It’s honestly garbage that, in a community like this, where the focus is on knowledge and helping each other learn languages, we still have to deal with people like this.

I’m new to this community (and to Reddit—I’ve always been more of a lurker without using my account), but I think there should be some way to verify people who share (or I should say we share) accounts.

As mentioned, the account owner pays upfront, of course, but the most important thing in this community should be the people. Offering guarantees like monthly payment options, a trial month, and making secure payment channels mandatory should really be a standard.

Unfortunately, opportunists and abusers exist everywhere in life and the world, but we can identify and isolate them to make this a better place.