We shoudn't consider a Legendary (or a DT1/DT2) user to be dead from the COVID-19 if they fall silent. There could be many underlying reasons and their privacy shouldn't be played with one way or another. If a DT1 user wants to leave the forum forever without a good-bye, it's their choice.
If a DT1 member of the forum died and a hacker took control over their account, I'd wish best of luck to the new user with using the exact same words and post structure the member had before. It's usually obvious when a new person takes over an account: take some of the threads/replies post his gap history and take some of the threads/replies pre-gap history and if there's a noticeable difference, there you go. You don't change your posting structure and wording in months.
As far as I know, the post history gaps are usually found by other members of the forum very easily so there's no need to create some kind of "deathlist" to find whether an user has died from COVID-19 or has been hacked after their death. That is usually noticeable. Moreover, we can assume the hacker will most likely reset the password - that's another little red flag. Connect all the dots and it's easy to find whether an user has been hacked or not. On the other hand though, I guess most DT1 users have a pretty strong password on the forum. Like come on - we're cryptocurrency users, we are interested in securing our wallets so we should be interested in securing our BTCTalk accounts too, right?
If a DT1 member of the forum died and a hacker took control over their account, I'd wish best of luck to the new user with using the exact same words and post structure the member had before. It's usually obvious when a new person takes over an account: take some of the threads/replies post his gap history and take some of the threads/replies pre-gap history and if there's a noticeable difference, there you go. You don't change your posting structure and wording in months.
As far as I know, the post history gaps are usually found by other members of the forum very easily so there's no need to create some kind of "deathlist" to find whether an user has died from COVID-19 or has been hacked after their death. That is usually noticeable. Moreover, we can assume the hacker will most likely reset the password - that's another little red flag. Connect all the dots and it's easy to find whether an user has been hacked or not. On the other hand though, I guess most DT1 users have a pretty strong password on the forum. Like come on - we're cryptocurrency users, we are interested in securing our wallets so we should be interested in securing our BTCTalk accounts too, right?