked me for the same nor have I seen in other sections of this forum that anyone asks for a signed message openly while trading with them.

People should ask for a signed message when trading with someone and the trade would involve them taking any kind of risk. If there is no risk on a trader's part, then there is no reason to ask for a signed message - for example if you are selling me 1 BTC for 200 LTC and our agreement is that I will send you 200 LTC after I receive 1 BTC from you then I have no reason to ask you for a signed message because I am taking no risk.

It is a good practice to always provide a signed message whenever trading with someone, especially when giving an address to send to as when a dispute arrises you can simply ask your trading partner to provide the signed message you provided and the blockchain should provide the rest of the evidence.

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Hacking happens now as well and there would be such a possibility whether or not the rules are implemented.

Correct. This is why you should always ask for a signed message when taking risk on a trade.

Quote from: TerminatorXL on April 26, 2015, 08:25:18 PM

Quote from: Quickseller on April 26, 2015, 08:09:24 PM

[...]When arguing a stance on something it is advantageous to make multiple points to back yourself up. That way if/when one of your points are shot down (like all of your points have been so far) then you still have something to back up your position. There are two (primary) points to why there should not be a rule against trading accounts [...]

It's called "arguing in the alternative," and it's a complicated thing best left to grownups. What me and Salty are currently in the processes of is establishing where he stands on account dealing.

If he is happy with accounts being bought and sold, discussing the feasibility of banning the practice is a waste of time, because he doesn't want it stopped.
What's the point of discussing how to stop murder if murder is desirable?
Like that, see?

No it would not be a waste of time. If/when you can make a strong argument that account trading is bad (you have not presented such an argument), then SS would have a leg to stand on to back his position.

Does the trust list on your "main" account look something like this:

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