Quote from: Lauda on January 14, 2017, 08:56:29 AM

Quote from: jackg on January 14, 2017, 02:04:38 AM

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@Lauda, could you also put some sort of reference link in the trust report just so it can be confirmed that the account was sold (I think trust seems more valid if it has an appropriate link of evidence attached to it - such as the sec-log data for both the change of password and email at the same time).

I'm not going to do that. The password change is already no longer visible here, not that this is relevant to my methods of uncovering account sales.

I only suggested that because I rank everyone on this forum thesame way and use my own decision whether to deal with them. I'll check any feedback and if it is with the relavent links, I will happily accept it and know that it is accurate. If there are no links and is not with much detail then I'll regard it as either spammy/anomalous information and consider it invalid (No matter who it was given by).
Although, if the reference has now gone offline and there are no copies of the seclog then there's no way evidence can be added.

Quote from: neochiny on January 14, 2017, 01:25:14 PM

Quote from: shorena on January 14, 2017, 11:54:02 AM

Quote from: neochiny on January 14, 2017, 02:02:13 AM

Quote from: shorena on January 13, 2017, 10:56:35 AM

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Can you see the future? Besides, isn't spam a moderation issue and unrelated to trust ratings?

An account that's used exclusively for the games and round, with not a single post joining any other discussion?
I don't need to "see the future" to know that.

Besides, I don't consider spam as purely a concern for moderators or even DT. Everyone should, and can help. Either

by reporting it or leaving negative feedback.

The account was just very likely sold, my question is: How do you know the new user will spam?

Besides: if the posts until now have been spam[1], why isnt the user banned already? Moderation is slow, but not 8 months behind slow.

[1] They are what they are for the given threads, you dont post lengthy posts in a prediction thread.

1. Why buy another account? Either for scams or for signature farming. Then, wouldn't handling multiple accounts, whose sole goal are for earning in sig campaigns lead to spam?

Additionally, the 'new user' was likely in too much of hurry to start earning that, right after buying an account grown on games and round, he goes straight for a sig campaign. Expect decent posts? Unlikely.

2. Spam? Or a farmed account? Or a bought account for Sig Spam? Any of which I consider as grounds for a negative feedback.

Buying/Selling: Not moderated: They'll do what they will.
Trust: Not moderated: Same applies.
Feedback: Not moderated: Same applies.

Besides, aren't feedbacks just opinion?

If you trust someone (you add them on your trust network) then their 'opinions' will matter.
If you don't trust them(remove from your trust setting) and whatever 'opinion' they might have wouldn't matter.

Everyone are advised to do this, so the 'trust system' shouldn't be blamed if the users choose 'not' to change their trust settings.

The trust system does seem a little strange but there is not really any way it can be improved that will be especially useful. There are trust/untrusted lists but I'm not sure many people use these here (unless there's a user that is especailly trusted to them - such as a friend maybe or colleague).