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I noticed in the digital goods section you can sell bitcointalk forum accounts https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=234.0
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Doesn't that just promote scamming, deception and spam on the site?

That's because moderators are corrupt and do nothing when an account his hacked like mine was.
They only point the solution to signed messages increasing this cases of piracy and scamming ?!?!

Because that is the only verifiable proof that you actually own the account.

I dare you to name 1 other thing / method that could 100% garantuee the ownership of your account, for every user on this site.. There simply isn't.

Moderators and DT2/DT1 do actually tag alot of people who sell accounts, but deleting all those threads wouldn't make a difference.

They would simply sell them on another site, as for example hackforums.net, where people might actually think it is allowed / not frowned upon to buy them, ( because sellers usually don't declare that),

while on this one, it seems pretty obvious that it is highly frowned upon (sellers are neg repped etc).

It doesn't matter if they can sell accounts somewhere else, a rule should be made for this forum. That's a lousy and illogical excuse IMO. I give negs freely to account dealers, because I'm convinced that such behavior facilitates all sorts of shady things, and I've seen it time and time again. I also think buying an account is a very lazy way to rank up and helps shitposters to shitpost and abuse signature campaigns.

Why is this allowed here? Because theymos doesn't give a shit as long as the site gets more traffic and he can earn more money. Those forum donations are a sick joke.

So your solution is to cure the symptoms of the account farming?

I do agree that this is a big problem that needs to be dealt with, but by simple banning threads of sellers, you're not going to do much, if anything at all if you look at the bigger picture. They will just continue selling them on another modem, as i previously stated.

From an ethical point of view it would probably be correct, but it would only create more misinformation and "chaos" about the selling/buying account rules, and enforcing them.

(You ban bought accounts?)

A smarter thing would be to somehow make account farming / hacking less rewarding, because, lets face it, you're never going to get rid of the people dealing the accounts aslong as it nets them these amounts of money.