Quote from: The Pharmacist on October 18, 2018, 12:28:50 PM

Quote from: xtraelv on October 18, 2018, 12:31:16 AM

It is not good whenever a DT loses their status. It means some known scammers come without a warning label.

No, it's not, and this is a good example of what happens when a DT member who had left many negs gets booted off DT. I'm sure those accounts are being advertised as having neutral feedback, which is true, but they'll still have Lauda's feedback.

The good thing is that these illiterate shitbags who buy older (and no doubt expensive) accounts just to shitpost with will probably end up getting banned for plagiarism. This guy canej had an account from 2014, but I can only view posts going back to August of this year, which means he probably bought or hacked the account and just started bounty spamming recently.

As I said in another thread, as soon as Lauda was removed from DT I started getting requests to remove feedback I'd left, and when I checked their profiles they were all members who'd also been tagged by Lauda. I do believe in second chances, but none of the members who'd contacted me had shown any evidence of trustworthiness since I negged them--and I know the danger of some spamming scammer suddenly having neutral trust.

Quote from: mu_enrico on October 18, 2018, 03:01:13 AM

The majority of those accounts will be retagged by other DT members, and these buyers will find they pretty much burn their money.

I'm hoping that's the case. I know those DT members were working on re-tagging all the accounts, but I don't know how far they got. If they finished, then the accounts for sale that OP mentioned must not be Lauda-tagged ones.

In any case, I have faith that buyers will screw up somehow and get banned. Meta is starting to fill up again with ban appeal threads by obnoxious, lying idiots who can barely spit out the question of why did they get banned. No doubt at least some of those are from jagoffs who bought the account that was banned.

Anyhow, who would tag those account buyers if Lauda is already not a DT anymore? For me, it is not a bad idea to buy accounts which was abandoned long before the merit system is implemented. Maybe the original owner of that account is not active anymore in this forum and decided to sell his account for that reason.