I would argue that if you create accounts with a recovery feature then you are opening yourself up to this responsibility, whether you like it or not.
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I would argue that if you create accounts with a recovery feature then you are opening yourself up to this responsibility, whether you like it or not.
Is this true of Reddit (Facebook, Twitter etc.) as well? For example if you use the reset password feature on Reddit, should it be incumbent upon them to make sure there was no agreement to exchange the account?
There is no intent for accounts to be transferable. The exchange of accounts is beyond the scope of account recovery and nobody has agreed to support it.
I also didn't ask Steem Inc to butt in my private deal with @kibria365.
I don't give a rat's ass about Reddit and Facebook. This is the blockchain, it's a completely different animal. Apples and oranges.
What I would expect (I am not a lawyer) matters is if accounts are considered transferable property or not. While technically possible to be transferred (it's impossible to prevent people from sharing keys or passwords), there is no intent for accounts to be transferred from person to person. This is true for both Steem and traditional account systems.
If accounts are transferable property, then password resets are potentially seizure of property, and we basically can't have account recovery. We can't support both account recovery and accounts being transferable. One of them has to go.