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I think you need to at least explain your comment and let the users of Poal understand when and under what circumstances you will transfer the ownership of an account.

For those of you who don't know what I am talking about:

In requested that the gabara account be transferred to him. I laughed when I saw the post by Dizzbit because my initial reaction was "Yeah we would never do that. That is a horrible idea."

Well imaging my surprise when I see this comment from PMYB2:

Well considering the issues that I've had with that account and the fact that I've handed it too someone before. If you really want it, I'd need you to come on mumble and have a conversation with me before I considered handing it out to someone.

The important bit being:

I've handed it too someone before.

why would you ever hand one persons account to another person for any reason? Can you please explain your thinking and logic on this one? Why would this ever be a good idea? I'm a big fan of transparency... it keeps us all honest. Even if you did this with the best intentions it seems to go against the concept of transparency. How would users know that suddenly someone different is posting under an established account? Even if unintentional, how would this do anything except confuse, deceive and mislead the users of Poal?

@PMYB2 I think you need to at least explain your comment and let the users of Poal understand when and under what circumstances you will transfer the ownership of an account. For those of you who don't know what I am talking about: In [this post](https://poal.co/s/AskPoal/41406) @Dizzbit requested that the gabara account be transferred to him. I laughed when I saw the post by Dizzbit because my initial reaction was "Yeah we would never do that. That is a horrible idea." Well imaging my surprise when I see this comment from PMYB2: >> Well considering the issues that I've had with that account and the fact that I've handed it too someone before. If you really want it, I'd need you to come on mumble and have a conversation with me before I considered handing it out to someone. The important bit being: >> **I've handed it too someone before.** @PMYB2 why would you ever hand one persons account to another person for any reason? Can you please explain your thinking and logic on this one? Why would this ever be a good idea? I'm a big fan of transparency... it keeps us all honest. Even if you did this with the best intentions it seems to go against the concept of transparency. How would users know that suddenly someone different is posting under an established account? Even if unintentional, how would this do anything except confuse, deceive and mislead the users of Poal?

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[–] • 8 pts (edited )

Okay so story time I guess, gabara way back when asked that I give him the account I verified identity and reset the password for him, when poal was first started we hundred and hundreds of accounts registered and not used so if someone verified their identity with me I would reset an inactive(as in zero posts zero comments zero votes) account password for people. I don’t make a habit out of it and that comment in particular was more jest than anything else. If that person happened to be gabara and wanted a password reset and could prove it I would be more than happy to help.

The only circumstances I would hand an account to someone who didn’t register it if it has zero activity(ie: no posts no comments no votes) and is more than 30 days old. I hope that clears things up.

Edit: I did a similar thing for 9-11 adding this for transparency

[–] • 1 pt

Thanks for the response and transparency PMYB2! This is why I am here and not somewhere else.

Just make sure I understand properly... Someone from Voat that was not Gabara came here in the very beginning and registered a bunch of user account that were well established on Voat but not here. Then the real Gabara from Voat showed up and asked for the Poal Gabara account be transferred? He (she? I don't know who the fuck gabara is IRL) then proved their identity, probably by posting on Voat under that account, and you then transfered the account?

[–] • 3 pts

In addition to proving the identity on voat I asked that it be discussed with me on a server that I control the hardware and software so that I can be sure no Tom foolery is happening.

[–] • 1 pt

Thanks again for the response. This clarification sets me at ease. It seems like you were trying to reduce deception and misleading content. I think your intentions were good but I still think this is a really bad idea... Password recovery is one thing, but that is not what this really is...

I think allowing someone to claim an account because they have the same username on a different site is a bad precedent to set.

I know we have close ties to Voat but this seems like a slippery slope.

[–] • 5 pts

One more thing, considering the title is a bit sensationalist and not completely accurate I’d appreciate if you’d edit it to be more accurate but you do you.

[–] • 2 pts (edited )
  • I want to be reasonable on this. I can't edit the title anymore but if you think the title is inappropriate I would be willing to delete the entire post if you are willing to post a explanation and an official policy regarding account transfers.

I would also be ok with you using your admin powers to alter the title to something we mutually agree on.

[–] • 2 pts

I admit that the title is a bit sensationalist and I would be willing to tone it down for you but I think the time limit to edit the title has already passed.

As I understand it right now though the title is completely accurate. Can you clarify? My understanding is that someone not the Voat Gabara made the Poal Gabara account and you transfered the Poal Gabara account to the owner of the Voat Gabara account. Is this not the case? Are we still confused as to what happened?

[–] • 2 pts

Well I suppose it is true but it just sounds sensantionalist and I think it at least should be specified that the accounts transferred have zero activity.

[–] • 2 pts

Agreed... but I did not know that when I made the post. Your comments added these facts to the discussion.

[–] • 0 pt

I think the time limit to edit the title has already passed.

That's correct. The edit time limit is set to 5 minutes for the title.

We wont edit users stuff (this is not faggit and we're not spez).

On the other hand we can flair posts submitted in default subs.

[–] • 1 pt

I considered flaring the title, but decided I would rather people see the claim and hopefully look at the comments and see the details of what happened. Let me know what you think.

[–] • 3 pts

Dafuq??