Wow forums are blowing up again...this time it's win trading...

[Vyndree]

Yea, we know a few friends who are up in a panic. There's talk about people who mass-sell arena teams for money (which is not against the rules, btw) are getting hit with the "exploitation of the economy" banstick, which I think is quite unreasonable given the amount of blue posts around that say that selling SPOTs/POINTs are ok (though wintrading is not).

Even moreso, I feel bad for the people who join teams that have been wintraded in the past without their knowledge, or who left a team that later was wintraded without them on it. Apparently these folks are getting hit with the banstick as well.

I would agree about people who just bought a team that someone traded on in the past should not be banned...

Oh I should've probably elaborated on that point... I have a friend who was told by some random person to "hold on to" his team while he logged onto an alt. The guy never showed his face again. It was some scrub 1400's 2v2 team.

Who knows what was done to that team prior to my friend getting it? *shrug* We don't know, but we saw no harm in using it (months after the guy gave it to him) to get him a few points each week. He's really new to PvP, and we figured having it already at 1400's would help him get a bit more morale when he's first learning since we'd be fighting other scrub teams. Should he be banned for it? Probably not -- and, it should be noted, he hasn't yet. I'm just reading all of these stories about people who bought what they thought was a legitimately leveled team and then get the banstick months later... and I just hope that's not the case with my friend's "gifted" 2v2 team.

In any case, that was my point -- I totally agree that people buying knowingly win-traded teams are as bad as the people participating in the win-trading. I'm just sad to see so many reports of innocents who got caught in the crosshairs.

... of course, who is really innocent on the wowforums?