Quote from: Rudementry on April 29, 2018, 12:42:52 PM

I understand that there is a privileged group of people who can do whatever they want and never be punished. They never apologize to people who were offended or injured by them. But it is very unpleasant and disgusting for me.

None of that is true, however. I got booted off DT a couple months ago when two DT1 members excluded me from their trust lists, and I've seen quite a few DT members get "punished" by being booted off as well--and I've only been a member here since 2015. One would think an old-time member such as yourself, who registered in 2011, would also have seen examples of that.

I have apologized to people when I've left trust erroneously. It just happened yesterday, in fact. There was a member who'd posted in an account sale thread where he made a joke by naming a price and had followed up that post with "just kidding", which I missed. That was my fault for not noticing it, and I apologized. I'm not trying to leave negative trust wrongly.

In your case, it's pretty clear that you're not the original owner of that account, and I've been leaving negs for account buyers and sellers since 2016. People who buy accounts are usually going to use them either to scam or to shitpost in a signature campaign. They're buying a name, a rank, possibly a trust score, and now merits that they didn't earn. It's dishonest and harmful to the forum as a whole. Account sellers are facilitating this, and the whole process encourages account farming which in turn promotes shitposting, since when farmers rank up an account they really don't care about how good their posts are.

It's either that, or you hacked the account. Either way it's untrustworthy, hence your feedback.

No, account sales aren't illegal by bitcointalk "law", but neither is scamming. However, there are quite a few members here who take offense to both of these things and tag members engaged in them accordingly. The community has to police itself. Again, if you've been a member here since 2011 you should know that.