Having secondary/multiple accounts purpose is..?

[Stedsm]

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What is the purpose of having multiple accounts (alt/alts) on this forum?

People are of two types, ones who use it and others who abuse it.

Users are those who use alts to post their tweets/fb post links/reports and keep their main account clean and free from all this stuff. These people either openly declare or keep it hidden under the hoods that they are using an alt, but they never commit any shady activity from such account(s) and never ask for any loans, never scam and never spam.

Abusers are those who don't give a fuck to rules of the forum and just abuse bounties, signature campaigns and exploit any earning opportunities available here, and spam the shit out of their tens of hundreds of accounts created with the sole purpose of the same. And such accounts also get nuked very quick because we have a team of enthusiastic spam-cum-scambusters who don't let these abusers leave empty handed from the forum and gift them a permaban forever.

[~KiD~]

Thanks for the kind answers guys, I didn't expected this amount of replies.
Now this makes sense (kind of..) of having more accounts, if you use the forum for more than a talk (talk politics, sell goods, participate in multiple campaigns, use of mobile bitcointalk, etc).
If I had more sMerits I would have merited all, but since I had only had one I merited the 1st one who replied, who happened to have the less merits, so I think he needed it the most.
Thanks again!

[Kuffy]

Well now you have got a couple of alt Merits ( gives you another sMerit), so you can find another guy to reward. It's probably best to find someone in another topic though.

[HomeOfCoins]

One of the most important reason why people have multiple account is the fear of bring banned from the forum
Secondary, I learnt that some hunters in the forum focused  focus their main accounts in helping and contributeing
To the growth of the forum. This can be trance down to say that most most people having multiple account is
1. Bounty Huntering Purposes
2. For Scamming purposes
3. For Forum Growth
4. For Business purposes ( i.e Sell them off to make money )
5. Fear of being Banned while participating in Campaign

[~KiD~]

One of the most important reason why people have multiple account is the fear of bring banned from the forum
Secondary, I learnt that some hunters in the forum focused  focus their main accounts in helping and contributeing
To the growth of the forum. This can be trance down to say that most most people having multiple account is
1. Bounty Huntering Purposes
2. For Scamming purposes
3. For Forum Growth
4. For Business purposes ( i.e Sell them off to make money )
5. Fear of being Banned while participating in Campaign

1. Bounty Huntering Purposes
This I got it. Is understandable, if you want to join more bounty providers.

2. For Scamming purposes
I see. I agree that not everyone on the planet is a good person.

3. For Forum Growth
Well personally I think the forum is big enough, it doesn't need alts to grow activity, not anymore.

4. For Business purposes ( i.e Sell them off to make money )
Got it. I did not think of this purpose.

5. Fear of being Banned while participating in Campaign
I think if will get ban on one account, you will get on the second one too because you will do the same mistake, sooner or later.

[mocacinno]

There are several acceptable reasons i can think off, many of which have already been discussed, but some of the reasons i can think off have not yet been brought up (at least, i quickly scanned the thread, i did not read every single reply in detail):

• Anonimity: i think it's perfectly fine to have an account that's completely anonymous, and a second account you use to do business, participate in raffles, attach to domain names,...)
• Security: an account with a weak password for public pc's, cellphones, travel Wifi's,... and a main account with a strong password
• Brand recognition: i have a client with multiple accounts, one for each big project he starts... Once again, perfectly fine by me
• Name reservation: i think it would be perfectly fine to reserve your name (your real name or business name), even if you don't use the account... Just to avoid scammers to use your name to scam others
• Unwanted, but legal behaviour: there are some kinds of behaviour that aren't really likeable, like cursing... Maybe you feel like ridiculing somebody but don't want other's to shun you, so you use an alt account... It's a bit sketchy, but i'd still call this borderline acceptable

Offcourse, alt accounts for scamming, spamming, self bumping, cheating,... should be kicked off the forum. However, there are plenty of good reasons to have an alt imho

[yazher]

What is the purpose of having multiple accounts (alt/alts) on this forum?

Some users are creating a mobile version of their account or their username plus (away) to give people ideas that they are not home or to be precise, they cannot use their PC because they are off work somewhere. some users create an alt account to make some posts about bounty topic and when they often make some new bounty topic, some of them create a new account.

[~KiD~]

• Name reservation: i think it would be perfectly fine to reserve your name (your real name or business name), even if you don't use the account... Just to avoid scammers to use your name to scam others

This is a good point for having a second account in here. Understandable.

[Kuffy]

Name reservation: i think it would be perfectly fine to reserve your name (your real name or business name), even if you don't use the account... Just to avoid scammers to use your name to scam others

That is why I registered Kuffy, but then I sediced that I might as well use it. It gives me a second signature for use with one of my pricate sites.