There is no effective way of stopping only those that sell such cards. This is where the problem lies. Either we ban all gift card sales or we continue with the endless fight (from the staffs perspective).
You should join the "HateLeague" , which at the moment has 3 DT members , me , Lutpin and sho along with james and whywefight[QS is supposed to be in it too, but haven't recieved any confirmation from him, but pretty sure he's in with the "Tag the money launderers"as well]. I for one would be willing to tag them
I guess a coordinated effort from DT members should have an effect. However, the name is awful.
Don't care about the name, don't care if people selling legit cards have a hard time. At least something worthwhile is being done to combat this. Let the folks selling gift cards sell them on another forum is what I would argue. There's waaaaay too much potential for abuse. There are too many carders and crackers running about and they're quite obviously not going to tell the truth about their cards' provenance.
Oh well. Bitcoins too are used for money laundering and is still not considered legal in any country. What's your argument for this? Doesn't it have potential for abuse? Aren't there way too many scammers out here? What about account sales? Aren't people scamming by buying accounts with reputation? Forget about signature campaigns and spammers. There are numerous ways of money laundering on this forum and too much to say about all of them.
The obviously illegal products are already banned on the forum and users who were selling illegal methods/guides were warned about the same. Red trust is the best way to get rid of such sellers.
I don't agree that it will hurt bitcoins as mainly CC's are used for the purchase of these gift cards and not bitcoins. Don't get what's hurting bitcoins in all this.
I think it hurts BTC's reputation because if someone new to bitcoin comes here and sees most goods being sold seem illegal then that will reinforce the stereotype "bitcoin is only for illegal stuff".
Even when I came to this forum, I was asked if my cards are bought via illegal methods and I never knew that people could buy these cards via hacked cards. I never blamed bitcoins for it but rather the users who are buying/selling such gift cards. No currency is bad if it's used for illegal purposes but instead we should only blame the people misusing it. Scammers would scam using any method and not only make use of bitcoins.