To truly discourage unlawful bitcointalk sales of account

[Josefjix]

This is still bad idea because, how does the admin judge a potential scammer from a legit buyer? Even if it is the admin that would be the one selling the account it doesn't stop the approaches you're trying to terminate. The best solution is to lessen the required merits to rank up to lower numbers  as everyone is hoping to get high ranking accounts. But in a way the harder is to rank up the more sacred the upper levels feel.
It is best been as it is for now, the whole Idea behind account marketing should even be discouraged not even supported for an admin to act as a merchant, it means the forum admin can grow handful of accounts to desired ranks and lay them off on a yearly or monthly basis depending on their availability and demands.

[mediaBuzz]

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