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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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[–] • 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.