It involves doing silly things with large amounts of gold. In general, most people don't do silly things with large amounts of gold. If you do, we might think that you somehow obtained that gold in a way where you don't care about it like a normal player (for example: used fraudulent credentials to purchase Platinum and then used that Plat to buy a lot of gold and are now doing silly things with it). To help curb such activity, we have systems that detect malicious silliness and put a trade lock on involved accounts to keep the gold from getting out into the economy. Sometimes the systems we use to detect silly behavior can score a false positive and put a trade lock on an account where someone was being silly, but not maliciously so. Then, they will need to contact our Support Team and have them review their account and possibly remove the trade ban. Sometimes they get confused and think that posting to the forums is the same as entering a help ticket with our Support Team. It isn't and we strive to redirect them back to the Support Team in the most kind and friendly way possible.
I hope that helps you understand what all this trade lock business is about.
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