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Re: What is insubstatial sig spam?
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redsn0w
on 14/03/2015, 19:55:57 UTC

A tendency to make posts in order to boost your post count, and you have an ad in your signature, particularly one that pays you per post. There is no secret invisible line that you shouldn't cross in terms of numbers, it's mostly subjective.  

There are people who just don't post very well in general, post "too much", or don't really have anything to say, they just like to participate in the community and post. This itself is fine. But when you add an ad to these kinds of posters, it's difficult or impossible to tell if they just aren't quality posters or if they are attempting to boost their post count. I used to err on the side of caution here because I do not want to ban the former, just the latter, but too many of the latter are slipping through the cracks because it's very difficult to gauge someone's intentions. This is the main thing that has changed lately.


Commenting on that, how do you let people like MZ/redsn0w(not that I have any grudge against them) pass through your radar ?
Both of them used to post around 4-5 posts a day on average  2 months, and are now posting 30-40 posts a day only because of the sig campaign that pays per post.
They have also switched to posting to Meta a lot now, and are making helpful posts, according to me only to evade the bans happening these days


What is the problem if I post 5-10-50 times per day? I do not think the signature campaigns were banned or I am wrong? I post only if I am interested to the thread subject or have something to add (like help an user). 

Isn't this a forum for discuss about bitcoin? However thanks for your opinion, maybe the next time can you write from your main account? Thanks again.