Its sad that rule changes related to gold selling opened the door for a wide range of negative side effects but the problem is the rule change.
Hybrid was already a pretty untrustworthy place but these changes gave a financial incentive to fuck over your fellow player like never before. It turned the server into a bunch of greedy fucks over a couple candy bars worth of money.
I don't just talk, when I quit I gave all my stuff away I didn't sell it for a few dollars. When I started people helped me out but why would they now? They view that as real money now.... Making it even harder for most new players as most new players would be unwilling to buy gold from someone via Paypal, etc.
People need to stop cheerleading repeative bad ideas that are clearly hurting the server, for the benefit of a very select few.