First, thanks a lot to Shorena for arguing in a reasonable tone.
To some of the other things we've heard here:
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?
To some of the other things we've heard here:
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?
Because I am Quickseller
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Lots of people are secretive with their alts but I figure them out occasionally in various ways. He also told me a few of them when I asked. No need to expose them if they're not doing anything wrong. Accounts don't really get neg-repped anymore either and haven't for some time (or only trolls who aren't on the default neg-rep them (usually incorrectly half of the time)). And if he was making shit-posts he would have had all his accounts banned and that was something he was very conscious of.
So, I guess you know how he's farming some of his accounts because of your "various ways" or because he told you. But that doesn't really say anything about the ones you don't know about. That is, just because he's somehow farming some accounts in a "non-shit-post way" doesn't really say anything about how many accounts he actually farms and what he does with those. Right?
Meanwhile, lots of crazy bluster and mudslinging between ebzec and blazr seem to have totally derailed this thread. I guess there's been some intersting reading about browser security, though.