[Denied] Stop skype

Care to explain why you prefer Skype over Discord for trading?

Skype is less anonymous. Surely you can create Skype accounts just as easy as Discord accounts perhaps, but for some reason people seem to stick to Skype accounts for a longer period of time than Discord accounts, so if someone scams it's way easier to recognise him later on.

 

[President]

Skype is less anonymous. Surely you can create Skype accounts just as easy as Discord accounts perhaps, but for some reason people seem to stick to Skype accounts for a longer period of time than Discord accounts, so if someone scams it's way easier to recognise him later on.

This is fair tbh, to add to that: imposter-scamming is probably much more common on discord than it is on Skype. Statistically, if Users would be distributed exclusively over either platform you'd expect fewer scams to happen. So I guess it's a weigh-off between two or three things:
Discord: More account security + more popular/easy to create
Skype: Less anonymity + more precedent in this community

 

[S]

Skype is less anonymous. Surely you can create Skype accounts just as easy as Discord accounts perhaps, but for some reason people seem to stick to Skype accounts for a longer period of time than Discord accounts, so if someone scams it's way easier to recognise him later on.

Most of this is anecdotal. Also, I don't think it's largely people sticking with their Skype accounts longer, more so, Skype's age in the market, and how much longer it has been available.

I do agree with the notion that it's likely easier to scam on Discord, due to the ease in which people can change their usernames/tags. However, that's a moot point, as it's not relevant here.

 

Discord is shit if it comes for trading. Contact limit is just 1000 people, I personally fullfilled that in less than 2 months, after that you can't even send requests or even messages to people who didn't add you first.
Discord servers arent really a solution as they get taken down by JaGeX


No support to this change

 

[Bodybagdyou]

i forget skype is still a thing sometimes

 

We aren't looking to ban the advertisement of Skype on Sythe, as it is a free market and some people do use the platform still.

However we will be having it removed from the contact details section on user profiles along with a few other antiquated forms of communication.