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It isn't forcing ex-staff to use 2FA. It's requiring 2FA in return for the privilege of displaying a rank which shows both trust and tenure as a respectable member - making new users, or users who maybe aren't as savvy at monitoring people's habits or trading history in particular, vulnerable to being scammed.
 
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Can we get some more staff (possibly admin) input on this now? I think there's been plenty of discussion on it, the advantages clearly outweigh the (very minor) disadvantages.

Govind is all for it but he can't just do it. Gotta get Richard or Matt (I'm assuming) to do it.
 
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It isn't forcing ex-staff to use 2FA. It's requiring 2FA in return for the privilege of displaying a rank which shows both trust and tenure as a respectable member - making new users, or users who maybe aren't as savvy at monitoring people's habits or trading history in particular, vulnerable to being scammed.

Well, yeah, it is. You're basically just arm-twisting. "Enable this, if you don't, you lose the rank you earned." Why are certain ranks suddenly becoming conditional?

If this goes through it becomes a slippery slope. Donors have a rank that makes them appear more trustworthy than the average user. Does a fun rank make some users look at someone differently too? Probably. Better have checks for those ranks as well, right?
 
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Staff members are notably more trustworthy than donors..
 
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Staff members are notably more trustworthy than donors..

Are you sure? Subjective and user-dependent, really. We're dealing with how a rank is interpreted by a stupid member. Who knows.
 
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Donor rank - you have a paypal with money in it
Staff - you were trusted as an official staff member

Newcomers are going to trust a staff member more so than a donor
 
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Donor rank - you have a paypal with money in it
Staff - you were trusted as an official staff member

Newcomers are going to trust a staff member more so than a donor

My point is that they're likely both going to be trusted more than the average user. Where is the line drawn? Rules shouldn't be added to keep ranks that have been earned, they should never be conditional.

Just let people use their own discretion on enabling security measures on their accounts.
 
Bumping this because Ryan (Ex-Admin and Highly Trusted) was recently banned for scamming Ikov GP? Why the fuck hasn't anything been done about this? The person that was scammed was PM'd over Sythe and was still scammed because there are people that are obviously being hacked somehow. Something needs to be done about this.
 
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Bumping this because Ryan (Ex-Admin and Highly Trusted) was recently banned for scamming Ikov GP? Why the fuck hasn't anything been done about this? The person that was scammed was PM'd over Sythe and was still scammed because there are people that are obviously being hacked somehow. Something needs to be done about this.
Oooh dear...

Scottay's account was seemingly recently hacked and used to scam with also. Both ex-staff.
 
Bumping this because Ryan (Ex-Admin and Highly Trusted) was recently banned for scamming Ikov GP? Why the fuck hasn't anything been done about this? The person that was scammed was PM'd over Sythe and was still scammed because there are people that are obviously being hacked somehow. Something needs to be done about this.

It's pretty apparent that many people here refuse to use sound reasoning to make easy decisions. As long as they have this mindset, nothing will change.
 
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It's pretty apparent that many people here refuse to use sound reasoning to make easy decisions. As long as they have this mindset, nothing will change.

I agree, some seem to be vehemently against this idea yet I still fail to see a good reason raised by them.
 
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Well I just dropped a PM to Govind (seeing as he and the other tech admins are the only ones that can actually do anything about this suggestion).

See what happens...
 
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3 (?) were hacked this week alone. im in favor of it. all staff, and honestly everyone else, should 2fa up

I support this suggestion as well. I also believe everyone should be 2FA
 
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2FA for everyone would never happen. Why would additional, unnecessary obstacles to joining be placed on new members?
 
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2FA for everyone would never happen. Why would additional, unnecessary obstacles to joining be placed on new members?

What I meant is not -> everyone should be forced to have 2FA. I just think people should have 2FA if they want to be more secured ^_^ I strongly recommend it.
If it was forced, than I agree with you. It would just be an obstacle for new members. Members should have the right to choose if they want this obstacle or not



Now.. Concerning the ex-staffs:

There is a bunch of inactive ex-staff accounts that are just waiting to be hacked.. so it would be better if they would have 2FA or be SRB. When they would come back in the community, they could remove it and choose to have 2FA or not.
 
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It's pretty apparent Sythe has a security flaw somewhere you mean
 
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