Alts vs farm.

[Casdinyard]

For some days or weeks now, there's a thread in reputation board - PytagoraZ & komisariatku are alts. I followed up the thread to the extent that I believed that PytagoraZ is a different person from Komisariatku, but I didn't air my opinion. But on visiting the thread again, I discovered that everything was bursted.

What prompted this thread is this;

Just for a quick recap, if all the names of the associated accounts are compiled then this is what the complete list should appear as:

akbarharyadi8
asrinur
coklat gurih
cyberdg
Hagz
havi agasa
komisariatku
Maftukh
nyupangcoin
pentol86
PytagoraZ
razor92
tu_kang

Personally, I would not limit the total to the names mentioned above because once the can of worms is opened, it usually leads to surprises.

• It is allowed to own alts.
• How many alts will one own and it will become a farm?
• Is farm accounts without merit sharing, cheating campaigns or contests allowed?

I will need some experience users to give an answer.
  

It's generally frowned upon if you have Alt accounts (unless you explicitly state that you do have an alt account like LoyceV does) but the forum doesn't impose any form of restrictions towards having multiple accounts here, as long as it's used within the confines of the forum rules and healthily. Farm accounts which are alternate accounts that people use to farm engagement or in the forum's case, merits and post counts, are illegal and could be a bannable offense if I'm not mistaken, especially if you're using these farm accounts to cycle Smerits to each other and climb the ranks artificially.

There's no particular amount of accounts that will determine whether you're a farmer or not, but in my opinion, the moment you send merits towards yourself from an alt account, even if it's just a single merit, you're already considered a farmer and if reported, could face getting banned from the forum. And yes, even if you don't use it to share merit, or to cheat on campaigns by joining more of your accounts in one go, long as you're considered a farmer here there's no way for you to regain the trust and cred you will lose in the forum.

[lovesmayfamilis]

There's no particular amount of accounts that will determine whether you're a farmer or not, but in my opinion, the moment you send merits towards yourself from an alt account, even if it's just a single merit, you're already considered a farmer and if reported, could face getting banned from the forum.

You overstate. For one given merit, there will be no punishment, except that you will seem pathetic in front of the community. This is what people look like who cannot receive merit on their own on all their accounts, but are engaged in transferring merits purchased or obtained with such difficulty. Otherwise, why would you throw away something that you can get for nothing?
Owning multiple accounts, if we remove the normal reason of convenience for different devices, will also be an indicator of the greed of people who cannot be satisfied with bonuses from one account. But often we see that greed makes a person even poorer; it destroys the personality, making him angry and hostile.

[Casdinyard]

There's no particular amount of accounts that will determine whether you're a farmer or not, but in my opinion, the moment you send merits towards yourself from an alt account, even if it's just a single merit, you're already considered a farmer and if reported, could face getting banned from the forum.

You overstate. For one given merit, there will be no punishment, except that you will seem pathetic in front of the community. This is what people look like who cannot receive merit on their own on all their accounts, but are engaged in transferring merits purchased or obtained with such difficulty. Otherwise, why would you throw away something that you can get for nothing?
Owning multiple accounts, if we remove the normal reason of convenience for different devices, will also be an indicator of the greed of people who cannot be satisfied with bonuses from one account. But often we see that greed makes a person even poorer; it destroys the personality, making him angry and hostile.

Only reason why I believe so is because a lot of people will start with 1 merit to see if they'll get noticed, and from there, they'd either buy merits from other people or farm shit from their other accounts to commence their artificial rank up missions. So in a sense, what I'm just trying to suppose is that it's hard to either prove or just stop with 1 merit, and yes, you're right, they do look pathetic lol.

In any case, I only meant to make this statement to discourage people from creating alts for any reason besides device convenience. You go out there creating 4 different accounts so you have higher chances of getting merited, and in turn getting into signature campaigns when you can pretty much just combine the efforts you make for those accounts into a single one and not sacrifice the quality of your posts or better yet, be able to provide more constructive content to the forum.

So even though I may have overstated to some, I still believe that I said the right thing here, and I'd die on this hill if I have to LOL.