Quote from: greyhawk on June 09, 2016, 12:25:42 PM

Quote from: Lauda on June 09, 2016, 11:10:55 AM

There is a huge difference between selling your personal Facebook account and farming up likes and whatnot (e.g. accounts with a few thousand "friends") and selling pages. I was referring to the first one. Do you just go out there and sell your personal FB account when you need cash? You don't.

Perhaps Facebook isn't the best example, because FB has a real name policy and also if you sold your personal FB account then your friends would obviously know it was sold and the account would not be worth much, also if it was reported there is a high chance of the account being banned and you may not want your real name associated with the account after it was sold. But people sell their personal accounts on social media websites where they primarily interact with people they don't know in real life, Twitter is a prime example.

Facebook accepts "Baggins" as a last name and even doesn't allow some real names (unless they verify their names iirc). Cheesy

Anyway guess why that policy is there?

The suggestion is whether bitcointalk should take a similar policy to discourage all these farming and selling. (different policy because bct is not a RL social media website rather a bitcoin forum).

I don't see why Facebook is not a good comparison in this respect. Facebook may take action against buying/selling, proposing that bitcointalk can consider the same.

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Do I have an FB account?
Yes.
Do I plan to sell my FB account?
No.
Have I bought my FB account?
No.
Have I bought any FB account?
No.

Same as what we expect an ideal bitcointalk member to answer.

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Do I have an bct account?
Yes.
Do I plan to sell my bct account?
No.
Have I bought my bct account?
No.
Have I bought any bct account?
No.