Account selling undermines our Merit system as well because Account selling is similar to buying Merit. Buying Merit is not allowed, too.
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This is the strongest argument I have ever seen on BTT in favour of tagging sold accounts.
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; 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
The DT system is only for scammers and high risk trade zones; tagging someone with zero scam history, who bought an account to participate in discussion and forum activities is clearly an abuse of the system.
If 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.
Op you should have added a poll
I decided to quote the whole of your post so that anyone can read and understand how unconnected your post is to what you were replying.
If you scroll up, you will discover that I cropped 1miau post to just one line and also replied with just a one line post.
You trying to prove that the statement that account sells is tantamount to merit buying is bogus, you even ended up commiting the blunder of poor knowledge of what is being discussed which could be termed off topic.
See the highlights of what you said and try prove them to me;
- 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;
- 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
- If 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.
1. Explain why someone would buy a newbie account with zero merits when they can easily create an anonymous account?
2. The forum has provisions for use of VPN or Tor to hide your proxy address and what is needed here is your username and not real name. There's an option to hide email. So?
3. How will you find out that yahoo62278, LoyceV or Royse777 accounts have changed hands when sellers don't announce anywhere about their accounts changing hands.
Apart from these prominent accounts you mentioned, there are many legendary accounts you probably have not seen since you joined forum but they exist and use the forum almost on daily bases.