Quote from: tspacepilot on May 08, 2015, 04:48:06 PM

Quote from: shorena on May 07, 2015, 10:29:50 PM

Quote from: Vod on May 06, 2015, 08:57:05 PM

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How is gay trust different than normal trust?
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"Gay originally used to refer to feelings of being "carefree", "happy", or "bright and showy"[...]"

Its not as serious. Trust sold by OP would most likely be gay, because its mainly carefree as nothing was actually risked. I doubt it would be marketed as such to avoid confusion with lesbian trust, which can only be given by accounts under control by the people of Lesbos. As such lesbian trust is rare and highly valued.

As someone on DefaultTrust you should know.

You guys are hillarious. And you are right to ridicule the way Steamingoff uses "gay". Nevertheless, I think going down the rabbit-hole of ridiculing Steamingoff for his blockheaded use of language distracts from the serious point this thread makes: ie, it's okay to purchase a trusted account, and it's okay for trusted members to farm/sell/buy accounts, but somehow it's not okay to purchase trust directly. I really have a hard time seeing how the latter is any more problematic for the trust system than the former.

(Note: I've never bought/sold/farmed accounts or trust, but I have been abused by an account seller who is on default trust (for now). As far as I can tell, this was in part motivated by said account-seller's market interests in driving up the purchase price for farmed accounts. However, I won't be purchasing any accounts to try to undo the wrong which was done to me (this would be submitting to blackmail). But this experience has highlighted for me how much shady-dealings there are around here in terms of the trust system and account purchases/sales. That's one of the reasons why the satire in this thread resonates so strongly with me.)

I think "buying trust" in general is problematic. Yet, account trades are not essentially linked to buying trust. E.g. from someone on Default Trust I would expect that they request to be removed before selling the account. On the other hand it would certainly increase the price and thus there is no incentive to do so.

You also cant just reset the trust rating in case of a sale, because #1 a sale is not necessarily public in every case #2 you would have to limit this on positive ratings to avoid a misuse by scammers. This essentially leads to "ban all account sales", which is heavily discussed currently and IMHO missing the point. If we would ban everything that could potentially lead to a scam, the board would be useless. Registering an account could e.g. lead to a scam, just to name one extreme "solution" that is none.