WTS Forum?

It's entirely to keep people honest. It's set up this way because people won't just be able to make one account after the next to scam people in the BST section after they've been banned. Yes, some of it is relative to "earning it" but it's mostly about proving your not solely here for the BST forum.

You can't keep them all out but imagine how many more there'd be if we just allowed everyone in.

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Originally Posted by itzfrank

It's entirely to keep people honest. It's set up this way because people won't just be able to make one account after the next to scam people in the BST section after they've been banned. Yes, some of it is relative to "earning it" but it's mostly about proving your not solely here for the BST forum.

You can't keep them all out but imagine how many more there'd be if we just allowed everyone in.

That is an incorrect statement. There are other tools in place to monitor multiple user access. It has nothing to do with the WTS forums.

Also, we have a number of reputable members who are primarily (some solely) here for transactions.

Almost every forum I've been a part of has set up a requirement like this at one point or another because of people being dishonest at one point or another in their BST forum. I based my logic from that. If it's set up this way for another reason, clearly I just assumed and apologize for the ignorance.

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Originally Posted by itzfrank

Almost every forum I've been a part of has set up a requirement like this at one point or another because of people being dishonest at one point or another in their BST forum. I based my logic from that. If it's set up this way for another reason, clearly I just assumed and apologize for the ignorance.

No apology needed.

It is set up to inhibit scammers, dishonest people, and those trying to take advantage of our membership. In that, you are correct.

Where I disagreed with you is in your statements that "It's set up this way because people won't just be able to make one account after the next to scam people in the BST section after they've been banned." and "it's mostly about proving your not solely here for the BST forum".