I posted this a couple days ago and it got closed and when I pmed a mod asking why it was closed I got the impression that he thought I was asking for this to not be against the rules.
My suggestion is to
ADD the provision to the trading rules thread under "illegal trades" that offering or "trading" free items in the trading grounds is against the rules because, presently, it isn't there (
http://forums.d2jsp.org/info.php?p=6 ). And I know it is against the rules because when I pmed a mod about it he explained that scammers use this technique to get people in game and scam them. So ya... add it to the rules thread.
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