Buying in-game items or money from other players, using real money?

[notyourbroom]

... I still feel like I'm being attacked a little bit. Maybe I phrased my original post badly, but I was not saying "It it okay if I do this?". Rather, I was trying to say something more like "Wow, this is something that I would expect to be outlawed, but even though Discovery has a pretty mature and well-developed set of rules, it's not mentioned anywhere! What gives?"

I can see now that I touched on a serious nerve here by bringing this up, and I'm sorry that I got some of you riled up. But seriously, I don't want to be remembered as "that idiot who wanted to sell credits to newbies" or "that n00b who wanted to buy weapons because he's too lazy to play" or any other such thing you can make up, because they're not true. I wanted to know what the admins' positions on this issue were just in the interest of having the rule (or rather, the lack of a rule) clarified, not in the interest of doing anything about it.

So let's just let this thread calmly die now, maybe. D: