Quote from: Quickseller on December 04, 2015, 02:45:08 PM

Quote from: XinXan on December 04, 2015, 11:55:30 AM

Quote from: Quickseller on December 04, 2015, 08:22:08 AM

Quote from: XinXan on December 04, 2015, 08:10:43 AM

Quote from: Quickseller on December 03, 2015, 11:23:45 PM

A common theme among the people who are voicing their opinion against the sale of forum accounts is that the sale of accounts leads to scams. I would however question that conclusion and ask how many scams (both as a percentage of account sales and as a percentage of forum scams) are from sold accounts and how many of those were made possible (or at least aided) by the fact that it was a sold account. I would believe for that number to actually be quite low and in the grand scheme of things, allowing the sale of accounts probably actually decreases overall scamming activity because it gives people who are desperate for money one additional way to get money that does not involve stealing from others.

Of course you are going to defend it but you were selling DT accounts too as far as I know, would you say those accounts can't be used to scam? How do you know? A lot of proven scammers just buy another account to keep scamming, is not like people who are desperate for money would buy accounts to scam.

I did not say that accounts can't be used to scam, I said that accounts (DT accounts included) generally are not used to scam.

Like I said, give examples of the kinds of scams that you claim are the result of sold accounts, otherwise you are just making things up

So why would anyone buy a DT member account if it's not to scam? And don't tell me it's to do business because everyone started with 0 trust accounts and they have been doing business just fine.

Prestige, to get a jump start with their business. Also for all intensive purposes, this account did not start as a zero trust account despite it being a brand new account and not being purchased.

If you are unable to give solid evidence to backup your statements, then why don't you just admit that you are just making up your argument?

You could apply the same criticism to your statements QS.
You may be able to say that your opinion is based on your experience of selling accounts and that, as far as you are aware, few of them have been used to scam with so far, but that's all.
One recent example I can immediately think of was Rikkie and Cloudthink https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=168298 where a senior account was purchased to lend respectability to a scam. I would think there are others.

My personal opinion is that the old chestnut "If a senior member is broke and needs money, he can sell his account instead of turning scammer, so selling accounts is good" has no basis in fact whatsoever..