This pay-to-post thing just seems like the polar opposite of what a public forum (in the old sense of the word) is about. Not everything in the world should be monetized just because it can be. The point is paid sig space leads to account dealing which leads us here - more bad than good. This is a private forum, presumably meant for discussing money, not for making it as we talk.
@Quickseller: Not sure why you want to introduce another hot-button issue into a thread that's already pretty polarized. I'm not a gun control crunchy, I've used the example of sleeping with a gun because I had, because I had to. This is not what this thread is about tho.
If people can make a passive income for their regular discussion, that is such a cool thing. It's an incentive to come and chat, why not earn a few bits?
But that's not what's happening. What's happening is people are farming accounts, selling accounts, buying accounts, and spamming & scamming from those accounts.
Not passive, and nothing to do with chatting.
Yeah I was sort of referencing gun control but not in the crontroversial pro vs against manner, but instead in the sense that publicly and openly trading a neutral object that could be used for good of bad is best done in a safe and open place. I compare the account selling issue to selling guns in a gun store, vs in a parking lot. We can't stop account sales from happening in the parking lot, so why not allow people to do it in the shop.
Now imagine that you're running a gun store.
A guy walks into your shop, sets up a table & starts selling child porn. He also regularly shits on your floor, making your shop less attractive to your customers.
Are you obligated to let him keep doing it?
He has an excellent argument for you to let him stay: If you don't let him sell CP in your store, he'll just be forced to sell it in the parking lot, so why kick him out?
