I laugh to all those who say banning is not the solution.
Banning is indeed the right solution to prevent scams happening. Take a look at the meta forum and see how many are crying out for unbans. Banning accounts hurt scammers. Don't even think the otherwise.
On the other hand, i also think that everyone should have a common sense in the first place so they won't get scammed so easily. Trust system is there for us to see whos a scammer and whos not, but it's got out of hand now because scammers farming hundreds of accounts and giving each other fake trust reviews.
You can fight back these kind of organized scams just by banning the accounts.
Have you noticed how it is usually mods who lead those saying "banning is not the solution"?
This forum has developed into a place where scammer/farmer/hacker accounts now rule, by clear majority, untroubled by mods/admin. (and DT)
Why is that?
I have shown how mass farmed accounts, and now mass hacked accounts, can easily and accurately be identified. Admin
could do the same thing, much easier than i can, but don't. (i'm deliberately not finding/publishing members with "a few alts" - that is a bit different, not "mass")
The scam situation could be changed overnight if admin
wanted that, without needing members to ban each other, but they don't.
Clearly
someone is making a lot of btc from farming/hacking this forum.
I cannot see why admin would allow such blatant farming/hacking leading to scamming/shilling/sig spamming/selling.... unless they were behind all this, or otherwise profit from it, imo.
(i have had to draw this conclusion based on my 7 months "hobby" publishing 1000 farmed accounts, and now finding 10's of thousands of hacked accounts without admin even bothering to respond on either subject, and with mods telling me to get a new hobby - this was not my thinking when i started researching this, i thought mods/admin would
want to know!)
