Davis Lad From Poland has a question about the forum.

[Davis Lad]

Meself Davis Lad I'am 46 from Poland.Hippity Hoo Fellas!

Meself a Bitcoin Supporter since 2013.I'am surfing our beloved forum since ages,due ta communication problemo I convinced meself from making an account.Finally,I have learned enough English ta bang-bang arguments.

Me Question : Why obvious scam threads are not deleted by our beloved mods while a strict action is taken against illegal digital account sellers ?  
Logic : It is fine ta work scams but not allowed ta sell cracked digital goods ? Some bloke please explain me the irony.

Fank You fer responses.

--Davis The Lad,   from Poland!

[SaltySpitoon]

There are a few reasons why scams are not moderated. The first being, what is and isn't a scam is up to personal interpretation. With the exception of the very obvious cases, what I might consider a scam could be different from what another moderator considers a scam. When regulating business, you need to have a unified definition of what is and isn't allowed, and thats not something we could do. There is also a potential for abuse. Moderators aren't given many privileges that they can abuse. If a rogue moderator went bad, they could probably delete some posts and annoy someone, but an Admin would see it very quickly, restore the posts, and remove the moderator. We can't see any of your personal info, and have no access to anything that could be of any liability to our users.

So why aren't those obvious no brainer scams taken care of? Because if we remove the obvious ones, then people will complain when we don't catch the non obvious ones. By not moderating scams, people are told to look out for themselves and not rely on moderators to keep their BTC safe. The really obvious scams are actually pretty useful in training people what to look for in harder to detect scams as well, so lets thank the terrible scammers! If we were to remove a scammer's thread, we would just be hiding the evidence they left themselves.

Illegal goods are not allowed here. Obviously, members here are from all over the world, so what is and isn't illegal depends on their country of residence. You are allowed to trade goods that are legal in your country with members who's countries have similar rules, with a few minor exceptions. We don't allow drug sales, pornography of minors, or things that are illegal world wide, like hacked/stolen accounts. We have had cases where someone wanted to sell drugs in a country that allowed it, and nude photos that were legal in their country of origin, but we had to say no to those because there is way too much room for problems there.

Moderators do not care about individual company's Terms Of Service. For example, if you play some online MMORPG and they say you can't sell items from the game for real money, we have no obligation to uphold their TOS. Likewise, selling accounts and other things that the service provider frowns upon is allowed here. That is entirely on you, if you get banned or whatever thats on the users breaking the TOS.