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I'll be collecting results of this poll in 3 more days.
To null the "it can't be enforced with 100% efficiency" argument, consider starting a poll about threads advertising buying and selling of accounts. It is possible to ban such threads, and ban users starting them.
Arguing that "it is better to allow selling accounts because when done in the open, people will know that it is happening" fails on a couple of levels.
First, most users don't know that this is happening. The TOS a user signs (not that anyone reads them) don't have a caplock clause "OH, AND BTW, ACCOUNTS ARE BOUGHT AND SOLD HERE, SO AN ESTABLISHED USER IS MOST LIKELY A SOCK ACCOUNT. Tnx."
Second, most laws are not enforced with total efficiency. Knowing that some murderers will go unpunished shouldn't be taken as a cue for legalizing murder.
Murders can't turn on Tor and 15 proxies in 30 seconds and become completely undetectable. Its openly allowed, because there is a very real possibility that 95+% of it couldn't be stopped. Sure we might catch the occasional moron who posts out in the open, but there would be plenty of people using bitmessage and tormail that could make good money off of bootlegged accounts. As it is now, hopefully people don't see 2 year old accounts as any more trustworthy than new members. If account selling was "banned" then people would start to trust that these old accounts are the original owners, and they should be trusted due to their time commitment. When in reality, they probably just bought the account for $20 on ebay, to pull a scam.
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