First, thanks a lot to Shorena for arguing in a reasonable tone.
To some of the other things we've heard here:
What evidence do you have that links him to Quickseller exactly (assuming that's who you're referring to)? Quickseller was knowledgeable of the rules here and that guy clearly isn't because a) he doesn't seem to be aware that you only need to make 1 post per fortnight and not spam quickly to make 14, and 2) Quickseller always made decent posts and didn't 'farm' them this way.
I'm not implying that boxlite was correct in linking these particular farmed accounts to quickseller (did he actually make that link? I didn't see it) but I do want to ask what evidence you have that Quickseller "always made decent posts and didn't 'farm' in this way"? How do we know what he did or didn't do? He's been incredibly secretive about which accounts he sells are farmed and which are traded. He says that once someone knows an account is an alt or a farmed account it gets negrepped so he doesn't reveal this info (but he *does* go around negrepping other accounts all the time, even ones he hasn't traded with or had any business with, like mine---I'm convinced this has in part to do with the conflict of interest in inherent in both selling accounts and in being on default trust, but that's another topic). My question to hillarious here is on what evidence do you know what accounts quickseller farmed or how he farmed them?
The reason people can buy/sell/farm accounts is because the forum believes in the right to freedom of speech. The forum wants people to be protected if/when they make an unpopular statement (or in your case to look like an idiot). If the rules regarding multiple accounts were to be removed then you would be breaking the rules by creating accounts in the way that you are (this is of course ignoring the fact that you are breaking the rules by posting for reasons other to appeal your ban after you have been banned multiple times).
Ahh, if I had a bitcoin for everytime quickseller flew off the handle calling someone who disagrees with him an idiot....alas, I'd be richer than Satoshi. There should be a fun game on this forum where if you find quickseller flying off the handle you get 1pt. and when you find him doing forum masterbation ("I am the world's greatest", "No one is more cool than me",...,etc) you get 2 points. If we could start flagging these trolling and nonsense masterbation posts perhaps he'd settle down a bit. I know that the
only reason my account has negative trust at the moment is because I had the audacity to call out quickseller for his temper---telling him to calm down and stop being an ass and he basically flipped out, spent two days trolling me with alts and looking for some kinda dirt. In the end, the only thing he could find were some false accusations from Tradefortress from years ago.
In any case, boxlite seems to not be able to argue without getting too emotional, in that sense he and quickseller are a good match, they can have a "you are an idiot" mudpit fight and we can watch. Thanks again, Sho, for talking reasonably. I'm certainly of the opinion that the buying and selling of accounts is basically a complete inversion of the trust system. As long as people can buy and sell accounts, trust means nothing. As long as there are trust-rangers who are also in the buying and selling of accounts business, the whole thing is obviously a corrupt joke.
There was some nice discussion in another thread recently about possibly changing the text of the trust warning to something less inflammatory and more descriptive, Salty says he's going to bring up the idea with Theymos, we'll see what happens with that.