Seeking Opinions on Multi Account Cases Across Different Signature Campaigns

[AakZaki]

First of all I would like to ask for the opinion of all members who have experience handling multi account cases.
When you find, for example, accounts 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 or even more and they are all active, and they all participate in various ongoing signature campaigns, but all of those accounts are operated by one person, what do you think should happen if they get caught?

Examples:

• Connected Wallets
• There is abuse of Merit because they tend to accumulate merit among those connected accounts.
• But it was not found that they participated in the same Bounty or Campaign.

Do you think they deserve Red Trust, or just a Neutral Tag, or something else?

• Because in my opinion, they take away the opportunity from other honest users who want to participate.
• If such a situation occurs, I am sure their posts will not be of quality, and will instead be spammed in megathreads. I agree with what nutildah said.

When people run multiple accounts, their IQ-per-post is lowered in direct proportion to how many accounts they are running.

Please share your opinions (Especially DT1 or DT2), as I'm sure I'll be able to find more accounts like this in the future.

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I have seen some of the accounts like that which were tagged red in the past, if they are cheating with merits continuously. The thing is that campaign managers may not see it bad if such users do not disobey the campaign rules and regulations but there are some people that are very greedy and use one or two or more of their alts to join the same campaign.

[yahoo62278]

If they are participating in different campaigns then no harm no foul is what has been the status quo for the last 10 years. It's the cheating that gets them in trouble. Being in same campaign, sending their alt merits, replying to themselves in threads, or whatever.

There are a couple arguments here in all honesty. As I stated above, being in different campaigns is fine and has been the way the forum has operated, but then you have some that will argue that if so n so has 3 accounts in a campaign what's the big deal if they are posting quality posts. Does it actually hurt a company?

It's an argument worth having IMO and it really comes down to post quality.

[Zoomic]

If they are participating in different campaigns then no harm no foul is what has been the status quo for the last 10 years. It's the cheating that gets them in trouble. Being in same campaign, sending their alt merits, replying to themselves in threads, or whatever.

Base on your reply, I want to ask you as an experienced forum member and a good campaign manager; how many number of accounts will one have before it is considered account farming. I know, owing an alt or a few without cheating isn't against the rule, but account farming is.
Is someone allowed to own upto 10 alts just because he isn't cheating with them?

[yahoo62278]

If they are participating in different campaigns then no harm no foul is what has been the status quo for the last 10 years. It's the cheating that gets them in trouble. Being in same campaign, sending their alt merits, replying to themselves in threads, or whatever.

Base on your reply, I want to ask you as an experienced forum member and a good campaign manager; how many number of accounts will one have before it is considered account farming. I know, owing an alt or a few without cheating isn't against the rule, but account farming is.
Is someone allowed to own upto 10 alts just because he isn't cheating with them?

I have never really seen anyone get their ass handed to them for operating multiple accounts. It's operating them in a piss poor greedy manor that gets the heat on them. Using 10 accounts in 1 campaign, spamming the forum with trash posts, account sales. Shit like that is what has gotten users red tags in the past.

As far as what is considered a farm and if it's illegal I cannot really answer. Never heard of it being illegal as it's all relevant to how the farm is being ran I suppose.

Let's be honest, there are a lot of users that depend on this forum for their livelihood. My personal opinion is that noone really needs more than 2 or 3 accounts. Trying to stay on topic and post quality posts is going to go out the window fast the more accounts 1 operates. I can barely do 25-30 posts a week most weeks from 1 account.

[CryptoHeadlineNews]

This is a very nice thread, of which I'm pretty sure whatever final resolution made on this thread, would have solved almost 80% of the issues of multi-accounting cases we have got on this forum. Because to be frankly speaking, last month "November 2025" must have been one of the highest month this forum ever recorded cases with the highest number of accounts alleged to have been connected to each other, of which in some cases, we saw threads where 10 or more accounts were alleged to have been connected through On-chain transactions between those accounts. Hence, I think the need for this debate is actually necessary. And for me, I will say I agree to what @yahoo62278 clearly stated regarding "post quality" to be the most important criteria to be considered in such scenerio.

But however, I will be glad to hear the opinion of others, since this has been a vital case many people of this forum have been found guilty lately.

[Bitcoin_Arena]

Usually the best thing to do is to report those accounts in this thread - Known Alts of any-one - A User Generated List Mk IV (2025 Q4) [MODERATED] 🤨🔬

And then use the post link as reference for a neutral tag stating how the accounts are linked to other multiple accounts. That is, if they have not cheated in any signature campaign.

Regarding merit abuse, the admin discouraged DT members from red tagging accounts that are involved in merit abuse, but a neutral should be just fine for the sake of defining the connected alt accounts. The neutral tag can help with cases of abuse in the future.

[Mrbluntzy]

how many number of accounts will one have before it is considered account farming.

Logically, when you have more than 2 accounts, it's considered account farming because based on definition, an alt account which means "alternative account" Is like a secondary account which could be a backup of your primary/main account. The alternative account could be used for some different activities that the primary account does  it do. For example, if your primary account was created to engage in discussion on some specific boards or thread and then you discovered a different niche and decided to create an alternative account which you can only be using for that specific niche.

   When you now have more than 2 accounts without any specific purpose for the account except to increase the rank of the account and sell it or use it to participate in a campaign, then it can be tagged as account farming.

[nutildah]

There are a couple arguments here in all honesty. As I stated above, being in different campaigns is fine and has been the way the forum has operated, but then you have some that will argue that if so n so has 3 accounts in a campaign what's the big deal if they are posting quality posts. Does it actually hurt a company?

Correct me if I'm wrong but its already up to each campaign manager to decide what types of accounts they want in their campaign, right? Its up to you if you want to have a no alts rule or not.

The main problem is there is currently an epidemic of purchased accounts enrolling in campaigns because they know the campaigns will still hire them even if they are tagged for account buying or being the alt of a known cheater/scammer/etc. Enrolling such accounts in campaigns is rewarding dishonest behavior for the benefit of an off-forum entity, and it makes the forum a slightly stupider place, IMHO.

When someone buys an account to participate in a campaign, its an inherently dishonest action if they don't admit it, because the new owner is taking credit for the old owner's posts and basically impersonating the old owner unbeknownst to everyone else. My personal viewpoint is that hiring such accounts for campaigns is a passive endorsement of not just account sales but dishonest behavior when it comes down to it.