As a long time user, it sounds like you would be greatly impacted by such a ban. Watch out! If you at all depend on eBay for your livelyhood, have a backup plan or parallel path. eBay is shit.
strange seeing all these old inactive accounts suddenly posting in this thread.
its like somebody actually took the time to create multiple accounts, to astroturf a given thread in the future. pretty pathetic use of time if you ask me.
I comment more on these types of threads (random banning by big corp who never provides reasons) than the random software project ones because these are more substantial
you can also take the opposite meaning from this signal. I haven't posted in 75 days, but a thread about ebay screwing people over was enough to get me to login.
I've also been permabanned from eBay. Buyer for 10+ years, occasional seller. Went to sell something alongside lots of listings for the same thing. Permabanned my account and my parent's accounts as I had logged in from their house previously. No recourse. "Banned without appeal" they called it. "Because of the nature of the ban we cannot tell you anything about it". Many frustrating calls.
Years later, my only thesis is it was due to having HTML in my product description, I linked to the vendor website. Maybe that's against the rules or something.
I still have not found the HN-like community that gets cryptocurrencies. Maybe it's just being created today. People say Twitter but it's still pretty meme oriented. /r/ethfinance is ok but not enough content. Zero Knowledge podcast is solid but podcasts are one way communication. And the forums for cryotocurrency developers are beyond my level of tech knowledge.
I wonder if at some point anthropologists will even study "tech's rejection of crypto" as a rift that
became something more.
Oh, we “get” crypto. What we also “get”, and what crypto people don’t, are the systems crypto is trying to replace and why the aspects crypto people think are flaws (centralization, arbitration, ability to reverse transactions) are all features
"The ongoing growth in decentralized financial ecosystems, peer-to-peer payment activity and obscured blockchain ledgers presents additional risks to the American people and our foreign partners."
Wow, the Secret Service started up their own cryptocurrency team!
At what point do platforms like GiveSendGo anonymize payments for real? (realize this is potentially a leading question about cryptocurrency mixers, but maybe there's a way to implement this with regular currencies)
I'm all for traceability, but I can't see donating anything through GiveSendGo if all my data is going to be leaked. Same with Kickstarter. They're just creating a honeypot/target for hackers.
> Twitter refuses to this day to take down tweets that include personal data, despite their policy on hacked data.
It's actually even worse than if they just never enforced their policy on hacked data. What they actually do is selectively enforce it, apparently based on which side of the political spectrum would benefit. For example, remember that they did take down all of those tweets about what was on Hunter Biden's laptop, citing that policy as justification.
Here's what Tim O'Reilly had to say about web3: "We won't know what Web3 is until after the current bubble pops — because we're in the middle of a bubble, just like the dot-com bubble, where there's all kinds of crazy startups getting outrageous valuations, with less to show for it."
