Quote from: TrustedTrader on December 22, 2016, 11:03:51 AM

Till yesterday I knew that buying & selling accounts on BitcoinTalk is allowed. But, I am stunned to see that DT member & Staff Lauda has marked me -ve and stated...

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Account sales encourage different types of shady behavior (scams, spam, account farming, et al.).

The reference he has made is my sell thread in Auction - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1724202.0.

There are plenty of BitcoinTalk account sell is still present in Auction & Digital Goods...

i. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1723941.0

ii. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1722437.0

iii. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1723774.0

iv. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1706139.0

v. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1719976.0

vi. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1724903.0

vii. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1692480.0

None of these users are marked Red! I dont understand what to make out of this action by Lauda.

Requesting DT members to take a clear stance. If account trading is allowed, it should be allowed for all. Else it should be allowed for none. Why this selective judgement?

In case, the DT members conclude that it is not allowed, I'm hereby requesting Lauda to remove my Red. In that case, I wont be involved in account trading on BitcoinTalk anymore...

That is why all those OPs are by throw away accounts..
I'm sure if you do some looking you will find threads with very trusted OPs selling accounts, and even DT members selling accounts themselves..

Tagging accounts red for participating in legit account sales is pretty much just making a whole economy riskier to scams and fraud because you can't deal with trusted people and at the same time hampering the legit lending economy forcing trusted lenders to go underground to complete their business..

This is a classic example of liberals enforcing regulation in the name of perceived public security that in all actuality provides none and does nothing but hamper economies through increased economic friction..

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

IMO it's too bad that DT is not democratically elected based on actual policy..