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With alt accounts essentially comes the trade with accounts. IMHO you cant have one without the other. If I am allowed to have a second account why should I not be allowed to use the 17th account of someone else. An account they no longer need or want. Since building an account takes time its only natural that I pay a certain amount for the time someone else invested in the account.
"With alt accounts essentially comes the trade with accounts."? That's like saying "A right to shoot you in the face essentially comes with the right to own a gun." What kind of fresh idiocy is that?
Yeah, the "muh free speeches" argument Quickseller trotted out may justify having multiple accounts, but doesn't justify buying a farmed account, with all the trust & clout that goes with it.
Duh.
The reason might be as simple as Im spoiled and I dont want to be hindered by the limitations of a new account.
There are reason limitations are put on brand new accounts. Those reasons have nothing to do with being able to afford a fraction of a coin for an aged one. If you think Satoshi started this forum so that you can make money buying & selling accounts & spamming here, you're mistaken.
All stuff that's obvious to stray dogs & slow children, why must it be explained again and again here?
How do you suggest to solve this problem in a way that is decreasing the chance of successful scams? By an admin saying in some thread that its bad?
Banning the sale of Bitcointalk accounts
right fucking here, on Bitcointalk, by trusted members & forum staffers who love them might make the practice less common. Again, why does such obvious stuff need to even be said?
At least we agree that the practice is disgusting (paraphrasing theymos), I'm glad we're finally discussing the mechanics for stomping it out.