Remove migration date as a requirement

[good run]

Honestly, pretty much every thread I go on the migration date is fake. Because, it's an annoying and time consuming process which is not really needed.

Therefore I suggest you remove that requirement as no one honestly cares anymore.

 

[User]

don't even know what the original purpose of this was, but it seems useless to me to be honest.

 

[good run]

Louwtjie Why did you disagree?

 

[Louwtjie]

Louwtjie Why did you disagree?

I like to see people complain about wrong dates.

 

[Dylan]

I was told that migration date for MCM is when the name was migrated onto that account.

 

[good run]

I was told that migration date for MCM is when the name was migrated onto that account.

yea but it still doesn't matter, no one takes the date seriously so what's the point of it being there?

 

[Doge]

don't even know what the original purpose of this was, but it seems useless to me to be honest.

On February 2016, a massive lock wave happened so Mick just removed the entire MC account section. Soon after, I found out that it was based on many accounts being migrated on the same IP within a short time period. I brought up some ways to re-add the section, but I was just told it would stay removed (I was moderator at the time btw). Then when BeBosny was owner, he wanted to hear my ideas on what the best way is to prevent accounts that could get locked from being sold and prevent/reduce scams. He ended up adding it back in a new and improved way and site activity increased by a massive amount.

Originally, the MC account section was available to all users, and there was no form/thread format. But what BeBosny and I came up with was: Requiring premium, requiring users to link their accounts, requiring a form to post a thread but only if the account was linked, asking if there's a TID or not and finally, the migration date. The purpose of the migration date was so users knew how long ago the account was migrated so they knew it wouldn't get caught in another potential lock wave. 1 month or more after migration meant that the account didn't get caught by it.

Of course now there hasn't been a lock wave since 2016 and Mojang.com now uses the account creation date rather than migration date so I don't think it's needed anymore. And regarding users putting random dates, that was never a problem in the past because I used to remove all threads with blatantly incorrect dates, but after I wasn't around to enforce it anymore, nobody did so it got out of hand.

 

[good run]

On February 2016, a massive lock wave happened so Mick just removed the entire MC account section. Soon after, I found out that it was based on many accounts being migrated on the same IP within a short time period. I brought up some ways to re-add the section, but I was just told it would stay removed (I was moderator at the time btw). Then when BeBosny was owner, he wanted to hear my ideas on what the best way is to prevent accounts that could get locked from being sold and prevent/reduce scams. He ended up adding it back in a new and improved way and site activity increased by a massive amount.

Originally, the MC account section was available to all users, and there was no form/thread format. But what BeBosny and I came up with was: Requiring premium, requiring users to link their accounts, requiring a form to post a thread but only if the account was linked, asking if there's a TID or not and finally, the migration date. The purpose of the migration date was so users knew how long ago the account was migrated so they knew it wouldn't get caught in another potential lock wave. 1 month or more after migration meant that the account didn't get caught by it.

Of course now there hasn't been a lock wave since 2016 and Mojang.com now uses the account creation date rather than migration date so I don't think it's needed anymore. And regarding users putting random dates, that was never a problem in the past because I used to remove all threads with blatantly incorrect dates, but after I wasn't around to enforce it anymore, nobody did so it got out of hand.

Thank you for the backstory.

 

[Mick]

On February 2016, a massive lock wave happened so Mick just removed the entire MC account section. Soon after, I found out that it was based on many accounts being migrated on the same IP within a short time period. I brought up some ways to re-add the section, but I was just told it would stay removed (I was moderator at the time btw). Then when BeBosny was owner, he wanted to hear my ideas on what the best way is to prevent accounts that could get locked from being sold and prevent/reduce scams. He ended up adding it back in a new and improved way and site activity increased by a massive amount.

Originally, the MC account section was available to all users, and there was no form/thread format. But what BeBosny and I came up with was: Requiring premium, requiring users to link their accounts, requiring a form to post a thread but only if the account was linked, asking if there's a TID or not and finally, the migration date. The purpose of the migration date was so users knew how long ago the account was migrated so they knew it wouldn't get caught in another potential lock wave. 1 month or more after migration meant that the account didn't get caught by it.

Of course now there hasn't been a lock wave since 2016 and Mojang.com now uses the account creation date rather than migration date so I don't think it's needed anymore. And regarding users putting random dates, that was never a problem in the past because I used to remove all threads with blatantly incorrect dates, but after I wasn't around to enforce it anymore, nobody did so it got out of hand.

Interesting, thanks for the heads up.

We can remove the migration date field from the account sale forums in our next announcement since it is pretty unnecessary.

I'll move this to pending, thanks for the suggestion.

 

[Mick]

Reading my response to old suggestion threads makes me wince.

I'm not going to be making any changes to this particular part of the site at the moment, as there are other areas which deserve more focus and are moreso the direction I wish to bring MC-Market in the next few years. I want to encourage more activity in sections other than this one and so won't be making the suggested change.

Denied, thanks for the suggestion