Here's my take, though it be ever so humble... nowhere do the website's rules say "If you have any items that are likely duped on any of your characters, leave immediately." Heavily duped items aren't welcome to be traded here. There's a list. Those items on his guide are on that list. But they're also on the 'do not trade' lists. Should we delete them, too? They makes reference to them, and clearly imply that these are highly powerful items.
The Mods have passed judgement when it comes to mentioning dupes/hacks/exploits/bugs case by case, time and time again. But what's to stop someone from suggesting that somehow obtaining a potentially duped item would aid the character build they're outlining?
Oh please. I guess you weren't around when Blobs posted his first and second BvC guides? Both had posts by Hal and both ended up being huge flamewars because of the clear suggesting of 32020s and classical dupes in them.
Also, in all the time I've been here, I've never seen a guide with dupes in them that wasn't locked or at least not stickied quite quickly, such as Camden's smiter guide.
Should we pretend that these things don't exist, just because they can't change hands on dii.net? He's just saying they'd help the build, I think everyone knows that they can't be traded for/sold here.
Again, that's not the point. The point is that the forum's common standpoint, at least up to now, has been that no guide with suggestions of dupes would ever be stickied. So why make the exception here?
Basically, whatever the Mods say goes. That's why they're always around, to pass judgement on these sensitive issues. And this thread has been around for quite some time, so I'd say that they've passed judgement already.
If I wanted to be a meanie, I would say that I don't give a damn about your opinion. And that's just about how it might be. This is because you are not a mod, thus you have no word whatsoever on whether a topic is qualified or not. Not that I would, either. I'm simply pointing out the fact that a guide suggesting dupes is actually in the guides sticky which has never happened before and I would like to have some really good reasoning to the recent change unless it was a simple "I didn't see it" in which case I'm quite ... shocked.
I also think it'd be just plain silly to completely forget these items are out there, though they're not welcome to be dealt here. Pretending won't make them go away. And heck, HRs and Baals eyes can be mentioned freely, obtaining them can be spoken of freely, and they've been deemed free to trade here. And in truth, odds are they're duped. How many times have you seen a BOTD suggested for any particular build? Countless! Now how many times have you seen a Zod drop? Defense rests.
That's not the point. And by the way, a charm with such perfect stats is much, much rarer than any rune and also much, much more valuable.
It's not about forgetting their existence, it's about the standing point of the mod in a topic discussing dupes. Such topics are quickly closed and all links to pictures of dupes are always deleted. Why so, if "they should not be forgotten"? Give me a good reasoning for that except that it breaks the rules and you are good.
Also, if you haven't noticed by now, unlike high runes, 32020s are on the Do Not Trade-list, as you mentioned. That makes the two extremely different in the eyes of the mods and the admins. This should make you realize that it's not about them being duped or not, but some other fact. It's a common known fact that almost all if not all 32020s in the market are dupes. Yes, there are individuals with self-found 32020s but the amount of such 32020s goes into the 0.00x%-region if you look at how many of self-found 32020s there are among all of them. Not that anyone sane would ever trade a self-found 32020 either.
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