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I don't agree with this opinion.
Account sales won't be done publicly. Regardless of whether they receive a negative trust rating or not.
The reason to buy accounts is to cheat on bounties, promoting scam and creating a wrong illusion of 'trustworthiness'.
Those people can't allow to have a 'Sold account' tag to be seen on their profile.
So, while very few people would actually do it publicly, exactly those are the people who do not indent to cheat / scam.
And exactly only them get punished.
So.. either tag everyone, or no one.
Tagging no one is obviously not an option tho..
[...] Because he said that posting on this forum requires a ranking member to be trusted. [...]
Exactly this is the problem.
Instead of getting trusted on this forum, you tried to deceive others into believing you are a trustworthy user..
If a trusted member 'is needed', then you - as a newbie - obviously were the wrong person. So why trying to cheat and buy an account to create the illusion to be trusted while you are obviously not ?
IMO the tag is absolutely justified.
The fact, that he admitted the reason for buying an account was to deceive others into believing he is trustworthy, makes it 100% justified.