Originally Posted by
Creati0n
[*]IT'S THE FOOLPROOF METHOD
Yeah, yeah, I know this one's been heard a lot, but it doesn't hurt to reiterate this: a forum post is the only documentation we (the staff) have access to that cannot be doctored by a regular user. PMs can be hard-deleted and screenshots from Discord or in-game can be altered/edited, but a forum post is forever. 
Forum posts may be forever, but scammers don't care about evidence against them. You can ban their 100 alts all you want, they'll create 100 more. But you won't get people's money back.
Originally Posted by
Creati0n
[*]THE SYSTEM PROTECTS THE BUYERS
The Market Squad do their absolute best to verify where your TC sources come from, which is exactly why we require you to remake your selling thread every five days -- we like to make sure you aren't farming boosters, gaining TC through illegitimate sales ingame or other means.
We make sure that those duels you do are corroborated through games you played in your game history; we make sure that that 300,000TC you got from user123 was because you sold him a nice texture set; we make sure that your latest 17,000,000TC from imahacker69 wasn't from him exploiting TC into the economy.
The list could go on, but the point of this is to keep our sellers in check!
Nobody would try to create a thread on the TC selling board if they earned TC illegaly, they would just sell tc in game or via discord and you guys would never know about it.
Which is what happens all the time. Proof of that is me getting banned while Shmevin wasn't banned, despite the fact that we sold TC to the same person at about the same time. And Shmevin wouldn't get banned, had he not admitted to it to help me in the discussion about this rule and my ban.
Originally Posted by
Creati0n
[*]THE SYSTEM PROTECTS THE SELLERS (yes, it does!)
reference: link
A little more than a year ago, multiple accounts of well-known users were hijacked and had a significant portion of their TC and items sold on the market -- completely unchecked. About $500 worth of items and TC were documented stolen, and it's definitely safe to assume that their were unreported incidents that occurred in PMs or in-game that we just couldn't find.
Now, with the current Toricredits board system in place, we ensure that you are the person who is requesting that your thread be put up to sell off your accumulated wealth -- not some scummy asshole who's accessed your account and wants to sell off all your items and TC before you even get the chance to report it.[/list]
No, it really doesn't. Even ignoring the fact that all it did was getting 2 honest TC sellers banned.
If somebody hijacks an account, they won't try to create a thread(it would be the dumbest move everrrrrr), they'll just sell everything in game or in discord. So you guys won't have any chance to catch them before it's done.
As far as I know, if this system was in place a year ago, it wouldn't prevent any of the scams that happened. Accounts would still get hijacked, TC would still get sold in irc or in game or wherever they were sold. No scammer would ever try to create a TC selling thread. That's why they're scammers, they don't care about your rules!
Originally Posted by
Creati0n
To close, yes, there are reasons on as to why we have these rules and guidelines in place. You may not appreciate them when they're annoying and you have to wait on your thread to be opened, but rest assured that this system was implemented entirely for the benefit of the community -- it's definitely more work on us since this system's been put into place.
I agree that this system is annoying and that it's more work for you and everybody else... except scammers! It's only becoming easier for them to scam people, because honest sellers are getting banned or prohibited to sell tc, while scammers get to offer the most convenient deals which are the most likely to be accepted by unknowing people.