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Before the implementation of merit system there were many who were into this account selling business even the legendary rank and you could easily join the campaigns as post could be reported to moderators but controlling spam at this level was not so effective.But after merit system we have seen less of these account selling as if you don't have knowledge then it's no fun of having account on forum.But yes they should be immediately tagged so that others take it as warning not to do any scam selling although it's allowed but it's still discouraged.
OK, so I'm very late to reply, but I just saw this thread getting bumped. As to what you wrote above: I'm well aware of how chaotic a place this used to be prior to the merit system. I was one of the DT members actively tagging anyone who even expressed interest in buying or selling bitcointalk accounts--you can check my sent feedback before 2018 and see for yourself.
I haven't checked the services section in a long time, and I don't have a sense of how many sig campaigns are running and how much they're paying for the different ranks. But somehow I was under the impression that they're not as profitable as they once were, even if you've got a Legendary account.
Lol, you sound like you are advising people to actually patronize this account seller. The advice should rather be that people should not buy or sell accounts, they should learn about Bitcoin and the forum and rank up all by themselves.
That very much reminds me of the argument we used to have in Meta about whether established escrows should escrow account sales. Remember any of that?
