Quote from: asche on April 30, 2019, 09:50:11 PM

If the new owner proves trustworthy too, nothing goes against removing the red tag IMHO.

Do other DTs who leave red trust for account sales agree to this? I've seen accounts with several years old red tags saying they're bought. How long should an account be active to deserve a review?

Quote from: eddie13 on April 30, 2019, 10:12:07 PM

How much safer do you feel now, before and after, all known account sales have been red tagged? How much more do you trust random accounts now then you did before?
I don't think I feel any more or less safe. What positive has really been accomplished by it?

I don't think it matters much. The main thing a red tag accomplishes, is to prevent the buyer from joining a signature campaign and getting paid to spam..

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You really should consider that any account you deal with may be sold and get a signed address

A signed address only proves the account wasn't hacked. It's easy to sell a private key with the account.

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I think another reason account sales were good for the forum was the economy that grew around it. It was a very interesting economy and I'm sure attracted many people. It was cool to be able to create actual value by growing your account. The market cap and volume of accounts was high. Account sales were great for the lending economy which created jobs for lenders. It was more ways for people to make BTC and more general cashflow around the forum.

Interesting approach, I mainly considered account sales to cause spam, not only from the buyer, but also from the account seller who farms tens or hundreds of accounts. And because account sales happen in dark corners, buyers can't pick a high quality account and ignore the farmed ones.

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I liked the wild-west style of the forum back then, closer to anarchy, you had to learn to watch out for yourself and be responsible for your own well being.
The forum was a lot more exciting and interesting back then IMO.

Your account isn't that old, kinda like mine. I never really thought of this forum as a Wild-West, but the way you describe it doesn't sound bad. I've never tagged an account for being bought, and until now I didn't really mind, but you make valid points. Especially the part about destroying part of the crypto economy doesn't look good.

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Quote from: TMAN on May 01, 2019, 04:16:37 PM

you obviously don't trade here, plenty of physical traders here spend 10's of K with each other regularly. shit I've done deals worth $100K plus multiple times without escrow - you trust who you know, hence why buying a rep is such a bad thing

This. I've known many of the physical bitcoin collectors for years. I even trust some of them with my priv keys.

The large majority of sold accounts are "unknown users". I expect most well-known users won't sell their account, and if a well-known forum trader were to do that, it would indeed require red tags because the account has the potential to scam large amounts. But that's not the case for the average "nobody" account that gets sold.