It's even worse than invite trading.
Good
Bad
Not sure / not bothered
Square
BT Rep: +4
It's even worse than invite trading.
Poster
BT Rep: +4
Definitely bad for many reasons, the only justification is if the site is closed for invites and even then its still not a good idea.
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BT Rep: +13
I voted for "not sure" because aside from the obvious drawback of trading (it means breaking the tracker rules, after all) there can be advantages as well.
Say you have an account you don't use (anymore) at a tracker that runs close to its user-limit or doesn't have any invites available. You don't help the tracker if you don't participate and you have taken someone else's slot who might have been active. Trading an account like this can be beneficial to three parties: you (because you get something in return), the tracker (because it gains one more active member) and the other users of that tracker (because one more member means one more to seed to or leech from).
The same with buffered accounts. Creating them took the seeding away from other users who might've been struggling because of it. The only reason for a largely buffered account is to slowly use that buffer up and that in turn can help other users maintain their own ratios.
There's no obvious drawback of trading on the first look, trading accounts has the same risks as trading or giving out invites after all. There's always the chance that you invite someone who gets banned for cheating or other reasons and the same is true for traders.
There is of course one large and very global problem caused by account trading. It wouldn't matter if a single person does this or a very small group - but trading accounts has become so popular that it influences the day-to-day business of trackers. Many offered accounts come with large buffers and I cannot imagine that those were built for other reasons than for trading the account away. So, what happens daily is that a multitude of people use their expensive seedboxes to create some TB buffer and influence the whole tracker community with it. While this power-seeding may result in faster downloads for the single user, I believe it to be harmful in the long run. This is in my opinion the main and only drawback of trading but not because of the concept but because of the popularity.
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my opinion
'The Steelmen'
BT Rep: +8
i have never traded an account and i never will if i dont use it anymore i give it away for free as dreamtracker would say
Welsh Bhoy
BT Rep: +5
I would never trade an account or give one away....I would rather the account get deleted naturally as i have done with many already.
By trading an account or giving it away you are breaking the rules of that site but more than this you are disrespecting and abusing the person who invited you. You don't really know where that account would end up....it may be traded on 3 or 4 times and end up with a cheater. Who gets the blame for that...not one of the traders but the only decent person - the one who gave the invite in the first place.
This is why some people, including myself are wary about giving invites to anyone who may be a trader. The invite/account is not a commodity. It is for your use only!!!
Poster
BT Rep: +50
Very Bad
(o.o)
BT Rep: +8
You couldn't say this better... I just need to completely agree with youOriginally Posted by ghurka
BT Rep: +8
yes, and i love your signature
Shut up u Lovely Boi
BT Rep: +100
Was there any point in this poll after all?
And it was started by FST Staff.
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