The forum has never had a policy against account sales. It has always stated sales are discouraged. Account sales were tolerated til 2015/maybe early 2016 from members here.

Then the tags started flying. My question is, these guys most likely know account sales are discouraged against. They also both have seen multiple accounts be tagged for the same activity, yet they kept taking accounts as collateral.

Now they have been caught, but as long as they say they'll stop, it's ok? How is that fair to anyone else who has been tagged for the same practice?

I could be ok with account sales if certain things were done, but I know users who are selling accounts will not comply with what I would want to happen as the value of the account would probably drop.

If users are going to accept accounts as collateral, then make everything public. Take steps to message users and have the positive trust removed from an account they are selling. Tag the account with a neutral tag as well stating in fact the account was bought and sold and the user who now owns the account is not the old owner, and state who owns the account.

Who's gonna do that though? Not a soul because it centralizes the sales and takes away from the anonymity of the situation.

I agree that some users who are selling accounts are probably awesome for the forum but it's a double standard to allow them a pass and not everyone else period. If you started tagging users for account sales once the community decided its not ok, then your opinion should not be any different based on the user really. They know what they are doing is not acceptable to the community and choose to do it anyways