Crazy Idea: Paid Alt Accounts

[Satan]

Allow an option to create a new MCM account (unlike free business accounts with the business tag) for a fee like $25 (supreme price upgrade).

Why would you want this?
Maybe you're about to post something that you don't want to point back to your main account and have people negative gang rep you.

This would give new people a way to hide their sketchy behavior!
Let's be honest. New people have it hard here on MCM to get shit started because they don't understand the (ironically) absurd professionalism that goes into making detailed thread posts and culture of MCM here. I know for a fact that not all new users are alts of scammers and that not all new users are 12 year olds starting out. They receive alot of toxicity from their first few posts because they didn't read the rules or something and a flame war happens THEN negative reputation gets slapped on them.

Give them a break. If a new user wants to risk being traced to their original account through this paid alt account option, thats on them.

But this is just a pay to alt to scam system!
Um... no... Any banned users will stay banned so their paid alts will ultimately just be money donated to MCM and banned without question.

Aka if a banned user creates an alt successfully and pays for 3 other alts. all of these alts are linked to the main new alt they made... Free money for MCM basically *cough* Mick.

 

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Allow an option to create a new MCM account (unlike free business accounts with the business tag) for a fee like $25 (supreme price upgrade).

Why would you want this?
Maybe you're about to post something that you don't want to point back to your main account and have people negative gang rep you.

This would give new people a way to hide their sketchy behavior!
Let's be honest. New people have it hard here on MCM to get shit started because they don't understand the (ironically) absurd professionalism that goes into making detailed thread posts and culture of MCM here. I know for a fact that not all new users are alts of scammers and that not all new users are 12 year olds starting out. They receive alot of toxicity from their first few posts because they didn't read the rules or something and a flame war happens THEN negative reputation gets slapped on them.

Give them a break. If a new user wants to risk being traced to their original account through this paid alt account option, thats on them.

But this is just a pay to alt to scam system!
Um... no... Any banned users will stay banned so their paid alts will ultimately just be money donated to MCM and banned without question.

Aka if a banned user creates an alt successfully and pays for 3 other alts. all of these alts are linked to the main new alt they made... Free money for MCM basically *cough* Mick.

no... just no

 

[Mick]

I feel like this feature even being there will just promote the breaking of rules on those alternate accounts. While you could easily say we could just warn them on both accounts, there is still this sense of evading the rules some users might get, and while we could still warn them, it's better to avoid it all together.
There also might be some confusion with new users as they might not know they have to pay for the alts and will start creating their own thinking that it was allowed.
Threads that do end up in flame wars or discussion that might warrant a negative reputation are generally something like exposing threads or calling someone out, and those threads generally get removed anyway. If a negative reputation is received through a normal thread, it's generally because of replies that aren't very kind or can be seen as toxic. And if that wasn't the case and the user truly did nothing wrong, they could just report it and a reputation dispute would solve the issue. People would essentially try to use this alt account as an opportunity to be toxic.
Let's say that their paid alt is found out and they are posting things they wouldn't on their main. account, I feel like arguments can be started over that with people arguing about why they bought it and just becomes a mess.
The money generated through this idea could just as easily be lost through the mess or damage it may leave.

Denied, thanks for the suggestion.