Quote from: bob123 on July 15, 2019, 08:08:24 AM

Quote from: philipma1957 on July 13, 2019, 02:52:41 PM

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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..

Quote from: crypto|george on July 13, 2019, 01:11:24 PM

[...] 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.

Then ban all account sales and ban anyone that buys or sells accounts.

Which also works for me.

What does not work for me is allowing sales and then tagging the buyer and seller with negative trust.

Dont you see that a buyer could have a legit lawsuit?

He could force kyc on the website. Saying that bitcointalk is practicing deception by allowing the sale of accounts and then allowing tagging.

How many people have been tagged more then 100 means a class action lawsuit can be done.

You understand my thought is to protect bitcointalk. I feel this policy of allowing sales and allowing tagging of a sale could create a legal issue for the website and for the taggers .

Edit my solution is more legal for bitcointalk. 1) allow a sale mark it sold. Hidden sales get a ban.

My second solution is also more legal for bitcointalk.

2) dont allow sales ban is punishment

My opinion is the current solution creates a liability for bitcointalk and for anyone that tags for account purchases.

3) allow a sale and allow a tag (edit ~~a ban~~ . not so smart a rule
Note my opinion is meaningless as I am not an official legal expert.