Don't any of you have IRL friends who join forums or teach neighbors or friends about forums?
No. Not a single one, and that's why I find it incredibly hard to believe--especially since this particular forum has had a major problem with account farming, alt accounts abusing campaigns/bounties, and alt accounts contributing to the overall low quality of discussion here. Let Occam's Razor slice your way through to the truth, no?
On the other hand, I have no idea what communities are like in other countries or if the younger generation (which I am assuming you are a part of) would be more likely to be into bitcoin and tell a friend about bitcointalk. Still, even as I wrote that sentence the thought that popped into my head was why someone would tell somebody else about this forum--and it'd probably be "Hey, did you know you can get paid to write posts?".
There's not enough reasonable doubt here IMO, but I'm not tagging any accounts either.
Yes, so the most correct ones are those who are silent and never actually promote anything in the real world.
In 2017 there were many collaborations in working on ICO campaigns. some have alt accounts, including me and I've admitted it here. Some of them are just bounty hunters, others start participating in ICOs, and there are also those who suck up ICOs to collect bitcoins. This is what actually happens and not all connected accounts are account farms. They are really a group and if someone has an alt then usually they only have no more than 2 accounts, that's what I know and I know there are 3 bounty hunter groups which now most of them have sold their accounts, maybe I'm the only one who is active
My mistake was meeting Pytagoraz where at that time I didn't want to teach anyone about bitcoin because it would be dangerous for my account