This is a bogus argument; there are tons of people who buy accounts with literally zero merit (Newbies rank) and zero reputation and build them to the highest rank;
First of all why would someone buy a newbie acount when it takes less than 30 minutes to create an account here? I'm sure antone would be willing to do that sounds stupid if you ask me. Most times accounts are bought because of what the buyers stands to gain from it so in the case of a newbie account I don't see what the buyer will benefit from it.
this is the internet, and there are people who prefer to join a forum or social media with accounts that have no connection to their real life details, not because they intend to scam with them, but because they do not trust the internet with their sensitive information. Are you aware that this forum stores the first registrant's IP address? Furthermore, the forum, like any other social media, does not prohibit buying of accounts
Not just the first IP address, It also saves IP for the last 30 days so how then do the buyer who wants to avoid using their IP (as you claimed) plan to avoid that?
https://bitcointalk.org/myips.phpIf we wake up one day to find out that Yahoo62278, LoyceV or Royse777's accounts were bought, are we going to disregard all of their positive contributions and the current people behind these accounts and start tagging them to ruin them just because they were bought? Then something is wrong with our cognitive abilities.
Probably because you're no longer dealing with the original owner which technically means you're no longer dealing with those users you mentioned but with a total stranger who has done nothing or contributed nothing to the forum. And because those account you mentioned are highly respected members of the forum red tagged will be appropriate to warn others the risk of trading with it.